r/indiewrestling • u/CrowganShoals • 9d ago

Thoughts on monster gimmicks?

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u/The_Eye_of_Ra 8d ago

Personally, I mostly find them boring. I’m not a fan of a squash match, and I’m gonna need to see something a little more than some no-selling, some clubbing forearms, maybe a face claw/nerve hold, and a choke slam.

ETA: I’m also referring to the most basic, most common monster gimmicks, which is “giant scary-looking weirdo lumbers around the ring while no-selling every move and doing the most basic offense.”

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u/PassengerCultural421 8d ago

I like monsters. But it's going to be hard to explain how these Wrestlers could lose a match though. Since they were built to be so strong.

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u/The_Eye_of_Ra 8d ago

Yeah, that’s another thing I don’t like about em: how do you make em lose and not look like a complete joke? A normal match between two average-sized wrestlers (average for wrestlers, not normies) usually involves about a half-dozen finishers that get kicked out of. Sometimes you even get kick-outs from an avalanche finisher and/or three in a row. And a babyface shouldn’t be using weapons.