What's so great about Shawn/Taker - Bad Blood 97?

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

Wow. People piss and moan when HBK no sells. Now they piss and moan when he does, and he's been selling like that since 1991!!!

Have you read the thread? Ray is pretty much the only guy bashing it.

I was just mentioning the dozens....and DOZENS (lol) of threads in WWE Folder about HBK's lack of selling as a face.

 

Then I hear that he OVER-SELLS as a heel.

 

It's just funny that there's no happy medium here.

[godthedog]

people complain about his *no-selling*: i.e., the kip-up. they don't complain about his *lack of selling*. there's a pronounced difference.

 

and shawn DID cartoonishly oversell in this match. i remember one point where undertaker punched him & he flew back something like 4 feet and fell on the ground. that is not "i'm gonna make it look like it really hurts," that's "i'm going to flop around as much as i possibly can." in places, it seriously looked like slapstick, not wrestling.

 

that said, i still love the match, even though it's pretty slow as well. good, strong story, & the way shawn got out of the cage was genius.

[Guest wildpegasus]

Hate this match. I like some of Undertaker and Michael's work but not this. I don't think I could possably sit through it a second time.

 

To add to this discussion:

 

What's greater -- Shawn Michael's adrenaline or Undertaker's zombie powers?

[snuffbox]

american wrestling IS cartoonish. this was a great american wrestling match.

[Tawren]

What's greater -- Shawn Michael's adrenaline or Undertaker's zombie powers?

Zombie powers.

[Guest Ray]

american wrestling IS cartoonish.

Horseshit, I declare!

 

There are plenty of great, non-cartoonish US wrestling matches.

 

See Benoit, Chris.