WWE Hall of Famer Bully Ray voiced strong criticism toward a common trend in modern wrestling where wrestlers fail to sell.
Speaking on Busted Open Radio, Bully Ray specifically took issue with the so-called “no-sell” strike exchanges sequences where two wrestlers repeatedly hit each other without showing any pain. He criticized the trend as a “bastardized version of a Japanese spirit.”
“I’m watching guys just sit there pounding each other in the side of the head a dozen times a piece, not moving a muscle. I don’t get it. It’s a bastardized version of a Japanese spirit of the fight. It doesn’t translate well to me.”
Bully Ray explained that if a wrestler gets hit in the side of the head with a forearm, there should naturally be a physical reaction.
“If some guy hits me in the side of the head with a forearm. I guarantee you my head is gonna get pushed back… just from the impact alone.” He believes this lack of realism further exposes the business. “I think it exposes wrestling, the actual wrestling, of pro wrestling, even more than it’s been exposed already.” [H/T: wrestlingnews]
Bully Ray believes no-selling is damaging the wrestling business. Fans on social media have echoed that concern, criticizing wrestlers for no-selling their opponents’ finishers and claiming it reduces the intensity of the matches.
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