10 Most Humiliating Wrestling Moves
6. Rush's Kick Slap
With Los Ingobernables, Rush and La Sombra (Andrade) developed a new means of drawing heat in CMLL: basically, they were considered contemptible and entitled, Andrade in particular, who craved being the centre not merely of attention, but rather the universe.
If they didn't fancy putting the work in, they simply did not put in the work - but maddeningly, they were such excellent workers and heat magnets that, when they turned it on, they emerged as the biggest breakthrough stars of the mid 2010s lucha scene. Hell: their heel work was so fantastic that they wrote the blueprint for the man, Tetsuya Naito, who might well be the most popular Japanese wrestler of the 21st century. He was a sensation at the merchandise stand and drew the largest gate for any show that is the NJPW equivalent of a "B-level" pay-per-view in its modern history (The New Beginning In Osaka, 11, 411 paid).
Andrade and La Sombra knew how they were perceived and luxuriated in that perception by laying on their side and posturing that they were lazy sh*ts, above it all.
Rush compounds this winking lack of respect to the paying customer by humiliating his opponents; he sprints to the corner, motioning to drill them in the face, but instead stops in his tracks and kicks them in the mush. They get bitched, the fans see a less spectacular move, and he lies down, satisfied.
What a worker - in every sense of the phrase.