Former WWE star and a former two times NWA National Champion Chris Masters who is also a former OVW Souther Tag Team Champion recently talked about his famous Master Lock from WWE and explain how it became a really big impact on the promotion.
The Master Lock is nothing but a Full Nelson Lock done in a little stylish way. When Chris Masters signed with WWE, the promotion had really big plans for the American Professional wrestler. He has a great, attractive physic which has always been a big preference of Vince McMahon.
Chris Masters Explains How Master Lock Became A Big Deal In WWE
He was having feuds with the likes of Shawn Michaels and other big names which made the intentions WWE pretty clear about him. Another thing that made him special one his submission move, the Master Lock. WWE built it as an unbreakable lock and the impact of it remained for years.
Finally it was broken by Bobby Lashley and it was the time when WWE was giving up on the push of Masters. The funny part is, the same move is now being used by Bobby Lashley himself and he calls it the Hurt Lock. Once Masters lost his push in WWE, he could never regain it back.
Chris Masters who is also a former OVW Souther Tag Team Champion recently spoke to Stephanie Chase where he talked about his famous Master Lock from WWE and explain how it became a really big impact on the promotion. He said;
“I think it was at a point in time where it was like a back-to-basics thing, and I think a lot of people resisted at first, even including myself, because it was so basic. It’s like, ‘Oh my god, a Full Nelson?’ But the whole idea of it was to kind of recondition the fans. Not with any kind of BS or anything like that, but that holds are legitimate.
“The Full Nelson, for instance, is a basic hold, but it is legitimate, and if you have the right person applying it, there really is no escaping it. When I say the right person I’m talking about a Chris Masters, a Bobby Lashley, Hercules Hernandez. [WWE] pushed the bar very far in the three years before that.
“I think it was like 2002 to 2005, where there was a of ton of injuries and they reached the point, when I came in, where they adopted that philosophy and they wanted it to start, kind of, with me. It didn’t start with me but it was around then, not just with me but other people too. It’s a legitimate hold it, it just needed to be presented on television every week and you needed to see it built, and when you partner that with the fact that, it is legitimate, anybody can do it to anybody.”
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