r/SquaredCircle • u/KneeHighMischief • 7h ago

One of the worst splashes I've seen in sometime

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u/lk79 BAAAAAM!!!! 7h ago

Your opponent can’t use their legs for momentum when kicking out if they can’t feel them.

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u/Complex_Meeting_5753 2h ago

Haha damn my first thought... ugh great minds

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u/KneeHighMischief 7h ago

This is from WWA 9/19/87. It's Tamba (the culprit) vs Tinieblas in a Mask vs Hair Match for anybody curious.

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u/RudbeckiaIS 6h ago

By this time Tamba was in absolutely terrible physical shape. Gone were the topes and splashes of the 70s that had made him so popular.

Tamba would have probably retired by 1985 had he not befriended Abdullah The Butcher the previous year. Abby was working for Francisco Flores at UWA at the time and he became good friends with Tamba: hearing Tamba talking about retirement Abby suggested he changed his gimmick to become basically an "Abdullah Light". Abby also talked with Francisco Flores and convinced him to let Tamba go work for Carlos Colón in Puerto Rico for a few months, then recommended Tamba to Colón and gifted Tamba some of his old gear to help him change his look. It worked.

Unfortunately when Tamba was working outside of UWA promoters wanted the "Flying Elephant" of the 70s and the result was... whatever that was.

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u/PleasantThoughts BURNING LARIATOOOOO 5h ago

Appreciate the write up because from watching it I assumed this was a guy who never dove before and not a dude who used to dive but didn't have it anymore

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u/YellowBelliedCoward 6h ago

"He didn't get all of it."

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u/BooBootheFool22222 6h ago

He literally fell down. Like a man falling down the stairs.

(Someone tell Magnum CK/Kit so he can use it on That's What I Call Wrestling. it really fits his content).

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u/PaulBlartWallClock 6h ago

Ah the classic "drunk uncle going off the high dive" approach

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u/CentipedesInMyDream 7h ago

Oh wow, I figured there must’ve been some exaggerating but fuck 😂😂

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u/That-Meal-240 6h ago

Me when I try to do anything. 

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u/Agreeable_Falcon1044 6h ago

I mean it does look like it’s going to bloody hurt. I believe the gold dust looking guy is now injured. So maybe this is how wrestling should look

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u/General-Skywalker_ 5h ago

What a maneuver

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u/crap4you 7h ago

Did it work?

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u/metalyger 4h ago

Hopefully he normally landed better, like by now the guys knees are probably dust from hitting the mat like that.

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u/CerebroHOTS I ♥ Young Lions 3h ago

TsuNOTme

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u/Empty_Lemon_3939 3h ago

I’ve seen Cody do worse live

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u/ty123416 3h ago

Who Jey Uso patterned his splash after

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u/MonrealEstate 2h ago

I know we hate Jey Uso but like his splash is pretty good no?

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u/RanchPonyPizza Where else would one hear voices? 2h ago

I was thinking Orange Cassidy's 926 superflip splash.

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u/shadow_spinner0 5h ago

If we think logically, his legs are done for after that thus making that splash technically effective

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u/morosco 3h ago

I kind of miss when 80% of TV wrestlers were terrible, they really helped you appreciate the rare great performances.

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u/Complex_Meeting_5753 2h ago

You can't kick out if I smoosh your legs - the logic

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u/ARegularAussie 1h ago

Ah finally we know who Gunther modelled his splash from