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|  #1 Posted on 22.4.04 2146.13 | Instant Rating: 3.91 | I have to get this off my chest. It's been bothering me for years.
HHH's sledgehammer is the lamest foreign object in wrestling history.
First, it's how he utilizes the damn thing. When he slams someone with it, he puts his hand over the head of it and jabs at them like he's playing pool. There's no momentum behind the blow, and he's CUSHIONING the strike with his hand. It looks unbelievably bogus. Even a cookie sheet looks more vicious than the way he pokes at people with his sledgehammer.
Secondly, a sledgehammer is overkill. That's a bone-crushing implement, and getting hit with it solidly(let's pretend it looks even remotely convincing, just for the sake of argument) and doing anything except twitch and writhe in pain clutching the smashed area, is ridiculous. Getting hit with a sledgehammer is a trip to the hospital, period.
So why does he sling this huge weapon around in the most unconvincing way possible? He looks like a total rube every time he does it. And we wonder why people laugh at wrestling. It's because of stupid, obviously fake shit like that.
Worst. Foreign object. Ever.
(edited by Jakegnosis on 22.4.04 2047)
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|  #2 Posted on 22.4.04 2158.56 | Instant Rating: 5.69 | Probably because if he didn't jab it like a pool cue, there's no way in hell he could attempt a headshot with it and have it in any way NOT look ridiculous
.......well, I suppose he could go the Scott Steiner route and use a foam sledgehammer, but then you risk it going all limp like his did on national television
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| #3 Posted on 22.4.04 2204.09 | Instant Rating: 3.00 | The same thing could be said about a baseball bat (that it is a bone-crushing implement). I think the reason why Triple H uses it is because it is easy to wield and it is believable that you could hurt someone without actually killing them with it. Baseball bats, brass knucks, etc. were already being used and the sledgehammer was the best thing that no one was using.
Otherwise, what else is left? An axe?!
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| #4 Posted on 22.4.04 2221.26 | Instant Rating: 3.91 | But why use it at all?
It looks like shit the way he uses it, and if he used it correctly, it would be either have to be fake or someone would die.
Baseball bats aren't as lethal as sledgehammers, and the only one I've seen in recent memory is Foley's Barbie, which would do much bloodier but more superficial damage because the barbed wire would cushion the blow while it shredded the flesh.
HHH should ditch the sledgehammer. It has no upside and he doesn't need a weapon, anyway, if he's the "greatest professional wrestler alive today."
(edited by Jakegnosis on 22.4.04 2209)
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| #5 Posted on 22.4.04 2300.16 | Instant Rating: 5.71 | CRZ used to have a satirical version of RAW (not written by Matt Hocking) on his website, and Triple H's weapon of choice was a giant metal H.
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| #6 Posted on 22.4.04 2323.20 | Instant Rating: 4.44 | Yes I think HHH should go fron the sledgehammer to a more realistice weapon like when Kane used to shoot fireballs at X-Pac like he was Liu Kang
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| #7 Posted on 23.4.04 0206.18 | Instant Rating: 4.52 | I would've loved to see Kane do Liu Kang's bicycle kick.
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| #8 Posted on 23.4.04 1013.01 | Instant Rating: 0.00 | The Sledgehammer is actually the Sledgehammer of Plot to be used by HHH when he needs to get a plot point across that he has been explaining in boring interviews for the past 3 weeks.
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|  #9 Posted on 23.4.04 1218.16 | Instant Rating: 0.00 | You say about it looking fake, what bout when they take chair shots to the head, most of them block it with their hands, and its SOOO obvious
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| #10 Posted on 23.4.04 1223.38 | Instant Rating: 4.70 | Originally posted by TheOne
You say about it looking fake, what bout when they take chair shots to the head, most of them block it with their hands, and its SOOO obvious
Yes, they block it and yes it's obvious. But that doesn't keep it from looking fairly realistic most of the time. If you were in a fight and a guy swung a chair at your head, if you didn't have time to move and just saw him out of the corner of your eye, what would you do?? Throw your hands up in an attempt to block it.
However, if in a real fight you had a sledge hammer...you wouldn't pool cue someone.
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| #11 Posted on 23.4.04 1346.07 | Instant Rating: 5.69 | | He could solve this problem by abandoning the shots to the head and going for the "shot to the stomach, shot to the back, several shots to their corpse" route he went with Goldberg and Shawn.....which would be much more effective looking than his pool cue attack..... | ScottLadd
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| #12 Posted on 23.4.04 1349.00 | Instant Rating: 2.84 | | Why not just use his nose. I agree about it be lame. Its not a lame weapon just how he use it all times. If he used it to put people off WWE TV only for while it look effective more. | oldschoolhero
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| #13 Posted on 23.4.04 1350.27 | Instant Rating: 5.38 | "However, if in a real fight you had a sledge hammer...you wouldn't pool cue someone."
Not true. if we're going to get ridiculously over-thought here, the logic may be that whilst a pool-cue-style shot would do enough damage behind the ref's back to win a match, swinging for the fences outright would kill 'em, which could put a major cramp on his career aspirations. Hence, he goes for the option that gets the job done, but doesn't go for overkill because he could end up in a jail cell.
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| #14 Posted on 23.4.04 1352.59 | Instant Rating: 4.60 | Originally posted by oldschoolhero
"However, if in a real fight you had a sledge hammer...you wouldn't pool cue someone WITH YOUR HAND HELD OVER THE ACTUAL BLUDGEONING PART OF YOUR WEAPON OF CHOICE."
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| #15 Posted on 23.4.04 1400.01 | Instant Rating: 5.38 | ....which is the EXACT SAME WAY every other weapon shot is delivered. It's the equivalent of a loaded fist, but with a little more oomph. What's the problem with that?
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