10 Fake WWE Moments You Can't Un-See
4. Taking A Body Slam
God, things were so much better in the 1980s.
Men were men. Women were sex objects. Wrestling was real.
Except it wasn't.
The slapstick was more overtly comedic than any of the irony sh*te you seen on the shindies today, the "Should I get him?" babyface crowd appeals were pure pantomime, and the in-ring, generally, was incredibly histrionic. Whether it was Hulk Hogan begging the crowd to give him power or Ricky Morton reaching out to the tag rope as if his life literally depended on it, wrestling in the early cable era was outrageously theatrical. This, to be clear, wasn't a bad thing. Those were awesome babyfaces - but let's not pretend they were subtle or realistic or anything so harebrained like that.
And yet still, there exists a mythology around this era. The body slam was just so much more credible than the suicide dive, you know?
Except it isn't, because much like every wrestling move, it requires a degree of cooperation from both parties to execute; you'll notice and won't be able to stop noticing that the recipient "posts" for the move by lifting themselves off their opponent's thighs with their hands.