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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })A "spot", in Professional Wrestling lingo, is a move as scripted into a match, including the reaction by the opponent.note While the outcomes of matches are scripted, most of the match is improvised, with the exception of spots at key moments. One of the most important and difficult parts of a pro wrestler's job is to make the improvised parts flow properly from one spot to the next, and come off like a real athletic competition, or at least like a real fight. Some (particularly younger) wrestlers know a lot of great spots, which look absolutely brutal and require a great degree of athleticism, and yet they still don't really know how to wrestle; they have no idea how to tell a story in their matches, or even the basics of acting like something really hurt. They're the type of wrestlers who will do a Triple-Tope-Quebradora-Con-Queso through three flaming tables onto a bed of thumbtacks and ground glass wired with explosives, and then get up like nothing happened, only to perform an even more spectacular spot later in the match. These wrestlers are referred to as "Spot Monkeys" by fans, and their matches are often "Spotfests" (in other words, spot after spot with little or no rhyme or reason to them). Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Interestingly, the term "Spot Monkey" is seeing less relevance these days, partly because modern fans buy less into Kayfabe and the need for selling, partly because there is an increasing trend of audiences preferring more amazing stunts (and wrestlers who are happy to satisfy), and partly because the term has too often been used as shorthand for "wrestler I don't like." In the other direction, "spotfest" isn't always a negative term, and a fan can use it to when they are impressed with the conditioning or ability to put together rapid fire spots well, or tell a good story with those spots. Contrast Wrestling Psychology, which tends to get ignored when this trope is in play. |
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Back in the old days of RSPW, this was called a Sabu Match, named after ECW wrestler Sabu. It's actually an interesting case of Sabu's wrestling style. Back in the old days, Sabu really could wrestle and would throw in the occasional high spot. However, the ECW crowd only cheered the high spots. It eventually devolved to the point where Sabu only did high spots because that's all the crowd would react to. The end result would be a high spot, a couple of minutes of walking around or resting, and then another high spot which completely destroyed any sense of wrestling psychology or workrate. | |
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Shane McMahon, despite the fact he is a sitting executive at WWF/E, part of one of the most legacied families in the business, and the boss' only son, who knows how to fight and wrestle. Did a flying elbow drop from the corner to the announce table at WrestleMania X-Seven to his dad, his signature move is a corner-to-corner dropkick into a trashcan, and his most famous spot is definitely the Leap of Faith off the Titantron or Hell in a Cell. He has also taken some nasty bumps too (such as being thrown through the King of the Ring set onto unpadded concrete, a bump that took multiple attempts to make work, with him landing squarely on his head on the failed tries), being sent through a plate of plexiglass twice and landing on his head and neck the first time, doing a Shooting Star Press onto a garbage can in his match with Kurt Angle at the King of the Ring PPV, since it was pure showing off as the move would only hurt Shane and do nothing to Angle. He's also still a Spot Monkey well into his 50s and after a 17-year hiatus, and he has received multiple concussions and injuries for still retaining his high-flying moveset. | |
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Averted with Shawn Michaels, who is one of the greatest wrestlers of all time and one of the absolute best at telling a story through a match, but played straight in the influence he had on today's spot monkeys, being a great practitioner of high-level spots himself. | |
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Van Dam's is more about his lack of selling a story rather than lack of selling an attack. A case in point would be his match with Abyss at Bound For Glory. Abyss had tried to kill RVD with a block of wood covered with huge nails and forced RVD to vacate the belt. During the match, RVD played to the crowd and generally acted like this was just another match rather than a high-level blood feud. Spot monkey may not be the correct term to describe this, though; perhaps 'so laid back by nature that he acts high even when he hasn't touched any marijuana recently' fits better. It may just not be in RVD's emotional design to be able to get, or sell, being seriously angry. | |
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Special K was negatively contrasted with Low Ki, a "shoot-style" pro wrestler who relied more on stiff kicks (and unlike the other "stiffness spot monkeys" described above, usually knew how to be stiff responsibly). It didn't help Special K's reputation (or them in kayfabe) that Low Ki was one of ROH's top stars and kayfabe threats at the time. | |
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A non high-flying example would be Gail Kim from her first WWE run, who used complicated, nasty looking submission holds with no rhyme, reason or buildup. Ironically whenever she wrestles with her high flying moveset, she shows full awareness of how to tell a story with her moves. | |
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Atop the Fourth Wall will usually make note of something like this happening. If a book is utter crap, but has great artwork, Linkara will not shy from complimenting the art and making sure the viewers know he likes the artist's work. He will then break apart the story and show us its faults, thus proving that good artwork does not a good story make. | |
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A common criticism leveled at modern action games (perhaps most notoriously the later installments in the Modern Warfare series) is that they have become long strings of barely-connected Videogame Set Pieces that introduce new gameplay mechanics for one stage, climax with a big "wow" moment, then jump on to the next one and never use the just-introduced mechanic again. The similarity to spot monkeying is quite striking. | |
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Since debuting on All Elite Wrestling's flagship show Dynamite, all of Private Party's televised Tag Team matches featured them using dangerous moves exclusively, including a vaulting body press as a mid match spot even though it is almost visually identical to the senton bomb they tended to end the match with. This died down after they were conned by and became the lackeys of Matt Hardy. | |
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In his autobiography, Bret Hart accused the younger Japanese wrestlers from New Japan Pro-Wrestling (and Japanese-trained Bad News Allen/Brown) of this; the cult-like dojo system that produced them taught them not to "respect" (i.e., sell for) an opponent that wasn't legitimately beating the hell out of them. | |
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La Nazi had trouble finding work on the Mexican independent circuit during the 90s due to her unrelenting stiffness. Eventually Commandante Pierroth taught her how to protect opponents, after which she was quickly snatched up by AAA and CMLL. | |
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Some of the members of TNA's X Division, including Sonjay Dutt and Jay Lethal. Others, like AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels, employ a wrestling style with just as many impressive spots, but manage to actually chain them together with decent wrestling, and thus avoid being tarred with the spot monkey brush. It should be noted Alvarez still gave the match mentioned in the page quote three stars. "Good but could be better". | |
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WWE's Jeff Hardy went through a severe spot monkey phase (and likely inspired a whole generation of other monkeys) before his departure from the company, to the point he was called the Teddy Hart of WWE, but got somewhat better after his return; while he's still known for his tendency to dive off high things, he is at least much better about using such spots as part of a match's story. | |
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Michelle McCool was a more traditional example, doing handsprings and such for little reason than to show off (they would not even transition into another move or anything). She quickly got better about it but some fans really let it go and insist she was always a mediocre talent who was only being pushed because of her relationship with The Undertaker. | |
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La Nazi's counterpart North of the border is Trenesha Biggers, who was snatched up by TNA and Lucha Libre USA without receiving similar instructionnote She had been through WWE's Deep South developmental territory, but Deep South was considered a failure for a reason, leading to a fight after hitting Roxxi Laveaux too hard in the former and Bryan Alvarez giving out the rare minus five stars rating after she beat on Octagoncito and Mascarita Dorada in the latter. | |
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The Great Sasuke has been often called the original Japanese spot monkey, as not even injuries and ring wear have prevented him from trying to kill himself on the ring from time to time, though Hayabusa also came behind, and even Jushin Thunder Liger had his own moments (he was the innovator of the shooting star press, for instance). Extreme high-flyers from Japan like Kota Ibushi, Takuya Sugi and MIKAMI can trace their style back to them. | |
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One of the more common complaints from detractors of The Young Bucks is their matches tend to involve a ton of unnecessarily added flips and way too gratuitous use of superkicking. On the flip side, many also see the pair as a parody of this trope, as they are well aware of the smarky audience that tends to watch their matches (they named one of their moves after Dave Meltzer for crying out loud) and purposely act like spot monkeys as a way to piss them off in order to play the Heel role. | |
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The final confrontation between Brock Lesnar and Goldberg at WrestleMania 33 showed that the only way to get a really entertaining match (distinct from the 86-second Squash Match they'd had at Survivor Series the previous year) out of them was to go for a full-bore hoss spotfest. The two did nothing except trade signature moves and finishers for less than 5 minutes, with Goldberg hitting multiple spears (including one through the barricade outside the ring) and Lesnar delivering ten of his trademark German Suplexes, kicking out of Goldberg's Jackhammer (the first time anyone has ever done that other than the botched spot where Hulk Hogan was forced to kick out when Kevin Nash's interference was late) and finally putting Goldberg down with an F5. For the entire match neither man so much as threw a punch, it was just spot, spot, spot from bell to bell. Surprisingly, it was considered an excellent match between them, worlds better than their plodding and overly drawn-out encounter at WrestleMania XX 13 years earlier. | |
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Not to mention that both Punk AND Hart got blackballed (at least from that company) for a fight that they had while both employed by TNA. Thankfully Hart's spot monkeying and locker room hell raising gradually diminished over the years to the point then rookie wrestler Maxwell Jacob Friedman was able to convince Hart to not have a Canadian Destroyer off a ladder through a flaming table be one of the spots in an MLW match they had. | |
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One example of a "stiffness spot monkey" (as opposed to a stiff, but responsible wrestler) on the Japanese circuit was legend Stan Hansen; who would often legitimately injure his opponents due to the fact that he was legally blind. | |
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Even although the Kings's Road style ended up dying out, Dragon Gate would further inherit a similar variation of it, in a not small part because the influence Japanese wrestling had in American indy wrestling came full circle to influence DG. The promotion would be described by Vince Verhei of Figure Four Weekly as "two guys/teams come out, they do 75,000 moves as fast as they can in a 10 minute span, and then at a random point, one of them is pinned." | |
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MVP has also ranted about this on the independent circuit, though unlike those above his complaint was about opponents hitting him too lightly, saying too many wrestlers who had no business throwing kicks were suddenly trying to imitate a match between Low Ki and Samoa Joe that made the latter a star. | |
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Kelly Kelly used to have a big problem with this around 2009. As a former gymnast she would often pull out all kinds of headscissors, hurricanranas and complicated flips in every match with little rhyme or reason. When she was moved to SmackDown she worked to improve and has averted this now. | |
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A good portion of the Ring of Honor roster in the early days could be accused of this; most notable is the group Special K, who almost served as a Lampshading of the wrestling style. All of the members were rich kid ravers who were on so much drugs that they could pretty much kill themselves doing ridiculous moves with no rhyme or reason to it (conveniently sidestepping the question of how they actually had the motor coordination to actually pull these spots off in Kayfabe), and they flaunted their lack of storytelling and "respect for the business" for heel heat. Special K was negatively contrasted with Low Ki, a "shoot-style" pro wrestler who relied more on stiff kicks (and unlike the other "stiffness spot monkeys" described above, usually knew how to be stiff responsibly). It didn't help Special K's reputation (or them in kayfabe) that Low Ki was one of ROH's top stars and kayfabe threats at the time. Jack Evans, innovator of the 720 moonsault and leader of ROH's Generation Next and Vulture Squad, in a big bad way. Practically every single move he does involves at least one flip. The worst part, he's sloppy as hell and has landed on his head countless times, only surviving for how flexible he is. A particularly infamous example is indy primadonna Teddy Hart. In addition to being a royal pain backstage and having delusions about his own popularity, Teddy was well known for no-selling within seconds of a match's finish just so that he could show off with more athletic moves. The height of this was Teddy performing several unplanned spots off the top of a cage following a Ring of Honor cage match. The spots made no sense, diminished the story of the match by having Teddy be energetic enough to perform them, were a blatant attempt at drawing attention to himself, and put the other wrestlers in danger because they had to catch him with no preparation. ROH blackballed him, and future WWE Heavyweight Champion CM Punk publicly lambasted Teddy for his actions. This single incident is probably the most extreme example of everything that is wrong with the Spot Monkey style. Not to mention that both Punk AND Hart got blackballed (at least from that company) for a fight that they had while both employed by TNA. Thankfully Hart's spot monkeying and locker room hell raising gradually diminished over the years to the point then rookie wrestler Maxwell Jacob Friedman was able to convince Hart to not have a Canadian Destroyer off a ladder through a flaming table be one of the spots in an MLW match they had. |
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Also in lucha libre it's somewhat common for the técnicos (faces) to be spot monkeys and provide the high spots, and for the rudos (heels) to be more grounded and responsible for telling the story. Watch pretty much any Rey Mysterio Jr. vs Psicosis match from the 90s, and how Psicosis controls the pace and sets Mysterio up for his high spots. | |
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Most of the roster of Wrestling Society X. In some cases this was deliberate, as the show was only thirty minutes long and there was a segment set aside for a musical guest, so the wrestlers had to let everyone know what they could do in a hurry and still create a product that was distinct from WWE or TNA. They also had to appease executives who were most interested in explosions and broken furniture. | |
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John Morrison gets painted with this brush. Mostly since he's a former gymnast who now practices Le Parkour and Capoeira, his spots can be spectacular when he does do them. As far as everything in between them, he's improved since his debut, but many of his TV matches boil down to him doing three spots, followed by his finisher, with the other guy doing most of the work. Since leaving WWE and working for AAA and Lucha Underground as Johnny Mundo and TNA as Johnny Impact his psychology and consistency has improved substantially, so he rarely faces these accusations any more. | |
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