You’ve been bugging me for a long time with something you all keep saying, so let’s talk about it.
When someone gets rolled up and pinned, the person who pinned him did not steal the win. Stealing a win involves something like a low blow, pulling the tights, having your hands or feet on the ropes, using a foreign object, outside interference, etc. It does not involve being out-wrestled and trapped in a legal manoeuvre for three seconds. I might hear you out if you want to call a situation where a guy gets rolled up while he’s busy yelling at the referee stealing, but even then I tend to disagree. It’s your job as a combatant to be paying attention. You take your eye off the ball and get schoolboyed or whatever, you lose fair and square. Sucks to be you. The only exception is when the ref fast counts you because he’s had it with your shit. Then you might have a case for calling it theft and yelling for a rematch.
But other than that, please, stop calling one guy being the better man stealing. It kind of ruins wrestling a little. Eventually you’re going to create a generation of fans and wrestlers who won’t see any win as legitimate unless it comes after a finishing move, which will take all of the strategy, fun and unpredictability out of the matches. I’m not sure if this is one of those Vince McMahon rules that he drilled into everyone for years or what, but if it is, he’s gone now. So if this could go away too, that would be lovely.