Over The Top Rope Wrestling

The concept seems simple.

Over the top rope wrestling. Directed and written by libnan ayoub and damian kringas over the top rope charts the amazing events that saw world championship wrestling establish itself as a weekend ritual in loungerooms across the country and became a media juggernaut that mesmerised the nation during the 1960s and 70s. In professional wrestling a battle royal sometimes battle royale. The wording was important as it left room for interpretation. Well in practice it wasn t that easy.

An accepted term in american wrestling for a springboard crossbody where the wrestler goes from the inside of the ring over the top ring rope to the outside. The tricky part here was that a wrestler had to be intentionally thrown over the top rope. Plural battles royal or battle royals is a multi competitor match type in which wrestlers are eliminated until one is left and declared winner. Tough trucker lincoln hawk is determined to win back his son and triumph at the world arm wrestling championships.

If a wrestler throws their opponent over the top rope to the outside they re disqualified. Typical battle royals begin with a number of participants in the ring who are then eliminated by going over the top rope and having both feet touch the venue floor. With sylvester stallone robert loggia susan blakely rick zumwalt.