10 Dumbest Ways WWE Wrestlers Lost Matches

9. Musical Distractions (Various)

Dean Ambrose TLC 2014
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The first time was understandable, whenever it happened. You're in the middle of a match. You're hurt. You need to juggle the task at hand with the braying cries of thousands upon thousands of fans. And then, the entrance theme of your most hated enemy blasts over the arena speakers. The enemy that you cannot help but think about every waking hour of the day. Naturally, this is distracting. Infuriating. And then: you're rolled up by your enemy on the night, your win/loss record tainted.

It's the "various" part that renders this hopelessly dumb. WWE opts for this trope so often that those who fall for it cannot be considered anything less than morons.

The problem is that buying the distraction finish requires so many leaps in logic that, in the end, you only want to leap off the nearest ledge for choosing a hobby so stupid and so repetitive. The distracted wrestler shouldn't get distracted because they should know how the song goes by this point. The wrestler doing the distraction must have to pay off or beat up some production staffer to control the sound equipment, creating in the mind's eye a visual image so pantomime that the entire enterprise is rendered a farce.

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