When one enters a career like professional wrestling, they should know what they’re signing up for: critical breaks, and injuries of all kinds (both unintentional and planned). If Montel Vontavius ​​Porter (MVP) has learned one important lesson during his 27-year career, it’s how to make the crowd work if injury layoffs are part of the scripted plan. When asked on his “Marking Out” podcast “if the ringside doctor pauses a match to check for a concussion, how do you restart the match without losing the crowd,” AEW’s on-screen manager and now an occasional injured syndicated wrestler gave two answers: one from a heel’s perspective, and the other from a babyface’s perspective.
“I would say if you have a competent therapist who knows what he’s doing, my first instinct is to… try to get to that person a few times and let them pull me back,” the ring veteran responded. “If I were a therapist, if I were a babyface, I would show aggressive concern… I would like to beat him up, but I don’t want to see him get hurt.”
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Regardless of whether the uninjured side is the heel or the face, MVP emphasizes that the best course of action is to sell or not sell your focus during this stall. During his first run in WWE, MVP recalled which matches depicted the best injury sell-outs and which wrestlers inspired him to create the best heel moves when the situation arose.
“Someone got hit hard and they paused the game for a minute and they were checking on the babyface Finlay was fighting… Finlay, he was still in the crowd as a heel. You know, he was still pacing,” MVP recalled. “As soon as Finlay got up he gave the wrestlers a message, you got a moment… He told the referee to tell them. The referee went over and said, when you get up, they rang the bell, jumped on Finlay and started beating his ass… and the crowd immediately came on board.”
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