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Select Answers: Wrestling tropes, Santos Escobar, Denver PPV
🕑 Added 2025-11-21 17:00:08 +0000 UTCWelcome to Select Answers, a feature that provides some of the answers to questions that were posed to Sean Ross Sapp in the most recent Fightful Weekly Q&A Podcast. The show drops every week on Fightful Select for subscribers.
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What’s your most hated wrestling trope? I was never been a fan of the trademark Hogan “Look at the crowd shocked face” bit.
I'll give you a couple. One from a wrestling perspective and one from a reaction perspective.
I loathe the "OH MY GOD I CAN'T BELIEVE THEY KICKED OUT OF THIS MOVE THAT NEVER FINISHES ANYONE" face. Drives me nuts, man. Do something different.
From a wrestling perspective, it's one of the most senseless, overdone spots. Person 1 does a shoulderblock, knocks their opponent to the ground, looks at them, and hits the ropes. This just sets up the drop down for the other guy. What move was person 1 doing that caused them to run away from their opponent with their shoulders on the mat? A people's elbow??? A rolling thunder? That cool little forearm smash where Stone Cold would hit the ropes and go "you son...of...a.... BITCH" before doing it? It makes no sense!!!
He was backstage at least once at WWE Raw, but I haven't heard much of anything else for him. It's surprising to me that he hasn't been used as of yet, because I heard he was making very good money to come back to the company. I would have tried to strike while the iron was hot with his buzz, but they didn't seem to see it that way. They might still have substantial creative plans for him, it just wasn't immediately upon him re-signing.
Hi Sean do you see denver getting a aew ppv or wwe ple
I'm kind of shocked that they haven't had one in so long. When Will Washington was still doing Grapsody, that was something that he would mention often. I never heard a specific reason as to why companies don't take PPV events there. They seem to have nice amenities and I've loved the city when I visited. Hopefully Will pushes for one there. Maybe it's an issue of very little local talent being from there.
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Nope!
Dick Burns
Is it possible that the lack of major events in Denvwr is due to the drastic difference in climate due to being at high altitudes?
John Thee Punisher
I hate the wrestling trope of a wrestler picking up someone fur a delayed move and the other wrestler getting wide eyed and shaking their head in fear and panic while saying "No, no, no!". In kayfabe it's a combat sport and it's their dream job yet experience genuine terror when getting slammed lol. Just one of those tropes I think is silly and overdone, even for heels.
