10 Awesome Wrestling Moves That Nobody Ever Talks About
3. IRS' Write-Off
There are in fact three certainties in life: death, taxes, and the use of a crunching lariat to obscure just how bang-average a pro wrestler is.
I.R.S was probably worse than bang average. Rick Steiner carried him to some worthy matches in late '80s JCP, but beyond that, he wasn't particularly athletic nor interesting, but he was over through a fairly inspired gimmick: everybody hates the taxman, and everybody hates hearing the same grating catchphrase over and over again. If literally everybody was a tax cheat, he was probably better off back in the office, and not touring the nation in his side-gig as a professional wrestler.
His was a formidable physical presence, which made the bulk of his matches plodding, and his gait looked almost comical, or at least unsuited to the pro wrestling arena. It informed a ripper of a clothesline nonetheless.
Well, it looked like sh*t, if you want to get technical about it, but it also looked like it hurt a great deal, which Schyster's offence rarely did. Perhaps that was the magic; by finally moving, this rebound clobber looked more effective than it was. It looked almost annoying to take than painful, in that so many parts of his uncoordinated body struck his opponents at once.
The Write-Off was a gang beatdown of a move - unintentional, probably, but still.