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about moves they will give or want to receive. Usually this
is discreet, though occasionally one might be able to hear or
spot it on TV.
Selling, or exaggerating moves. Some moves, like the
"stunner" and the "cutter", are not particularly painful for the
receiving wrestler and he is the one who has to 'sell' it to make
it look convincing. You might see wrestlers jump a couple of
feet away after getting a chop or an uppercut — some 'sell'
more than others. The powerhouse wrestlers, of course, deliberately
"no sell" moves. If you don't 'sell' right, it looks bad.
Wrestlers protecting each other. You will find that high
flying moves almost always hit their target, and in fact it can
be quite obvious in a few cases that the receiving wrestlers
open their arms and bodies to 'catch' the attacking wrestler.
Wrestlers help each other out in potentially dangerous moves
by, for instance, tapping the receiving wrestler when he is
about to execute the move (the 'DDT'), or by releasing the
arms of the receiving wrestler so he can protect his face and
head upon impact with the mat (Triple H's 'Pedigree'). Very
large, or powerful wrestlers must protect opponents, for instance,
by not putting all his weight on the receiving wrestler
in high-impact moves.
Wrestlers protecting themselves. Wrestlers will brace
themselves for impact, for instance, by falling in a certain way
or using their hands and knees to cushion an impact so they
don't hit their heads. In some potentially dangerous moves,
like the Undertaker's tombstone piledriver, you can actually
see the receiving wrestler literally hugging the attacking
wrestler tightly as a precaution.
The dangerous part of the tombstone piledriver here is
that the attacking wrestler (wearing black) might lose his
grip on an opponent (wearing white) who is suspended upside
down with no protection to his head. Done correctly, the
receiving wrestler actually does not impact the ground at all.
His long hair and the speed of the movement disguises the
fact that receiving wrestler's head is above the attacking wrestler's
knees.
Wrestlers assisting each other. Like Brian says, although
wrestlers are very strong and able to carry much more than
their own body weight, many moves still require the assis-
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