>>7925789>That there's rules for a ref stoppage when dealing with 12-6 elbowsOh, there's no set rule for specifically 12-6 elbows or anything like that, but stoppages happen, although they're rare.
>They must have needed a DQ/stoppage bad for whatever story they were cooking up.Definitely. There's two at play that kind of overlap here.
Red Shoes stopped the SANADA vs. Ospreay match in the NJC this year. It was actually due to SANADA having his orbital bone broken, but the story was that Ospreay was about to knock him out with the elbows. In the match after, Red Shoes called Ospreay's tap-out "early" (of course, that's just him being a cocky heel) but the story was that Red Shoes got criticism for letting the 12-6 elbows go on for too long, so this time around he made sure to be on the safe side.
On top of that, Umino is his son, and the commentary really put over the idea that he might just have stopped it early because his dad instincts beat out his ref ones.
TLDR Ospreay Red Shoes stoppage visual plea
