Former ECW/WCW/WWE Superstar Lance Storm recently shared what his biggest pet peeve is, and why Vince McMahon is to blame.
The current TNA producer was recently a special guest on the Insight with Chris Van Vliet podcast. Lance Storm mentioned that his biggest pet peeve in wrestling is wrestlers pinning their opponents by only hooking the leg and not putting any weight on the shoulders.
“I think my biggest pet peeve, and I blame Vince, is what I consider just terrible, s*itty covers on pins. It was a couple of years, actually probably five or eight years ago. But Vince became obsessed, you got to hook the leg, you got to hook the leg. And so everyone in WWE started doing this. And then I think everyone just copies it because that’s what they watch. But I would say nine out of ten pins today, the person goes towards the guy’s hips and grabs the leg and then rolls his back onto the guy’s stomach. And the guy making the pin is staring at the ceiling with no weight above the dude’s or female’s sternum, it’s like this is terrible. You’re not holding the shoulders down. It’s a terrible visual.”
Lance Storm has been harping TNA talent to pin the shoulders first
Storm also mentioned that he is training the wrestlers in TNA to ensure they pin their opponents correctly.
“Now there’s a lot fewer of them in TNA because I have been harping on the talent since day one. And it’s like, you can still hook the leg, but go to the shoulders, and you can just tell that everyone’s thinking leg because the person is laying there in front of them and they go towards the hips first. It’s like no, pin the shoulders, you can reach back and get the leg. And then the other thing that I harp on people is when you’re covering the shoulders, chest to chest, your head up, we can see your face. We’ve heard the expression Oh yeah, he always looks to the lights. He’s a loser. It’s a part of why she got over, but look at the way Rhea Ripley pins people. You know she won. And you know that she’s the boss. She’s in charge, she won this match,” Lance Storm said.
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