5 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (July 6)
1. VAR And Away The Best Patter Of The Week
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For those who don't follow football/soccer - you poor people - VAR (Video Assistant Referee) is an experimental technological advancement in officiating inexplicably, brilliantly, debuted at the highest level of competition: the World Cup.
VAR ostensibly leaves no margin for error but, football being football, the referees, even when confronted with incontrovertible evidence of their own oversight, instead opt to ignore it. And, DDT being DDT - a treasure we don't deserve - the promotion has recently parodied it to hilarious effect.
In the midst of a tag team encounter, a wrestler scored a pinfall following an illegal low blow. The referee, alerted to the transgression via the new technology, referred to the video footage, stroking his chin in thought. In an absurd twist, he declared not a "No Fall" but instead "No Goal" - a potentially on-the-nose gag subverted, superbly, with the award of a "penalty kick". Cue a not-bad-at-all Katsuyori Shibata tribute spot set up by the referee (!) with a snapmare takedown. What's even better is that this simultaneously poked fun at football and WWE officiating.
The bit was framed, unapologetically, as a bit, in which everybody willingly looked silly...and still, this chin-stroking referee looked miles more competent than the black and white-striped blind dumbasses tasked with maintaining order in a WWE ring. DDT is meant to be the joke promotion.
This was both topical parody and incredible satire.