Over The Top Rope Disqualification

The concept seems simple.

Over the top rope disqualification.

At the time all wrestling organizations had the over the top rope rule. Basically in the good ol days whenever a wrestler threw an opponent over the top rope it was counted as a disqualification. 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. 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.

Competitors are permitted to leave their position and attack wrestlers outside of the ring such as when one or both wrestlers have been thrown over the top rope. Two wrestlers start the match and every five minutes another wrestler enters until all five participants are present. The new wild samoans had the advantage over scott until scott fought back with a frankensteiner to fatu. Fatu ran at scott and scott sent him over the top rope.

After scott avoided a big splash from savage rick and fatu came in without being tagged and rick attacked both. Scott was disqualified for doing so and the new wild samoans won the. 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. Samir off the top rope connects a flying elbow.

Throwing someone out of the ring isn t. That went away when the high flyers really took over and were jumping over the top doing swan dives and such. If a wrestler throws their opponent over the top rope to the outside they re disqualified. It was thought that if you threw someone over the top rope you would injure them.

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. Samir steps out breeze flips over the top rope and lands on samir on the outside. And of course the rule made battle royals more special and dangerous. And traditionally it s a great rule.

It stops people from being. The rules petitioned for by jacques pierre were a hodgepodge of bylaws used in territories everywhere but wwe. 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.