AEW Bans All Their 'Wrestlers' Moves-Moxley Plumbing Is Really Screwed

[jimbob007]

Fightful Select has obtained a document created by AEW regarding moves/actions that are now banned or restricted as the company is adopting a new health and safety protocol.While several people in AEW have seen it, there are several wrestlers who haven’t.

Banned things include “unprotected chair shots to the head, shots to the back of the head, buckle bombs and blind moves backward into the turnbuckle, fencing responses (unnatural position of arms following a concussion), seizure sells, spitting, bleeding in the crowd, weapons or projectiles in the crowd, taking drinks or food from guests in the crowd, or physical contact with the crowd.”

Here is a list of moves and actions that have to be approved by coaches/officials:

“- Spots and bumps on the ring apron and outside

– Table/ladder/chair spots in and out of the ring (Only allowed with padding)

– Any elevated spots outside of the barricades (dives and ladder spots on stage, around the arena, and other places outside of the ring)

– All piledriver/tombstone variations, including: sit down drivers, inverted/poison hurricarana and vertebreakers

– High-risk dives or top rope moves (450, 630, double moonsaults, SSP, etc.) Intentional bleeding (of any sort, not just blading)

– Throwing people into/through/over ring steps, commentary table, bell table, or guardrails/barricades

– Chairs, pipes, kendo sticks, hammers, ring bells, bats, chains, title belts, etc.

– Thumbtacks, skewers, barbed wire, and other sharp/puncturing objects, aerosol sprays, or liquids

– Throwing any weapons or objects- chairs, etc.

– Choking/strangling with hands or a weapon or hanging spots

– Injury spots or angles, whether or not medical is involved/called to the ring

– Any physicality in the crowd or crowd brawling

– Any physicality involving “referees, managers, extras, celebrities, or special guests.”

https://www.ewrestlingnews.com/news/...-need-approval

[jimbob007]

Not sure how you can teach pretty much an entire roster of spot monkeys & gore hounds to actually wrestle-a lot of these guys have spent 10-20 years doing their trampoline flips & cutting themselves to pieces.

[H00J]

Lold hard at “seizure sells”


Tell that to Matt hardy after Sammy threw him off the crane

Oh wait

[robreynolds1234]

Yeah about time they had to do something like that, with all the regular injuries to their top stars.

[yieldtonothing]

Rip aew.

[havoc00]

welp thats probably it for me watching, looks like warner cut the balls off

[jimbob007]

welp thats probably it for me watching, looks like warner cut the balls off

Time Warner Standards & practices strike again bro.

[squat_blaster]

So basically we’re left with Sting and Jericho

[JUSA]

Some of those guys might want to learn how to wrestle? I don’t see these rules working against FTR, for example.

They’ll still do it - but with approval, so they aren’t constantly stepping on each other’s dicks. No reason the opening match with The Best Friends should kill the main event, doing the same big spots.

[Deathstroke]

So basically we’re left with Sting and Jericho

Given and taken many a chair shots to the head in their respective careers.

[SmithMachineGuy]

Seizure sells is sometimes necessary like when JTG had to sell the Cobra.




"Oh, the venom!"

That move did end JTG's career though. Maybe its best to be banned.

[jimbob007]

So basically we’re left with Sting and Jericho

MJF, Punk & Bryan. Sting is doing nothing but diving through tables & other crap & Jericho loves cutting himself to pieces-just not as much as Moxley.

[jimbob007]

Some of those guys might want to learn how to wrestle? I don’t see these rules working against FTR, for example.

They’ll still do it - but with approval, so they aren’t constantly stepping on each other’s dicks. No reason the opening match with The Best Friends should kill the main event, doing the same big spots.

Too late now-they are so embedded in the video game, acrobatic, trampoline stuff. It is all they have ever know-they have zero concept of psychology & how to actually work a proper wrestling match like Punk, Bryan & MJF do. Jericho can do it-even though he has made it clear he doesn't want to for years. Olivier can do it when he is in there with a DB or Okada. But what else do the Cucamonga Kids know how to do, or all the young guys who have copied them & others like them?

[Cleveland33]

So basically we’re left with Sting and Jericho

I might start watching

[yieldtonothing]

welp thats probably it for me watching, looks like warner cut the balls off

what balls? everything "extreme" they've tried to do has looked faker than community theater.

[Deathstroke]

what balls? everything "extreme" they've tried to do has looked faker than community theater.

I know it’s two different eras but aew has had better segments and matches than I used to watch in ecw, and tna. It opened up an absolute banger of a debut ppv!

You wouldn’t see Tommy dreamer and the blue Meanie having a clinic of a fight like Cody and Dustin did there!

[havoc00]

One wrestler noted to us that you won’t see any changes that would be noticeable since all of those things that you have to alert the producers about were all things that talent would already been telling the producers about to begin with.

He noted that during the rare occasions where people do something in the moment that would violate the rules it could be an issue after the fact, but noted those are rare. He expected if that were to happen he expected minor fines but no great repercussions and it wouldn’t happen often enough that it changes the product at all.

[MikeTheOne]

Good night, sweet Mox

[jimbob007]

I know it’s two different eras but aew has had better segments and matches than I used to watch in ecw, and tna. It opened up an absolute banger of a debut ppv!

You wouldn’t see Tommy dreamer and the blue Meanie having a clinic of a fight like Cody and Dustin did there!

Wasn't that the PPV for a shot at the world title with the transvestite, Glacier, some obese dude with his face painted yellow, an even more obese guy that looked like he was wearing a nappy, obese Dreamer, Dino Douche, Dwarf Dongsucker, Pockets doing his comedy kicks, a Japanese guy who kept oiling himself up & rubbing his ass on the other guys dicks & the guy with no legs?

[yieldtonothing]

collision has been a solid wrestling show lately honestly. for the most part.

it's not mind blowingly good or anything like that, but it's been good. watchable. when you have 2 hours and you're giving the biggest star in your company 20-30 minutes of face time every week, you're off on the right foot.

[jimbob007]

Good night, sweet Mox

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