The Heart of a Phighter: The Ending of a Tag Match

Welcome to the Heart of a Phighter.

This article's topics: The Ending of a Tag Team Match

Hello all, this week, the Heart of a Phighter talks about the ending of tag matches, in the glory leading up to the tag team match at GAB that should steal the show unless Finlay and Hornswoggle win.

Let's talk about..the tinkerbell effect. Okay, I can see you're going, what's that? Tinkerbell? The fairy from Peter Pan? Okay, flashback to your childhood memories. Remember when Tinkerbell was about to die, and they were all, if you believe in Tink, Tink will come back to life? Imply that in WWE. Okay, so let's say John Morrison has a headlock locked on Jeff Hardy. Matt Hardy, on the apron, starts banging on the steel steps. This starts a clap, the claps continue and get louder, Jeff gets up and breaks the hold. Tinkerbell effect. This is used in just about every single tag team match, except for ones where Finlay/Hornswoggle are competing.

After that, is the double knockout maneuver. The word double is not to be used lightly here. This maneuver usually is something that has two superstars selling one move too big. It can be anything from a double clothesline to heck, we haven't seen it yet, but we may see in the future the superkick be used for it. The person dishing it out, or the dishee for this argument, usually does a bad job and commits a complete oversell. This leads to the hot tag.

The hot tag, the glory move for faces. This consists of something like a clothesline to the legal opponent, and then one to the illegal opponent. After that, the face usually tries to hit a trademark on the legal opponent, and it is either broken up by the illegal or modified. If it is broken, the crowd basically cuts itself off.

We're getting close to the finish here. Next up is the 'to the outside' move. This is a simple move where the illegal opponent is thrown out of the ring, or forced out by a move like a clothesline where both the heel and the face go over the ropes.

Finisher time! This is usually either one finisher to set up another, or just one. This always kills off the opponent and ends the tag match. Always. That is the end of the tag match, and I am the Philly - WAIT! There's something else for those of you have actually gotten to the end of the article!

WWE's segment of the week, selected from the 7/11 Smackdown, 7/14 Raw, or 7/15 ECW.

Way to Listen to the Boss, Guys

We head to the 7/14 Raw. Stephanie and Shane McMahon are begging for unity once more, and saying if no unity, actions will be taken. Yeah, they expect to have unity in a wrestling show. I cleaned my ears for a good five minutes after this. Then they go to outside the ring - to see Shawn Michaels beating on Chris Jericho! There goes the unity! Security guards break this up like they usually do, with a poor effort at first, and then a great one. These kinds of segments were good 3 years ago, and no other segment really sticks out in my mind this week.

Ladies and gentlemen, I am the Philadelphia Phighter. That is the Heart of the Phighter. Wait, give me it back! I'm still need to use it! - TPP.

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COMMENTS

Comment # 1

i see you've been really rude when criticizing fellow article writers, let me use a quotation from yourself: "...I can't go along and find a point where you really have an opinion that sticks in my head." i see no point in posting this article except for one week of supportership

Posted by wolfmask on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 2

philly the article might have been better if you put more stuff in it it was somewhat short

Posted by tbrhe on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 3

What??? I re-read the article like two times and I am not even sure what it was about. That article made absolutely no sense what so ever.

Posted by Harrison James on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 4

Hate to correct you but there was an ECW tag match with Impact Players vs ??? (maybe bWo), in which 2 wrestlers hit simultaneous superkicks. . . it was sloppy but it has been done.

Posted by The Brick on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 5

Too short.

No point.
Lame.

Posted by Vince on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 6

I'm embarrassed to call this an artic.e.
Take it down Glide.

Posted by The Philadelphia Phighter on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 7

Sorry but really what was the point in running down tag matches...everyone knows what happens because its almost always the same thing no need to tell us about it in an article...no offence i like your articles but this one lacked a point

Posted by Shogun on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 8

very good article best I've seen well the thing I like is it's length.

Posted by ZLW on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 9

wow ZLW have you seen the other articles?(sorry TPP lol)

Posted by Shogun on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 10

Come on guys, this is a good article, its true and short so, i think its a good article :)

Posted by Monkey King 4 Ever on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 11

jhjhjhj

Posted by bagli on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 12

how to learn skills

Posted by Bagli on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 13

I kinda dug the article but yeah it kinda needed a little extra sauce or spice, probably woulda been a good short blog but I guess the TWG punters desire more substance in there articles.
Anyways looking forward to next time TPP.
You guys that are being nasty, chill, everyone makes mistakes tis how we grow and learn, otherwise none of us would have ever walked :P
Peace

Posted by Yuri on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 14

Sucked...bigtime.

Posted by The One on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 15

keep up the good work

Posted by Wrecking Ball on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 16

Short and simple but no pictures!?????!

Posted by Jake Temple on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 17

Good Job:)

Posted by Jose Cena on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 18

it doesn't need to be taken down, it needs to be expanded. we all agree that tag matches are somehow predictable, but how does it impact on the current tag team division in wwe, since apparently there might be a revival after the match at the gab?

Posted by wolfmask on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 19

The title of this article is "The Ending of a Tag Team Match." Now you described how all tag matches end, and of course you're right. All matches pretty much end this way. However, you did not tell us if you like or dislike this ending, and we think you're trying to give us a reason not to watch another tag match ever again. You gave us no conclusion to what you think should have been done, if anything at all. This is definitely an incomplete article, and needs revision before I can call it acceptable. I do however like like the RAW segment you added. That kind of stuff I don't think ever goes old. Would be better if Stone Cold was around not to listen to the McMahons however, but I can't blame that one on you Phighter.... or can I??

Posted by The Ripper on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 20

This article made me realize how predictable tag matches are. They really do end the same way. The WWE needs to change things up when it comes to tag team wrestling.

Posted by JCR on Friday, July 18, 2008

Comment # 21

Start Preaching What Your Teaching

Posted by Cody Roark on Saturday, July 19, 2008

Comment # 22

lamelamelamelamelame

Posted by Vince on Saturday, July 19, 2008

Comment # 23

Phighter - I hate to criticise, but I was really looking forward to reading this, and now I wish I hadn't. Hope your next instalment is longer and has a point :)

Posted by TMP on Saturday, July 19, 2008

Comment # 24

TPP: I hope you proofread before you post your article. The grammatical errors are distracting. Besides that, an OK post.

Posted by Mono on Sunday, July 20, 2008

Comment # 25

whaty

Posted by rabmaliv on Friday, July 25, 2008

Comment # 26

my name explains it

Posted by worst article ever on Saturday, July 26, 2008

Comment # 27

Too short, good article, but to short.

Posted by Max X on Thursday, July 31, 2008