Dean Malenko was a careless, dangerous worker!

[MushroomX]

Ultimo could have gotten hurt! What is Malenko thinking tossing him over the top rope! DANGEROUS!

Serious note, the Over The Top rule itself was one of those things where Wrestlers probably forgot that it existed. They probably just do that shyt, and fans would look at each other and think, "Was that a Disqualification?"

 

[MenacingMonk]

I never knew about that rule until years ago.

 

[Ya' Cousin Cleon]

I miss when WCW was still in it's quasi-it's a sport phase.

 

[StarClout]

Bret told y’all bout Malenko back in 1999. He wasn’t a jam up guy

Spoiler

Seriously tho, what in the hell is a jam up guy?

 

[ADK]

This is like the only thing my dad remembers of wrestling and it’s obscure as fukk

 

[MushroomX]

I never knew about that rule until years ago.

This is like the only thing my dad remembers of wrestling and it’s obscure as fukk

More weird rules

 

[HipHopStan]

They used that rule in a storyline toward the end of it's life in 1997. Buff Bagwell had defeated Lex Luger on a few occasions because Lex would carelessly throw him over the top rope like a lunkhead. Afterward, Buff would get in the ring and celebrate like he just won the Super Bowl while Lex stood there like . That was their entire build up to their match at Starrcade 97. I think that rule officially died at the beginning of 1998. Mercifully.

 

[John Reena]

I remember Cowboy Bill Watts starting this rule lol