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This Professional Wrestling trope refers to when the effective counter to a hold or move is so obvious and boring, that the fan would rather see the receiver writhing in pain rather than block the move.
Ric Flair's Figure 4 leglock was notorious in being a boring move with an equally boring block. For years, the standard counter to the Figure 4 was to flip over, thus "reversing" the pressure of the move on the doer. In later years, it was blocked by preventing the second leg from applying pressure to the receiver's foot. An improvement was when as he was turning to initiate the lock, the receiver would kick him in the butt, which was infinitely better than doing the butt crab to the ropes and having the referee break the lock.
Contrast with Shockingly Cool Counter Attack.
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