10 Most Controversial Wrestling Tweets Ever

10. Rip Rogers Dives Into Twitter

You know, you can reduce anything.

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Rip Rogers, renowned OVW trainer, attempted to do just that in 2017 by tweeting out the formula for a modern hybrid style indie match. Or at least, how a fogey might believe them to unfold by watching some out of context GIFs he doesn't realise, bless him, aren't necessarily in chronological order. Twitter can be confusing at first.

A burial of tropes that are sometimes used to excess, Rip, the former two-time NWA Southeastern Junior Heavyweight Champion, wondered aloud what these dumb young kids were to doing to his legacy. This tweet annoyed and delighted the people you'd expect to a degree more than the usual. Randy Orton adopted the nightmare of ellipsis that was "..........dive" for a time as if his old-school "storytelling" style cast him as f*cking Mark Twain, or something.

You can reduce anything to make it seem less than it is. Football is just 22 men kicking a ball around some grass, etc.

A Randy Orton match, using the Rip format, is:

Long stare-down to convey super epic seriousness of situation, punches into the corner, back off with faux-happy expression, kick to gut, slow heat, comeback, snap power slam, slither across the canvas, comeback, draping DDT, more methodical posturing, a lot of talking, a lot more of talking, Garvin stomp, one or two near-falls............RKO.

Actually, that's about it.

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