Do you know what the best thing in professional wrestling right now is? I'll give you a second to think about it, but the correct answer is Ober Femmy Strutt.

Because even though he's coming to the ring to do a wrestling match, even when he's going to do a promo, he decides to do this. And you know it caught fire with the internet because you could go on TikTok for a few weeks and everybody was doing it. I even thought somebody's Nairn doing it,

and when your Nair starts doing wrestling walks,

that person is over, not your nan.

And really, you can find every single wrestler on this planet trying something, but that doesn't mean it is going to work. However, I have a list for you with people that have totally smashed it. So stick something in your pocket and let's go. Number 12, Damien Sando and his microphone technique. I don't just want to focus on wrestlers that are still permanently active today because I don't think that's fun. And let's go back to Damien Sandow and Miz Dow, somebody that never got the credit that he did deserve. When he was blowing up as the Miz's stunt double, I tell you, we got to the Under the Giant Memorial Battle Royal and Damo did throughout the Miz, and he got thrown out by the big show. I know this happened a decade ago, but I'm not over it. Of course, before all that, his character was the intellectual saviour of the masses and the clue is in the name. And because he was meant to be a posh smart guy, when he held the microphone, I've got nothing around I can grab. He kind of held it as if it was a wine glass. Like you could imagine him swelling around the liquid and giving it a sniff. Now listen, if you're into that wine tasting thing, more power to you, it also always looks really weird. It also allowed him to come across as if he was some sort of master and if you were the student. He was going to teach you a lesson. And it really was such a small thing, but it did make you take one second and go, why is he doing that with his hand? Because there's no way it's natural. He must have come up with this on his own brain, and yes, it tied directly into the gimmick. We just remind you that maybe Damien Sandow did have a way better handle on pro wrestling than we remember these days. And yes, I know it went bad eventually. We've talked about it and what he did

in TNA would ever make any sense. But it's the small things like this. I go back to Oberfemmy's walk. You notice it. It gets in your head and you can't unnotice it. It's number 11, the Chris Hamring Bub. This does the rounds on the internet a lot these days. If you haven't seen it, you can go Google it right now. But essentially, Mr. Chris here was in the ring with Sean Waltman,

when he gets thrown into the ropes, And I suppose you were meant to think he's going to do a springboard or something. But no, he had devised a bump where he quite literally went through the top and middle rope and he bumped right on the floor outside. That's right. There's no way this didn't work. He was just falling on the outside like a pancake.

But of course it also got a reaction every single time because it allowed you to go, well, I know the rest of this wrestling is predetermined. But that, well, that just looked like a guy trying to kill himself. It's also kind of funny as well because today you always get people going, oh, wrestling used to be more realistic back of the day. And here, yes, yes it did.

But also it puts to bed this realistic back of the day. And here, yes, yes, it did.

But also it puts to bed this ridiculous question about the Irish whip. Because if you tried

to Irish whip somebody in your real life, they would just stop turnaround and go like, why are you

trying to push me? Whereas I guess Chris had come up with an idea that the reason he was doing it is

because he was going to try to get instant revenge when he would dive at you and he totally missed. He did this time and time again as well. And while it never hurt him directly, you have to think you added up after a while. I mean, it really did look like it sat. I can't think of anybody else that has done this ever since though for obvious reasons, but it does mean that it's Chris's quirk and it's actually quite a cool thing to come up with. Also dumb. Number 10, the Miz's upside down logo. Now let us make this clear. The WW logo has been very similar for a while now, but that does mean the likes of a Matt Hardy or a Mark Henry or a Molly Holly could have taken the airman and flipped it round in order it to to lie up to their name, but there was only one person that did do it, de Mizz. And the reason this worked so damn well is because it was so simple, but also because the MIS was a massive asshole, to the point he was telling you, I saw this very iconic symbol, and I just took the first bit, and I flipped it around around because now it can read M4, Miz.

And even when he was doing Ms TV, this was essentially the logo that summed everything up. I don't know. There's something really clever about it being so easy to come up with and yet nobody else did. Once again, though, it does all come down to the gimmick and when you can come up with a quirk that actually resonates with the person you're trying to be. Well, it's the reason we are talking about right now.

And he was also basically saying he was bigger than the company. can come up with a quirk that actually resonates with the person you're trying to be. Well, it's the reason we are talking about right now.

And he was also basically saying he was bigger than the company. I mean, I've widely exaggerated there. But I think it adds some depth. Stick into it. Number nine, Bob Backland and the, oh no. So it was so weird in 1992 when all of a sudden old school proper wrestler Bob Bactlin decided to pop back into the the WWF because we had entered the era where every single wrestler needed a job and here is a guy who quite literally felt like he'd stumbled out of the 80s. And sure it was only eight years after his last appearance when he did pop back in but so much had changed he felt like a fish out of water. Now made the whole thing even more difficult to kind of work because nobody knew exactly what he was going to do. But because he had brought his playbook from the older days, it meant when he was being beaten up by the baby face, you could quite orderly hear him go, oh no, oh well no, oh what am I going to do? And at first it was stupid, but after a while, because Bob Backlin transformed into a crazy person, it became effortlessly entertaining. And all he was doing was the old stuff, but now he was doing in a new ring, but by Job it worked. Now, Backland never really got to the level where WW if wanted it to on this second run. But when they did kind of count their losses, just allowed Bob Backlin to be Bob Backlund, it actually worked out

all right. And this was a huge reason for it, because he would be getting bipped around the ring, and the whole time he just kept talking and talking. And you know who that's kind of similar to at Kevin Owens and MJF, when they are bumping for the baby faces as the heels, they never shut up. the way the Bactler knew there or not,

that's exactly what he was doing.

Number eight, Cain's ring exit.

And you already know what I'm talking about, which does sum it up, and sure the undertaker used to do it a little bit as well, but nowhere near as consistently as Kane. And let's not forget he was massive, but he would like walk his back into the ropes, hook his arm under them, when he would just topple backwards and land on his feet. I have tried to do this in a resting ring, and it's absolutely terrifying, and I am like six foot one. Kane is like six foot nine. I don't know how he did it. It really was a big reminder of how athletic he was as well, especially for a big man. It's actually kind of hard to find clips on this on the internet today, but if you were fan of the attitude era, it doesn't even matter because once again he did it all the time. I kind of feel like this one was intrinsically licked to his character as well, because he was meant to be like a demon psychopath. And I would imagine most people who are Mahousive are told yet, like don't flip yourself backwards and not know where you are going. But as for Kane, because he had

been fake burned at his child, he was going to do it anyway. Number seven, the Samoa Joe nope spot. So this is so good, it should become like a family heirloom. What I mean by that is when Samoa Joe retires. He should gift this wonderful gift to somebody else, which is kind of what we were hinting at when he was mentoring hook.

That thing now feels like it's dead.

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