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Finally...  marshall{at}astro.umd.edu (James Marshall) has come back to
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>In article 
"Ebon Bear"  writes:
>
>Cutting most of it, but I seem to have lost the original quote attribution.
>
>>> * Michaels doesn't quite do the Flair Flip.
>
>OK, I've heard of this move a lot while reading stuff here and on the web
>in match reviews and the like.  But what is it?  I can't remember the
>matches well enough to remember the one specific move at a specific point
>that the review calls the Flair Flip.  Is it Flair's name for a standard
>wrestling move?  If so, which one?  If it's not a standard move, can
>someone give me a description of it so that I can recognize it from now
>on?  BTW, I think I've read of a Flair Flop, too -- same move or something
>different?  If different, same request as above.
>


Flip = Flair whipped into a corner, flips upside down and over the
rope to land feet first on the apron

That's followed by 2 variations:
1) sprint down the apron to the top turnbuckle in the next corner to
be slammed off the top rope (or hit an axe handle if a face) OR
2) be clotheslined off the apron to the floor

Flop = opponent beats the tar out of him with chops or punches.  Flair
pushed them away, takes 2 steps while looking around glassy eyed, then
abruptly flops onto his face

>>> * Shane swings a chair at Kane's chest, Kane blocks, Shane pulls the
>>>   swing short and whacks Kane's knees instead.  Why doesn't this happen
>>>   more often?
>
>>Wouldn't be amusing.
>
>I don't know, I think that would be cool now and then.  If you're about to
>attack someone and see them blocking or prepared to block well in advance
>of the hit, wouldn't you try to either change the attack or prepare an
>immediate follow up that uses the first one as a decoy?  If they did it
>every single time someone goes to block early, it might not be as cool,
>but every once in a while I think it could work.
>

Especially if the other wrestler threw up the hands WAAAY too early to
block like happens sometimes.

Another amusing variant I've seen when the opponent throws up the
hands to block too early goes like this:

1) target throws up hands
2) chair-swinger stops, does 3 stooges eye poke, then waffles the
target when the hands go to the eyes instead of directly above head

>
>>>  Brock's moonsault at WM 19, also a
>>>  glancing blow at best, was promptly admitted to be such.
>
>>That was a shooting star press but yes, he came up well short although Kurt
>>tried to cover for him by rolling away as he landed.
>
>Quick thinking on Angle's part.  I'm still kind of surprised that Brock
>didn't kill himself on that move.  That was one wicked landing.
>

If his neck wasn't so thick, he'd have been a lot worse off.  As it
is, he's admitted to bad neck pain since then that he's been afraid to
check out.  :-(  Let's hope that the missed SSP doesn't start the
descent like that botched tombstone did for Austin.  :-(

Bill
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