11/13/2025
Weird wrestling pet peeves (in no order):
* Loose rear chin locks or sleeper holds. You're trying to take away their air, there shouldn't be any between your arm and them.
HONERABLE MENTION: Loose submissions. Especially from people who market themselves as grapplers or submission artists.
* Every match ends with a reason other than someone is a better wrestler. Run-ins, interference, foreign object, etc. I've worked on events where people had so much ego around not wanting to lose that this is the decision a promoter made. It's a bad decision. It makes the event feel sloppy.
HONERABLE MENTION: When it's the same repeated reason. Every match has a run in, every match has a chair shot, etc.
* Untrained managers/valets. An untrained wrestler at least understand they're about to do something physical. Untrained seconds who don't understand the physicality towards others or to themselves, don't have timing, or who can't talk drive me crazy.
HONERABLE MENTION: Untrained wrestlers.
