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Laughing off huge defeats, popping back up from emphatic finishers, and more hilarious no-sells.
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00:00From instantly popping back up and strutting back down the ramp after being dealt an L,
00:03to waltzing out on Raw the very next night as though nothing ever happened post-defeat,
00:08this lot made a mockery of looking up at the lights when all was said and done.
00:11Gareth here from WhatCulture Wrestling and here are 10 wrestlers who no-sold huge losses.
00:16Number 10, Brock Lesnar quickly turns his attention to the game.
00:19Remember when former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar returned to WWE programming in 2012
00:24after 8 long years away? And then went on to beat the ever-loving crap out of John Cena in
00:29his first bout back, only to end up hilariously on the receiving end of an attitude adjustment
00:33on the still steps and a loss out of the gates? Well, don't worry if that last part is a little
00:38fuzzy because the beast in Count It himself also seemed to forget all about that particular detail
00:43when it came time to rock back up on Monday Night Raw the very next night.
00:47Showing not so much as a scratch from the previous evening's bloody Extreme Rules War,
00:51Lesnar defiantly announced that the world got to witness first-hand Brock Lesnar bringing the pain.
00:56And while Triple H would do his utmost to remind the returning contract rebel of the actual result
01:00of said Cena skirmish, Brock effectively no-sold the contest, an odd on-screen political drama
01:06between the game and then head of talent relations John Laurinaitis, before beating the piss out of
01:10his next sparring partner to set up their incoming program. If Brock doesn't mention it, it didn't happen.
01:15Number 9, Finn Balor joins the Judgment Day.
01:18Finally aligning with fellow Bullet Club alumni AJ Styles on WVTV earlier this year, it looked as though
01:23Finn Balor could actually be on the cusp of a spell not involving him eating many a defeat
01:28at the hands of whoever Vince McMahon was obsessed with at that current moment.
01:31Rather depressingly, that promise was quickly extinguished by the time Balor, Styles and Liv
01:35Morgan eventually went at it with the Judgment Day at Hell in a Cell, with the Prince getting
01:39emphatically spared post-Rhea Ripley blockade, en route to being pinned by the villain's
01:44overlord Edge.
01:45In a rather unexpected turn of events though, instead of limping out onto Monday Night Raw the
01:49next night with his tail well and truly between his Balor legs, the former NXT Champion was all
01:54smiles as he looked set to join up with Edge's gothic faction. And in a move that was likely more
01:59of a reflection of the WWE Hall of Famer not being all too keen to head down the supernatural road
02:04with his disciples, Balor would then help oust Edge as he bizarrely took over leadership duties just
02:0924 hours on from being embarrassed by the trio and being responsible for his unit picking up the
02:15feud ending loss. It's all a bit strange.
02:178. John Cena Rolls With The Finishing Elimination Chamber Punches
02:21Around the time of the late noughties John Cena had successfully evolved into the near indomitable
02:26presence, more often than not found spearheading WWE programming. So having Super Cena be suddenly
02:31dumped out of an Elimination Chamber bout midway through the action was the sort of development
02:35capable of dropping Jaws the world over. And that was precisely what went down during No Way Out 2009's
02:41World Heavyweight Championship skirmish as he consumed a whopping 3 rather over finishers on
02:46his way out the door. Instead of selling the sheer impact of being cold breakered, speared and 619'd
02:51into next week however, Cena had other ideas. Now nobody should have expected the now former
02:56world champ to lay battered for the remaining 7 minutes or so, but having Cena comically roll out
03:01of the ring like a man in need of a quick breather made the preceding trio of finishers look strangely
03:06feeble. When you're nailed with 3 of the most devastating moves of the period in quick succession,
03:10would it have been too much to ask for a moment to let the weight of the finishers land before
03:14darting off out of the action? Probably not Cena. Number 7 Bray Wyatt looks forward to a fresh start.
03:20Given the fact Bray Wyatt's children's TV presenter alter ego skipped back into the spotlight on the
03:25first Raw post 37th show of shows and declared he felt great and that this could be a brand new
03:31start for him and all of his funhouse critters, it definitely looked like WWE were wasting little
03:36time burying his wholly disappointing Viper debacle and defeat in the ground. However in perhaps an
03:41even stranger development than Wyatt's fiend surviving being literally burned alive, the star
03:46would then completely disappear from WWE programming in the subsequent weeks before being ultimately
03:51cut loose in July. Far from delivering the fresh start that was gleefully pitched just a few hours
03:56on from another momentum killer of a loss, Wyatt's comical no selling of Orton's red tinted riot now sits as
04:02his final act of a 12-year roller coaster of a WWE ride. Number 6 Hawke pings up after a 5-star
04:08chokeslam. The May 13th 2003 edition of Monday Night Raw saw the returning road warriors collide with
04:14world tag team champions Kane and Rob Van Dan over the duo's straps. Despite this match acting as something
04:20of an audition for a full-time spot on the roster for the legendary unit, it ultimately wasn't to be and
04:25their chances likely weren't helped by Hawke's unflattering reaction to the champ's chokeslam 5-star
04:30frog splash combination. With the iconic Legion of Doom putting in a solid enough shift up to that
04:35point, an evidently vexed Hawke reacted to eating the majority of the damage on offer in the bout
04:40by darting back up to his feet before RVD and the big red machine could even raise their titles in
04:45triumph. In the end this would also act as Hawke's final appearance in a WWE ring before he succumbed to
04:51a sudden heart attack a few months later. Number 5 AJ Styles shrugs off an anything but phenomenal
04:56mania debut. AJ Styles didn't get off to the most successful of starts when it comes to his show
05:01of show's career. In a bout that looked as though it had show stealer written all over it heading into
05:06WrestleMania 32, the phenomenal one went at it with one-time Y2 AJ teammate Chris Jericho in a
05:12serviceable rematch. However, upon doing the favors for a veteran who clearly didn't need the grandest
05:17stage rub, the events that would unfold on the following night's episode of Raw made that call look
05:22even more baffling in hindsight. Dumped into a fatal four-way to decide new WWE Champion Roman Reigns
05:28first challenger, the former New Japan Pro Wrestling and TNA darling completely no-sold his mania failure
05:34and set his sights firmly on the big dog strap as the likes of Sami Zayn, Kevin Owens and Chris Jericho
05:39all joined him in scrapping for a spell. If that wasn't enough, Styles would then go on to win the whole
05:44damn thing in the evening's main event, completely palming off his lackluster first night on the
05:48mania job in next to no time. Number four, Braun Strowman instantly gets one back on Tyson Fury.
05:54Acting as the culmination of a program that now feels as though it went down in an entirely alternate
05:59reality, Braun Strowman found himself squaring up against heavyweight world champion boxer Tyson Fury
06:05under the bright lights of the King Fard Stadium in Saudi Arabia back at Crown Jewel 2019.
06:10Determined not to have the mainstream superstar suffer a loss in his first ever professional wrestling
06:14showing, but sensing that having their monster among men look like an utter fool wouldn't do them any
06:19favours either, WWE hatched a master plan of sorts to ensure both men looked strong as the dust settled
06:24on the monster mash. Well, they tried. Hot on the heels of the Gypsy King picking up the W via deeply
06:30deflating count-out, on the back of a knock-out right hand on the apron, Strowman effectively
06:35shrugged off a shot that had put down genuine boxing sensations to deliver a running power slam on the
06:40victor mere moments after said losing effort. Further diluting the Saudi showdown, the two
06:45apparent bitter rivals would then share a polite handshake in the ring on the next edition of SmackDown,
06:50before obviously beating the piss out of the B-Team.
06:533. Austin Aries Popped Straight Back Up
06:55By the time Austin Aries bolted upright seconds after Johnny Impact's crowning moment at Bound for Glory 2018,
07:02most had chosen to entirely check out when it pertained to the wacky developments usually found
07:06going down within the promotion during this odd period. Matters weren't exactly
07:10helped by Impact's reaction to Aries and Johnny's surreal Twitter feud either, with the Wrestling
07:14Observer later reporting that management wasn't happy with their unapproved work on the social media
07:20platform due to it potentially contradicting their plans in the long run. It's still not exactly clear
07:25as to whether or not the promotion actually greenlit the abrupt exit post-defeet too. Despite Dave Meltzer
07:30feeling as though it would only be a matter of time before Aries showed up on the Impact scene again,
07:34on the back of his contract expiring, further behind the scenes developments would result in the
07:38greatest man who ever lived, ultimately declining a new deal and ending his Impact career on one of
07:43the strangest beats of its era. And that is saying something.
07:462. MJF Brushes Off His Wardlow Squash
07:49Thoroughly delivering on a storyline that had been unfolding since the early days of AEW's existence,
07:54Maxwell Jacob Freeman would finally be forced to pay for his consistently despicable treatment of his
07:59one-time war dog bodyguard at this year's Double or Nothing event. However, instead of the focus being on
08:05Wardlow's star-making performance throughout the program and during the emphatic squash on the
08:09night of the PPV itself, the wrestling world was more interested in what the future held for the
08:13salt of the earth on the back of a rather eventful weekend. Fresh off of no showing a meet and greet
08:18before the May 29th event, MJF was shockingly handed a live mic on Dynamite to air his grievances in
08:24regards to not being paid the same amount as ex WWE guys. And while Maxwell did at least momentarily offer a
08:30nod to the substantial battering he was subjected to at the hands of his former employee, the speed in
08:34which he glossed over that absolute massacring took pretty much all of the attention away from
08:38the pair's near three-year-long narrative and directed it solely on his new work-shoot war with
08:43his boss. 1. Triple H Laughs Off Jeff Hardy
08:46After finally returning to the WWE stage and seemingly getting a handle on his demons at the time,
08:52it looked as though Jeff Hardy was well on his way to becoming a serious main event player in 2007.
08:57An Intercontinental title win would eventually pave the way for an intriguing rivalry with Triple H,
09:02as the two popular faces went at it over the right to challenge for the WWE Championship at the 2008
09:07Royal Rumble events at Armageddon. And while the game would be forced to do the J-O-B at this moment
09:12in time, in order to give Hardy the much needed rub in the lead up to an eventual showdown with Randy
09:17Orton at the next PPV, Tripp still had a few tricks up his sleeve to ensure he didn't come out of the
09:21closely fought battle looking inferior to his friendly adversary. Selling the nature of arguably
09:26Hardy's most important singles win at that point, in the same way you would being cheekily pranked by
09:31a younger sibling. A genuinely surprising and thrilling result was entirely undercut by the
09:36cerebral assassin's smug grin, and with it later becoming known just how against Hardy's eventual
09:41ascent to the top of the mountain Tripp's legitimately was behind the scenes, it's not too hard to see what
09:46his intentions likely were with these petty losing antics. And that's our list of any other wrestlers who
09:51know sold huge losses. Let us know all about them in the comments section right down below and do
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10:08I've been Gareth from WhatCulture Wrestling, thank you as always for clicking on this video today
10:12and hopefully I will see your faces very, very soon. Bye bye!
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