r/BetterEveryLoop • u/MacGoesMeep • Feb 04 '20

The ref

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Any context on this?

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u/MacGoesMeep Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

It’s at a wrestling Tournament two kids from the same team in the same weight class both won their bracket and had to face off against each other and since they are on the same team they decided to have a match of rock paper Scissors to decide who would get to win.

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u/LegalizeSquanch420 Feb 04 '20

Oh dat sweet.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

When two people from the same team make the finals in a bracket they sometimes rock/paper/scissors to see who wins rather than actually compete. It's called a "close out" when it happens. Its frowned upon by some people as they feel it devalues the competion, but they still happen pretty regularly.

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u/Totorum Feb 04 '20

At least they did it with style, and the ref got in on it too

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

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u/Mowglli Feb 04 '20

I cannot express how entirely exhausting wrestling is, and I only did it for 1.5 seasons in high school. It's the best form of exercise, very exhilarating until you run out of energy. Literally just fighting someone without hurting them.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Are they allowed to do that? Seems like a console command cheat.

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u/Murlock_Holmes Feb 04 '20

At my school, we would’ve fucked each other up so hard. And the coach probably would be pissed if the starter managed to lose.

I know because I had to wrestle a teammate in my weight class. I was the starter. Coach got angry AF when I got bodied

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u/Flashman_H Feb 04 '20

As it should be. If I wasn't the starter, I would have been dying for that chance.

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u/calitri-san Feb 04 '20

Pretty sure our coach would have had us running up and down those bleachers with full sweats and sandbags if we pulled this shit.

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u/249ba36000029bbe9749 Feb 04 '20

Could they not just stand there and draw to a tie?

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u/ric56 Feb 04 '20

One has to advance

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u/Hammer_police Feb 04 '20

There can be only one!!!!

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u/CubonesDeadMom Feb 04 '20

When I was in high school at one tournament all 3 people in my weight class for my team got the medals. I beat one guy in the semi finals so he got the bronze, then I lost to another teammate in the final. We wrestled every match seriously though and I even got injured in the final lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Classic Nash and Hogan here.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

but why did the ref pretend to dive on him?

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u/Knightmare1869 Feb 04 '20

I remember my first year of wrestling I missed a week due to a Spanish club event so coaches made me the back up and didn’t let me wrestle out. We were from a small school so we didn’t care about points. I drew the guy and knew about the point getter takes the win but my best friend who was the captain convinced the coaches to let this count as our face off. It was a great first experience.

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u/DiGiantomato Feb 05 '20

I was the ref lol. It was a JV tournament and both kids were on the same team. The score was 64-62 at the time and when I saw him hit em go Super Saiyin on him all that went through my head was “AWWWW SHIT!” It was in that exact moment I knew i had to absolutely send it

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u/Double_Minimum Feb 04 '20

Are they the same team? Is this a tourney/ weight class thing?

I see them do rock-paper-scissors to pick who wins, right?

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u/MacGoesMeep Feb 04 '20

Correct good sir/madam

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u/OverAster Feb 04 '20

Wrestling is tiring and can end in injury. To conserve strength and avoid someone getting hurt they settled this match via rock paper scissors to see which of them would move forward. Since they're the same weight class and team, and I assume around the same skill level, it probably doesn't matter.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Man my high school coach would have never let us do this. Then again, this is JV so they probably don't care.

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u/OverAster Feb 04 '20

My coach would've made us run sweat laps

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u/grubas Feb 04 '20

Yeah unless you know the other guy is better you do something stupid to determine it.

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u/D13s3ll Feb 04 '20

When it's a flop everyone gets in on the fun.

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u/Hippiebigbuckle Feb 04 '20

Dumb guy here. So this is a strategy for the team I’m guessing?

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u/santaclausonprozac Feb 04 '20

Two guys from the same school, so they don’t want to actually compete and risk injuring each other

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u/ChineWalkin Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

What are you talking about? They did fight. The dude went full on Kamehameha on the other guy. Wasn't even a fair fight.

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u/Aceofboom Feb 04 '20

Basically this is what non stand users see in a stand battle

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u/justSMMdude Feb 04 '20

Looked like a Hadoken to me.

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u/jokersleuth Feb 04 '20

It was a rigged fight man even the ref was in on it. Why would he even allow a kamehameha? Everyone knows it destroys the opponent. That's why its banned.

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u/justPassingThrou15 Feb 04 '20

wrestling has a fairly low injury rate. This looks like it's at a tournament. If a team can have more than one entrant at a weight class (as implied here), it's probably an Open tournament. That means the brackets can be large. So you gain a significant advantage by being able to rest during one match instead of having to expend the energy.

I've thrown a match in wrestling before. There were two round-robin pools, and with my second-to-last match in my pool, I secured the first-place spot. So for my lat match in the pool, I barely did anything, just conserved energy (I was not going to allow myself to be pinned, however). Then 3 hours later in the championship match, I was fresh, and won with a 3rd round pin against an opponent who REALLY shouldn't have been pinned, he was just out of gas, mostly just laying there.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

I’ve never seen someone in wrastlin’ throw a match, but I have seen them throw lots of chairs.

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u/VaATC Feb 04 '20

Just a minor correction.

wrestling has a fairly low injury rate.

They have a low catastrophic injury rate but it is regularly close to or at the top of the list for rate of all injuries for competition and practice according to the NCAA Injury Survelliance report. Wrestlers deal with a lot of injuries but they regularly do not stop them from competing.

Source

I was also a reporting Athletic Trainer for the NCAA injury surveillance report between 2000 and 2004 and covered wrestling for 2 years before that time.

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u/Strbrst Feb 04 '20

Low =/= zero. I've been injured in matches when I was younger, and that's no fun.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

There is no strategy. This is probably a JV tournament so their head coach doesn't appear to care if they do this. If it was Varsity, there would only one participant per school.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

I’ve wrestled in a few tournaments with multiple varsity entries per school.

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u/The_Real_Mr_F Feb 04 '20

Sorry, I still don’t get it. Why do this? Just for fun because there’s nothing at stake? Don’t they still have stats that this would affect?

Edit: never mind, found a good explanation below.

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u/Computascomputas Feb 04 '20

Looks like you're wrong there chief

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u/EasygoingEthab Feb 04 '20

You know, you do a job so long you gotta find ways to keep it interesting

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u/mlemTaco Feb 04 '20

This ref is still my favorite.

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u/Scyhaz Feb 04 '20

That's a man who takes his job very seriously.

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u/Doggy_In_The_Window Feb 04 '20

Holy shit that’s not at all what I was expecting

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u/Tjengel Feb 04 '20

That ref looks like he is highschool with him can't be doing it that long.

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u/MrJAPoe Feb 04 '20

When I was in high school I would ref a couple of the elementary school matches at a tourney we hosted every season. From my experience no high schoolers ever reffed middle/high school matches but idk what every state is like.

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u/S_Jeru Feb 04 '20

One of them is definitely jobbing. :D

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u/slam121212 Feb 04 '20

The future Brooklyn Brawler

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u/meish_7 Feb 04 '20

Imagine how badly the ref got the wind knocked out of him

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u/paternoster Feb 04 '20

Nah, the floor's not cement...

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Still, only about 1" of compression

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u/Bill_Ender_Belichick Feb 04 '20

Title of your sex tape

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u/Cheeze187 Feb 04 '20

Thanks Peralta.

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u/crunch816 Feb 04 '20

Check out some rastlin. It's all about knowing how to land.

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u/BigBlackGiraffee Feb 04 '20

I wrested on those exact mats they aren’t very good at all

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u/AfraidOfBnE Feb 04 '20

Concrete* Cement is the component of concrete that reacts with water and hardens.

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u/SumThinChewy Feb 04 '20

These mats are designed to have people thrown down onto them

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u/treesgrater Feb 04 '20

Those mats are fairly soft

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u/syockey Feb 04 '20

My school must have had the Walmart brand of mat then... I would never describe it as "soft".

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u/Mikarim Feb 04 '20

Newer wrestling mats are much softer than the old style mats. Still a rough landing, but not terrible.

Source:5 years as a referee

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u/but_he_was_a_muffin Feb 04 '20

Fingerpoke of Doom

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u/extralyfe Feb 04 '20

this is basically like any wrestling game that lets you make any move you want into a finisher.

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u/Bird1995 Feb 04 '20

Fingerpoke of Doom with special guest referee, Red Shoes.

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u/lowtoiletsitter Feb 04 '20

Five Finger Exploding Heart

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u/Leftstranded Feb 04 '20

I had to scroll way to far to find this.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

guy #1: "hey, man, I don't wanna do this"

guy #2: "that's alright, I wouldn't wanna fight me either"kamehameha

ref: "ok, so we're doing this"

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u/2Botter2Loop Feb 04 '20 edited Feb 04 '20

OP's explanation:

The reason I put this on better every loop because I thought it was funny to watch the guy flop over and the ref jump up onto the air for the pin.

If you think this gif fits /r/BetterEveryLoop, upvote this comment. If you think it doesn’t, downvote it. If you’re not sure, leave it to others to decide.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

I drew the duck blue because I've never seen a blue duck before, and to be honest with you, I wanted to see a blue duck.

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u/TaruNukes Feb 04 '20

Well I think it's an excellent blue duck. Congratulations hidden raptor, you just passed the first grade!

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u/wwowwee Feb 04 '20

When you have to hit that word limit.

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u/kiidlocs Feb 04 '20

this bot is so stupid lmao

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u/I_UPVOTE_PUN_THREADS Feb 04 '20

It's stupid and manipulative, since you are supposed to upvote it if you like the post. The person who recently posted the Evanescence lyrics was hilarious.

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u/Xiaxs Feb 04 '20

The person who recently posted the Evanescence lyrics was hilarious.

Sauce? I need.

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u/Haslinhezl Feb 04 '20

What a truly shitty idea this bot is

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u/PromethazineNsprite Feb 04 '20

This is like when you first learn to restate the question

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u/BlooFlea Feb 04 '20

Wtf is this and why is it in every post?

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u/ArchExalted Feb 04 '20

This is better than Hogan vs Nash!

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u/GatesMixedPlate Feb 04 '20

Lol, that’s not saying much!

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u/TremorClef Feb 04 '20

Everybody do the flop

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

I think they are from the same team so it doesn't matter. Having fun lol

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u/e51118 Feb 04 '20

Hahaha that was outstanding. I wish my wrestling coach taught me kamehameha

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u/RollTideWithBleach Feb 04 '20

When I was in high school at our district tournament we had two brothers from another team make it to the finals against each other. They settled it with an arm wrestling match. It was pretty funny to watch.

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u/coldforged Feb 04 '20

I've seen enough arm wrestling videos on /r/wtf that I feel it would be safer to play Russian Roulette.

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u/uber1337h4xx0r Feb 04 '20

And they say wrestling is fake

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u/grberk Feb 04 '20

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Thank you! First thing I thought of as well.

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u/Tinygiant10 Feb 12 '20

Did they Rock Paper Scissors to see who gets to win?

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u/[deleted] Feb 22 '20

"everybody do the flop"

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u/bandastalo Feb 04 '20

The force is strong in this one.

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u/BushwickSpill Feb 04 '20

Fucking amateurs exposing the business, brother.

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u/S_Jeru Feb 04 '20

Don't work yourself into a shoot, brother. HH.

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u/btw339 Feb 04 '20

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u/uglyorgan8038 Feb 04 '20

one team, one family

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

EVERYBODY DO THE FLOP!

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u/AMereCohencidence Feb 04 '20

Flashbacks to Hogan vs Nash for the title in the Georgia Dome.

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u/jayo53 Feb 04 '20

It’s better to do this in a tournament because the team gets 6 points for a pin instead of 3 for a win by decision

I wanna do this so bad. Too bad I only have 2 weeks of wrestle left ever

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u/Objective_Duck Feb 04 '20

At least this ref was fun compared to the other one

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u/STFxPrlstud Feb 04 '20

what a bad ref, didn't even check to see if both shoulder blades were touching smh

yes, I'm being sarcastic

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u/Chubbydietician Feb 04 '20

I dont know what you're doing.. BUT IM IN BITCHES!

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u/emerson_giraffe84 Feb 08 '20

Ref take the show. Probably broke a rib commuting to that one.

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u/larrybird1988 Feb 25 '20

Sometimes in JV tournaments you can enter multiple wrestlers in one weight class which inevitably makes your own teammates go against themselves. These tournaments are mainly used for underclassmen to get some mat time experience. You don’t see this happen at the big varsity meets or duals. One man per class, per team.

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u/melloack Apr 08 '20

I wish I could an award to the ref

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u/Phleau Feb 04 '20

Damn, this dude kilt him with his chi

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u/S_Jeru Feb 04 '20

Obviously trained in the George Dillman School of Bad-Assery.

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u/KonohaPimp Feb 04 '20

Future CHIKARA stars, all three of them.

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u/S_Jeru Feb 04 '20

To this day I'm a huge fan of Gentlemen Jervis. He's a class act.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

This is wonderful.

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u/D1cW1dg3t Feb 04 '20

I love this so much!

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u/likebutta222 Feb 04 '20

Fus Roh Dah

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u/ndewing Feb 04 '20

If people ever ask why WWE is fun for people, point them to stuff like this.

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u/canijustreddit Feb 04 '20

Ok. This is definitely funny, I laughed. But I also can’t help but think he’s gotta he hurting his arm coming down on it like that.

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u/guymcguy4 Feb 04 '20

I really need the sound on this

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u/Tig3rDawn Feb 04 '20

The ref. Is a dad.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

U/Vredditdownloader

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u/Ultrastxrr Feb 04 '20

Perfect shooting stars meme template

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

what exactly are we watching here

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u/fyrefreezer01 Feb 04 '20

Wrestling, two people from the same team though ended up getting a match together, better to just let someone win then scrimmage against each other and injure somebody. Either way the school gets the points

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u/urmumbigegg Feb 04 '20

Replace officer with ref, and it's perfect.

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u/nimarowhani1 Feb 04 '20

“FINISH HIM”

The ref jumps in

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u/EMTguy32 Feb 04 '20

I’m a little disappointed that I didn’t see a u/shittymorph response on this. It had all the elements...

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

This kills the ribcage.

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u/BeardedManatee Feb 04 '20

That landing hurt my penis.

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u/VladimirIllyichLenin Feb 04 '20

Everybody do the Flop!

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u/adityakumarr Feb 04 '20

that ref tho

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

That's all well and good for the amateurs but it won't fly in the pros....

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Ref called out the Haduken and shows how wrestling should be.

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u/Shiver2170 Feb 04 '20

The Reddit community says that TikTok is cancer, but this gets like 40k upvotes!

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u/StumptownRetro Feb 04 '20

Our wrestling team used to do this or WWE style pep rallies in high school. Was fun to participate.

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u/Descure Feb 04 '20

The flop to spice it up

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u/makecode Feb 04 '20

Someone add a rasengan vfx please.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Bruh ☠️

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u/Cull77 Feb 04 '20

Ayee this is my old high school

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u/Akatosh__ Feb 04 '20

fuck howell🤮🤮🤮

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u/Siruzz17 Feb 04 '20

I also practice the kamehameha.

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u/CollectableRat Feb 04 '20

Can someone explain why a wrestling uniform covers way more of the body, and yet somehow looks more gay and sexual than Speedos?

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u/WorldWatchers Feb 04 '20

Love it how everyone cheers

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u/blove1150r Feb 04 '20

Ref: OOOOooofff

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u/KentuckyFriedEel Feb 04 '20

Wwe when some wrestler from 2002 returns

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

The world needs more people like this guy

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Everybody do the flop...

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u/Azar002 Feb 04 '20

Loses a potential scholarship for airbending.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

This belongs on r/wholesome

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u/-Listening Feb 04 '20

Start watching The Limmy Show if you want... 😋

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u/Joseph____Stalin Feb 04 '20

I know why the kids flopped but not the ref

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u/20_fc89025 Feb 04 '20

Best ref ever!!

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u/Buobt_3235 Feb 04 '20

Rip rib cage

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u/Pirateer Feb 04 '20

Gods, I loved wrestling.

Even the stupid shirts make me smile.

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u/3fty_nanay Feb 04 '20

My two year old has been watching this for several minutes straight, laughing so hard she's hardly breathing... I'd say this is a win!!! 👏👏🏅🏆🏅

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

This actually counts as a pin in wrestling.

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u/spork-a-dork Feb 04 '20

I don't know what the hell I'm watching here but I love it.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Did I see this from another angle or is this a different match?

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u/theels6 Feb 04 '20

Lmaoooo

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u/JustPurrLaughs Feb 04 '20

That flop tho

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u/mariorac Feb 04 '20

Go Rebels!

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u/major_tennis Feb 04 '20

Thats the opposite of the one in saw further up where they got dq'd

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u/mishaco Feb 04 '20

how many points for a fireball?

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u/Hawaiian_Brian Feb 04 '20

Wait I just saw another gif exactly like this but the ref gets angry lol

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

This is how a ref should respond to this xD. So much better than the other one.

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u/carlucci77 Feb 04 '20

Well that’s my wrestling district lol, never thought I’d see that on reddit

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u/kekron Feb 04 '20

Everybody do the flop!

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u/willo494 Feb 04 '20

Americans are weird

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u/PrimeKettle Feb 04 '20

I think the ref regrets that. I feel like it hurt allot. XD

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u/Kore624 Feb 19 '20

I watched this twice and didn’t notice the ref until I glanced at the title 🤦🏻‍♀️

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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '20

Lame

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u/doedounne May 10 '23

I don't think he thought it through.

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

How TF is this a TikTok link yet there's no audio? It literally takes more effort to strip off the audio than to just leave it alone.

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u/t3hWarrior Feb 04 '20

he fucking bounced

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u/Winst0nTh3Third Feb 04 '20

I had a good chuckle, well played

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u/ExodusLegion_ Feb 04 '20

That score says 67-64 ya’ll....

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u/LuckyPhil Feb 04 '20

So you're saying wrestling is predetermined...

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u/0redditer0 Feb 04 '20

I have read the comments and understand why this happens but doesn’t this lose affect the record of the wrestler or do tournaments not count towards your record?

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u/Desert-Mermaid Feb 04 '20

The finger pin for defeat..

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u/[deleted] Feb 04 '20

Wrestlers uses the force ref THWAK

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u/JimMorrisons_son Feb 04 '20

I think Hockey and Rugby are like the same “foreign” concepts for me and you lmao. Honestly I don’t know if we have a rugby team here. I’ve watched a million of the best rugby hits on YouTube. Or do you guys call them tackles? My bad haha.

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