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Sweet 'chin' music?

Jan 28, 2007
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(SPOILER WARNING : IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE WRESTLING IS FAKE, STOP READING NOW)

I doubt I'm the first person to figure this out, but...

I was watching the ending of the 22 Jan edition of WWE Raw, when Shawn Michaels plays Sweet Chin Music on Kenny Dykstra, Carlito and Randy Orton in quick succession, and I was amazed by how loud the 'slap' sound of his trademark superkick was.

Now obviously he doesn't really kick them that hard in the chin, so there has to be another way they generate that sound, like the way wrestlers turn a 'chop' to the chest into an open-handed slap at the last moment, to make it sound louder.

So, being the obsessive that I am, I replayed the three superkicks several times, and I figured out how they do it.

Sweet 'Chin' Music?

See the Heart Break Kid's hand in the middle of the picture? It's clearly visible in white, because it's bandaged. That's Shawn SLAPPING HIS OWN ASS to generate the sound of the superkick. So HBK's finisher should really be called 'Sweet Ass Music'...

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Despite the snarkiness of the above observation, I have to say that stuff like that actually makes me appreciate wrestling more. As I've said long ago on one of my old blogs, really good wrestling is when the guys in the ring manage to make you suspend disbelief and believe that they really are fighting. Anyone's who has seen old-school Ric Flair matches or the epic Samoa Joe - Kenta Kobashi ROH chopfest would know what I mean.

Wrestling may be fake, but it takes a helluva lot of skill and timing to do it well. And these guys also have to be darned tough, because despite the clever tricks like the one described here, ultimately a lot of what these guys do to each other and themselves really hurts.

So yeah, in case you didn't know, I'm a big wrestling fan.