Who Likes the Term Pinfall?

[cornercoach 445]

.....it is also a term used in bowling.... seems like a double negative......

[ionel 582]

1 hour ago, cornercoach said:

.....it is also a term used in bowling.... seems like a double negative......

only wrestlers who claim they "won states" but if you won states by pinfall then is it a double plural negative?  ;_;

[KTG119 713]

Jason Bryant is a huge fan of the term

[kgschalhoub 30]

Stupid word. How about just pin.

[gromit 385]

redundancy is annoying

[buf87 68]

Pin or Fall, but not Pinfall

[Witherman 248]

so we can say tech fall but not pinfall?

in addition, its "state" not "states"

[gimpeltf 795]

32 minutes ago, Witherman said:

so we can say tech fall but not pinfall?

in addition, its "state" not "states"

Yes, no.

[TBar1977 2,756]

Mark Hall won state's. 

[CoachWrestling 196]

no one

[Husker_Du 377]

I love it....in the way that something is so bad, it's good. like sharknado.

and it's "states"; it's not "World". 

[Old Corps 80]

Growing up in Jersey in the 60s/70s, it was “states”

As in “he won states last year.”

 

[HurricaneWrestling2 340]

Pinfall was still in official use by the NCAA until the mid-1950s.  We should keep it as part of our historical legacy IMO.  Plus it sounds much more dramatic to hear an announcer shout "Winner by Pin-Fall!"  

[TobusRex 1,221]

Never used it. Always call them either 1) pins, or 2) falls.

[Old Corps 80]

I remember reading the Easton, Pa newspaper in the early 70s and when it listed match box scores, the term “threw” was often used to indicate a pin.

As in...

”Darwin Brodt threw Joe Schmuckatelli - 5:19”

[potentiallydangerous 101]

Why do birds have pinfeathers?

[John Morgan 2]

Trendy, hip, and stupid.

[TobusRex 1,221]

26 minutes ago, Old Corps said:

I remember reading the Easton, Pa newspaper in the early 70s and when it listed match box scores, the term “threw” was often used to indicate a pin.

As in...

”Darwin Brodt threw Joe Schmuckatelli - 5:19”

Guess they figured every throw ended in a fall :D

[lu_alum 577]

3 hours ago, Witherman said:

so we can say tech fall but not pinfall?

in addition, its "state" not "states"

1. Only if you agree that boxing can end a bout in the following ways:  "TKO" and "Knockout KO"

2. Not in PA

Edited February 1 by lu_alum

[kgschalhoub 30]

How about we get rid of "tech fall" and call it a "superior decision." That fixes the problem. So we have major decision, superior decision, and fall. That's it.

[HurricaneWrestling2 340]

14 hours ago, TobusRex said:

Guess they figured every throw ended in a fall :D

In a way you're right.  In colonial times a match ended when you threw your opponent to the ground.  Pinning the shoulders didn't come along until later.  So a throw was the early equivalent of today's fall.  (Sportswriters carried over the earlier terminology by  reporting that a wrestler was "thrown" when he was actually "pinned" - as pointed out by the astute Old Corps above.)

As an aside, when NCAA wrestling began, there were only two ways to win - either by fall or riding time.  (Instead of "riding time" it was called "time advantage."  Early brackets would show either "WBF" or "TA" to show how the match was won. (The point system wasn't introduced until 1941.)

[Plasmodium 879]

16 hours ago, lu_alum said:

1. Only if you agree that boxing can end a bout in the following ways:  "TKO" and "Knockout KO"

2. Not in PA

Boxing can end in TKO and KTFO

[MedicineMan 60]

Epic literary news source.

(click on words Pin Fall)

Edited February 2 by MedicineMan

[olddirty 188]

People who use the term pinfall generally pay for sasparillas with wooden nickels

[Cooch1 105]

6 hours ago, kgschalhoub said:

How about we get rid of "tech fall" and call it a "superior decision." That fixes the problem. So we have major decision, superior decision, and fall. That's it.

I never hear Tim Johnson, Gibbons, Sparks, etc  say that other pinfall, etc stuff. It's corny/nerdy. Like you're new to the sport and don't know the vernacular.

 

Edited February 2 by Cooch1