If you watched Raw this past Monday, chances are you saw The Street Profits' Montez Ford yell "WrestleMania!" and perform a daring flip dive (or somersault plancha, if you prefer) over the top rope to the outside. The only problem was, his opponent Austin Theory didn't break his fall as he was supposed to, and Montez landed very hard on his back.
There have been numerous theories about what went wrong, and now Bryan Alvarez has provided us with some context during the latest episode of his radio show.
It seems Theory wasn't at fault, because the dive wasn't planned! Apparently, Seth Rollins was supposed to grab Ford's foot to stop his momentum, but when he was late with the spot, Montez decided to keep going with an impromptu dive. Unfortunately, Austin never saw him coming.
“As it turns out when Montez hit the ropes, Seth was supposed to trip him, okay? Granted, Seth was a little bit late, but he wasn’t that late. He actually did get a hold of Montez’s foot. Maybe when Montez started running he realized that Seth was too far away and in his mind he thought ‘there’s no way this guys’ gonna get to me, I just gotta keep running.’ Seth is actually very athletic and fast and he did get to him, but Montez apparently got it in his mind that ‘I gotta do this dive.
“So he ran and he just did an unplanned flip dive over the top. Austin Theory didn’t know it was coming so Theory looked up and just sees this guy coming at him and Montez crashes and nearly kills himself and Theory, I don’t know what was in anybody’s mind, but maybe Theory thought, ‘Maybe I was supposed to catch him.’ So, he took a bump. Then everybody’s dead. “The spot was supposed to be Seth tripping Montez Ford and Montez just did the dive anyway that he wasn’t supposed to do. So, that’s what happened on that spot.”
If you watch the clip back, this is indeed what appeared to happen. We don't know if Ford was badly hurt, but he is still scheduled to defend the Raw Tag-Team Championships along with partner Angelo Dawkins at 'Mania this weekend.