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Shooting Star Press no longer banned?

posted 8 years ago by Senor_Frickin_Braggis
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I'm glad. It was always b.s. to ban it in the first place because of what happened to Brock. It was a freak accident. It was stupid to have a man his size perform it anyway.

[–] The_Nova 8 years ago

You forget about Evan Bourne?

[–] Bullish_Captain 8 years ago

Yeah. And Neville does a riskier version.

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[–] Senor_Frickin_Braggis 8 years ago

True, but The Red Arrow is not technically a Shooting Star Press. Its altered although yes it is way riskier and I'm shocked he hasn't hurt himself doing it yet.

WWE is notoriously anal about this kind of thing. Hell the only person allowed to perform a Piledriver is The Undertaker, and that is again a modified version.

They need to lighten up on the banning of moves. The Piledriver ban especially (it is a really basic and old school move that has injured relatively few people) is absurd. Besides Austin took a really botched version from Owen.

[–] HellboundHero 8 years ago

The most notorious cases of injury with the piledriver are always riskier variants, so yeah, I agree it's silly to ban every version except the tombstone.

[–] MrBlondNYC 8 years ago

Brock used to do it all the time in OVW and he did it on Raw once. But he was definitely out of practice that night. It was Kurt Angle's idea.

Evan Bourne had to do it for officials a lot of times in a row perfectly for Vince to give him special permission. I don't know if Lince Dorado had to do the same thing.

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[–] The_Nova 8 years ago

Billy Kidman still used it too even after Lesnar botched the move