10 Best Wrestling No-Sells Ever
8. You Can't Piledrive A Road Warrior
More than anything, professional wrestling is built on rules. Now, this can be interpeted one of two ways. The first is the surface level, by which a wrestling match is defined. No closed fists, reaching the ropes breaks a submission hold after a 5-count, so on and so forth.
The other set of rules are more a vague set of understandings within the context of wrestling itself. Do not swing wildly after John Cena shoulderblocks you twice, for instance, would be included amongst these. Other such rules include that you shouldn't engage in a test of strength with a heel unless you want a kick to the gut, that you should never punch an opponent in a corner more than ten times, and never, under any circumtsances, piledrive a Road Warrior.
For the unitiated, the Road Warriors were one of the most popular tag teams in the history of professional wrestling. Hawk and Animal were a pair of massive, face-painted beastmen that tore into opponents with such voracity that the crowd responses forced them to become faces. To this day, a massive crowd reaction is still called a Road Warrior pop.
To demonstrate how tough they are, the Road Warriors, Hawk in particular, would often be on the receiving end of a piledriver, one of the sport's most notorious finishing moves. Hawk would take the move and pop right back up to the thrill of the crowd. Nobody else was ever able to do this, but then again, nobody else was the Road Warriors.