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<blockquote data-quote="Moulin Rogue" data-source="post: 150002" data-attributes="member: 1192">Well, finishers have an aura of lethality and invincibility attached to them. It supposed to be the thrilling climax of the match. Except in some video games, it's supposed to be very rare to kick out of one after you get hit with it. I just wouldn't want a wrestler delivering a boot to the gut and popping the Stunner on right away, thus ending the epic main event in five seconds (although big matches will sometimes 'tease' insta-kill finishers like the the Stunner early on, with the near-victim barely countering or wriggling free). I think such moves are popular finishers because the players think it gives them an extra way to win, even if there isn't anything in the e-fed's rules that says it does. There's more room for error when your finisher is a high-risk move off the top rope that takes forever to set up when you're tired, and can't be used to fend off three guys at once in a back room or in the ring after the match (where things magically change and you suddenly can go around doing your insta-kill finisher left and right on everyone in sight).</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Moulin Rogue, post: 150002, member: 1192"] [b][/b] Well, finishers have an aura of lethality and invincibility attached to them. It supposed to be the thrilling climax of the match. Except in some video games, it's supposed to be very rare to kick out of one after you get hit with it. I just wouldn't want a wrestler delivering a boot to the gut and popping the Stunner on right away, thus ending the epic main event in five seconds (although big matches will sometimes 'tease' insta-kill finishers like the the Stunner early on, with the near-victim barely countering or wriggling free). I think such moves are popular finishers because the players think it gives them an extra way to win, even if there isn't anything in the e-fed's rules that says it does. There's more room for error when your finisher is a high-risk move off the top rope that takes forever to set up when you're tired, and can't be used to fend off three guys at once in a back room or in the ring after the match (where things magically change and you suddenly [i]can[/i] go around doing your insta-kill finisher left and right on everyone in sight). [/QUOTE]

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