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PrinceCharmedPosted on 10/16/04 at 01:12:39

Just before my computer decided to crash one me (I fixed it though), I was running a WWE RAW circuit on TNM and doing the Taboo Tuesday card.

I chose to have the Ric Flair/Randy Orton match be a cage match. During the match, the referee was knocked unconscious and Randy Orton escaped from the cage, winning the match, right? Wrong. The referee was unconscious, and did not see the cage escape, therefore Orton was forced to go back in and continue the match.

Orton ended up winning anyway, but I just thought that was a very interesting happening and fun discovery, as I have never had that happen since I started using TNM years ago.

EDIT to fix some typos on my part.
Oliver CoppPosted on 10/16/04 at 01:21:13

Maybe this should be made impossible to happen. I mean, even if the referee was KOed - once he saw Orton outside, he in reality would have awarded him the match, regardless of whether he saw him escape or not.
PrinceCharmedPosted on 10/16/04 at 01:55:54

Well, I'm not complaining, it doesn't bother me... I was actually pleasantly surprised by it, but others may feel that it shouldn't be there.
rptDX316Posted on 10/17/04 at 16:26:36

Leave it in there!  I had a similar thing happen a long while ago, back in the FE days, with a ladder match.  The referee was knocked out when the belts were retrieved, so the decision didn't stand.

With the cage match, if the ref was knocked out, he's not to know that Orton, or whoever, was the first guy out.  As far as he knows, Flair could have escaped first, only for Orton to attack him, put him back in the ring and then wait outside himself.  So, in theory, he would have to restart the match.
SockoPosted on 10/17/04 at 16:28:40

I agree that it should be left in there too. This kind of thing adds possible twists when writing cards up :)
cerberosPosted on 10/17/04 at 23:21:09

I actually think this is a good thing.  It can happen actually since Flair "COULD" have been on the floor before hand and went back to revive the ref.  HUGE angle possibilities.