Stuff no one does anymore? Options

[TimLivingston]

Fines are still used all the time on indy shows, and are laughable to the point of insulting the audience's intelligence. The promoter will be blabbing about how this guy is being charge thousands of dollars for doing whatever, and anyone with a mastery of simple arithmetic can look around the crowd and quickly calculate that this phony fine is a larger dollar figure than the show's entire ticket sales that night.

I'm still waiting for the promoter who threatens to the fine the wrestler $20 and the two hot dogs he will receive at the end of the night.

[Jingus]

I've seen it done properly exactly one time: after a heel punched out a referee, the promoter said that the ref was gonna get the wrestler's pay envelope for the night. That's perfectly believable, and not naming a number gets around the fact that the pay envelope probably held no more than ten or twenty bucks. But man, I have seen a lot of fines where the amount charged is stupidly huge on these tiny outlaw shows.

[Dylan Waco]

I saw an indy show once where the promoter came out and gave away free concessions to be paid off from the heels pay after he gave a ref a piledriver.

[Mr Wrestling X]

They still fine wrestlers in some British promotions if they perform a piledriver, although it's pretty obvious that it's a work designed to get heels over. (especially when they refuse to pay up)

[tomk]

I used to love it when the face got thrown out of the ring after a period of being dominated by the heel, and the heel would not let him back in...punishing him back to the floor with various kicks, punches, and assorted fouls. After the third or fourth time, the face would get mad, find a way back into the ring, and quickly get the heel begging off. The face would then go on the offence with various corner whips, backdrops, dropkicks, etc. The crowd, of course, went nuts the whole time.

It was also usually a sign that the end of the match was near...not always, but most of the time.

If this is still done with any regularity, I'd be curious to know if it works on any level. I don't picture it being an effective spot in a match of this era....but that's just me.

That basic king of the hill structure is used alot in the second or third fall (heel brawling fall) in lots of lucha matches. People still pop.

[Mad Dog]

Watching old NWA shows. No one does the bodyslam where they fold the arm behind the opponents back and then slam them right onto the arm.

[Bob Morris]

So when was the last time any wrestler did the following:

* 10-punch count in the corner.
* Ramming wrestler into the turnbuckles as the audience counts along.
* Double noggin knocker in a tag match.