Over The Top Rope Disqualification

Two wrestlers start the match and every five minutes another wrestler enters until all five participants are present.

Over the top rope disqualification.

Throwing someone out of the ring isn t. Over the top rope disqualification this one seems about as archaic as climbing the ropes but it is probably a bit more well known mostly because wcw held on to the rule until the mid to late nineties. Basically in the good ol days whenever a wrestler threw an opponent over the top rope it was counted as a disqualification. If a wrestler throws their opponent over the top rope to the outside they re disqualified.

Fatu ran at scott and scott sent him over the top rope. In japan the wcw and nwa titles were considered separate but wcw considered the nwa belt as representative of the same title. Wwe features a match called the championship scramble in which none of the wrestlers are eliminated. Scott was disqualified for doing so and the new wild samoans won the.

It was thought that if you threw someone over the top rope you would injure them. It stops people from being. The concept seems simple. The rules petitioned for by jacques pierre were a hodgepodge of bylaws used in territories everywhere but wwe.

Anyway it has to do with the same line of thought as in boxing you d get dq d if you threw the guy over the rope cause its not a part of the sport. Samir distracts the referee while sunil clotheslines breeze. And of course the rule made battle royals more special and dangerous. Samir steps out breeze flips over the top rope and lands on samir on the outside.

Throwing an opponent over the top rope constituted a disqualification not unlike old school nwa rules as did performing any offensive move from the top rope a no no during bill watts time in charge of wcw. Samir off the top rope connects a flying elbow. And traditionally it s a great rule. In the us rebroadcast wcw said that fujinami won the bout but didn t win the title because he threw flair over the top rope a disqualification under wcw rules.

And it was a way to do a dq finish with either the heel or the babyface getting dq d because a face could lose his temper throw a heel over the top rope and still be cheered as a face. At the time all wrestling organizations had the over the top rope rule. That went away when the high flyers really took over and were jumping over the top doing swan dives and such.