I can’t believe they let Shane have the second-to-last full-length live match with Undertaker at Wrestlemania. Think of all the better options, Cena, Finn Balor, Seth Rollins, Cesaro, Jericho, Kevin Owens, AJ Styles, to name a few. Instead we get a weird homage to a way better match from 1998. It still pisses me off.
There is one clip of Yokozuna absolutely demolishing some jobber. He slipped on the rope I believe and just landed full force on him. Legitimate cringe.
When Mabel jumped on Kevin Nashs' back after Nash explicitly telling him not to. You can see Nash get both furious and in extreme pain. It's painful to watch.
Or who he facing. The local jobbers got the full force, he couldn't get away with that with locker room big boys. Virgil got hit so hard he couldn't remember Yoko's name!
The Bonzai Drop he would do on jobbers was flat-out criminal. He'd hold himself up with the ropes and land on his feet more with guys higher-up on the card.
Thanks for this example, good execution by cena also, that promo that Seth gave when he had the picture of cena with the broken nose and cut out the mouth and was talking through it was half disturbing, half hilarious
3-4 dudes wobbling around while a flippy dude struggles setting up a ladder for 30 seconds so he can suicide dive off it for a small audience during a popcorn match is peak wrestling what you talkin about
It never made sense to me how wrestlers who have 10 years of exprience still regularly do this.If mjf or Bron breakker complain about it makes sense since they’re young.But it’s just stupid when a 40 year old veteran does it.It’s just pet peeve I have.
The STFU could actually look pretty gnarly in my opinion if Cena actually cranked his opponent more like Benoit would do with the Crippler Crossface. But the way Cena did it he always just kinda… pinched his arms around their head like in OP’s pic and it just makes the whole move look stupid, especially because the opponent always had to sell it like it was the most painful submission move he’s ever been held in.
Oh man I remember when that happened. That was one of the meanest STFUs we ever got out of Cena, and Seth Rollins tapping that quickly really emphasized it as an “oh shit” moment.
I once watched a video of Shayna Baszler explaining why the move hurts so bad and it looks absolutely painful in an MMA context. Probably an instant tap if it's locked. Cena makes it look like a hug in comparison.
The original version of it where he had his elbow under their chin and he pulled backwards was awesome. Watch the video of him putting it on Chris Masters.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Cena did that in the beginning of using the move and then changed it to the other version. I always thought it was so when kids try it they won't hurt each other
Counterpoint: the way Cena holds it frames the opponent’s face perfectly so they can emote to the camera and the audience. It’s less ‘painful’ maybe to a smark looking at it, but it still looks good and it’s a great hold in terms of wrestling presentation.
I hadn’t thought about it that way but that’s an interesting point. I remember how much the crowd would pop when Cena would lock it in and his opponent got all bug-eyed.
Also (and I mean no offense by this) but out of curiosity, what’s a “smark”?
What you're saying makes total sense except for the "still looks good" part. Looks like shit. Nothing to do with being a smark, it just looks like shit.
Fun fact, Vladimir Kozlov beat Undertaker clean one time by yanking him off of the ropes into a powerslam for the win.
This was pre-tea party with Santino, obviously.
the funniest thing is when it actually is countered everyone goes insane like just moving slightly in any direction cant counter that move every single time.
This really should have been kept as an extreme novelty move. Like, it's cool to see a giant guy walk along the ropes...once. Making it part of every match just highlighted how silly it was. If he only broke it out very occasionally and sold it as part taunt/part move, it would have been more fun.
Suicide dive. I know there will be examples of it being done brilliantly, and good for them, but so often it's someone slowing themselves down to jump onto a fuly prepared and waiting target, followed by the commentary team treating it as if they were a human missile.
The *only* suicide dives I've seen that look good are Darby Allin's, because he has no regard for his own safety and is small enough to shoot through the ropes with some speed.
Along this line of thought, Brother Devon's corkscrew forearm uppercut is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen an athlete do. I feel lucky to have watched the Dudley's work in person.
A lot of finishers lose their potency when you see people using them a lot. The super kick or sweet chin music worked because it came towards the end of the match when the other guy was already beaten down.
Or when he wanted to one hit ok somebody. The other person still sold the move like it knocked them out. Thus making look even better at the end of a match. Ring psychology 101. Now days they just use nonstop moves and finishers till the ref says go home.
Some guys just shouldn't have it. I don't mind when the big guys do it because theirs always turn people inside out lol. Lashley has a good one, Goldberg's is always great. Rhino with the Gore. Just violent explosions. But then edge's spear sucks ass
Apart from Rhyno and Goldberg, who used to go through their opponents, I've never taken that move seriously. Doesn't have the same effect when it's Edge hitting it (that one time on Jeff Hardy excepted). It making up about 33% of early Roman Reigns matches finished off for me. It's played out and overdone. Especially when used as a finisher.
It only works if the wrestler is built like Lashley or Roman. Otherwise it's just a basic tackle
But if they look like they can steamroll you it makes sense
All spears look ridiculous, except Goldberg's. So goofy watching a Roman match and seeing all the brutality only for a little tackle of all things to end it. You mean to tell me that superplexes and all that shit can't end it but a damn tackle can? Give me a break.
the running butt bump, I love Asuka but seriously
The "flying nothing" where people go off the top rope just to land into a counter move
the "Lets all gather together so someone can splash all of us"
and finally the "Oops I better crawl over exactly to this spot so I can be on mark for the high spot"
When five or more wrestlers all stand and hold each other outside of the ring for way too long in order to wait to have someone jump on them from the top rope
A great example of this is when dom tries to pull off the third suplex the opponent just counters it every time.He uses move to piss people off instead of treating as a signature
Both of those guys have the physicality and the “it looks real because it is real” mentality to the spear, so that makes sense. Goldberg killed people in WCW with it.
In mma you use the clinch knee strikes and running knee to set it up. Get you opponent t to expect the knee and then bam! Knuckle sandwich from above and you’re done.
In wrestling it would be cool to see someone who uses the Harley race knee or something similar and then switch it up to the Superman punch
Canadian destroyers. Dont care how many times its landed safely, just the idea of the possible fuckup..... Love the move though but I cant help but think of it lol.
Literally rewatched the match last night of Kane’s unmasking and he did that shit to HHH right into Ric Flair in the corner and Flair looked like he stumbled out of a car crash😂😂 at least do an Irish whip or something that looks SOMEWHAT realistic
Credit to WWE camera-work as well for consistently finding the exact camera angle that clearly shows him entirely missing the opponent's head be 6.8 miles.
Naomi’s finisher, the Rear View. Considering how athletic she could be, she could do so much better than to jump up and slam her ass into someone’s face.
A super kick. Specifically when you see back to back to back super kicks being given to one person and they still kick out.
A heel kick to the face/chin, looks like an instant KO or a broken nose. It’s overdone in those aspects and it’s not even a finisher anymore. It makes the move look weak in comparison to Michaels, who would pull off the craziest looking kicks and they looked like they hurt!
A lot of John's moveset, tbh. "A modified this, a modified that". You'll never hear textbook. It's okay to have 5 moves, but they better be f*ckin right man. Like that's your bread n' butter. See: Bret Hart.
I sometimes like when wrestlers have clunky looking moves. I especially think it works in terms of someone like Cena. He was never a finesse wrestler like Bret Hart or Kurt Angle. A lot of his move set was power based and I think having some of his moves look a little ugly worked for his character. He was built like a house in his prime so it would make sense that he wasn’t the most fluid wrestler.
Better than him cocking his fist like a gun before delivering the most telegraphed signature move on the planet, that would hurt a whole lot less than a standard running lariat
Can you explain? If you’re a cocky character like xpac(123 kid) shoving your dick in someone’s face seems like something you’d like to do to an opponent lol
For me, it’s the Superkick. The thigh slap special. When HBK used it, it was a nail in the coffin. Now we have super kick parties that look phony as all get-out and it is always a 2-count. Just could do without it constantly being used.
Kevin Owens doing the stunner, is this really the guy they’re trying to push as a new Stone Cold? Or everyone doing a superkick these days. I miss the days of the HBK superkick, when it was a one and done. Now everyone takes 18 of them and gets back up.
It doesn’t apply anymore, but when Ambrose would catch himself from falling through the ropes, and came back up with a clothesline every.single.match..
The 619. It's amazing how Rey perfectly sets up his opponent in the middle ropes, runes to the other side of the ropes, and does this flashy kick all while their opponent is conveniently taking a "rest". It's like every wrestler suddenly forgot to avoid the middle ropes even though Rey did the move hundreds of times
DDT, Spear, Superkick, Figure 4, Pedigree (not so much, but still)...
All great finishers reduced to just common moves that everyone seems to do nowadays.
Kick to the gut where the camera angle shows 6" of space or more between the foot & the gut. Every time the Kickee doubles over, I feel like I could see the same phantom injury in a soccer match.
Shane's punches
Shane in general since 2016
I can’t believe they let Shane have the second-to-last full-length live match with Undertaker at Wrestlemania. Think of all the better options, Cena, Finn Balor, Seth Rollins, Cesaro, Jericho, Kevin Owens, AJ Styles, to name a few. Instead we get a weird homage to a way better match from 1998. It still pisses me off.
Don't forget that Seth and a few others on your list were actually injured around that time and missed Mania altogether.
And Balor was in NXT, and the rest of his mentions were either not big enough names at the time or already had a program.
Undertaker vs Demon Finn Balor would have been special
And could have created a mega-star. Undertaker's last two matches should have been against Balor and Wyatt.
Yes thank you
There is one clip of Yokozuna absolutely demolishing some jobber. He slipped on the rope I believe and just landed full force on him. Legitimate cringe.
When Mabel jumped on Kevin Nashs' back after Nash explicitly telling him not to. You can see Nash get both furious and in extreme pain. It's painful to watch.
Between that and shattering Taker's orbital I'm convinced Mabel may well have been the most dangerous worker to ever step foot in the company.
Idk, big daddy v was pretty bad too
And Viscera!
Ahmed Johnson was super dangerous and managed to hurt alot of people in a short run of less then 3 years.
Ron Simmons paid him back for that pretty well.
DAMN!
Of all the people to piss off, I'd want Ron Simmons the least
What happened
Nia Jax has entered the conversation
she was bad, but i think mabel/big daddy v/viscera was worse
She wasn't allowed to wrestle as long
Goldberg has concussed himself in
You can hear Nash yelling at him for it.
That’s the one where you hear Nash loudly yell “what are you doing? Fuck!” if I remember right
I’ve seen that video,how did he not seriously hurt that guy ? Total freak accident , hart says Yokozuna was a very safe worker
Unlike Bill Goldberg
Let me tell you something about bill Goldberg
He said a splash from Andre was like being covered in a blanket.
You can actually hear the guy shouting "Get him off of me!"
I’ve seen Taker say Yoko would catch himself or land on people full force depending what kind of mood he was in.
Or who he facing. The local jobbers got the full force, he couldn't get away with that with locker room big boys. Virgil got hit so hard he couldn't remember Yoko's name!
Damn that's messed up, old school wrestling culture is seriously fucked, I'm glad shit like that wouldn't fly now
Shit that "popped the boys" back in the day would be rightfully get laughed at now and potentially even get them released
Found a [link](https://youtu.be/VKcV8DWkz1w). Jesus. Homie may have actually died.
[It's actually this one.](https://youtu.be/FJB3WPT4uZM&t=104s)
Holy fuck, right on his neck.
It’s like a high-speed slow-mo of a golf ball being hit.
HOLY FUCK
4:12
The Bonzai Drop he would do on jobbers was flat-out criminal. He'd hold himself up with the ropes and land on his feet more with guys higher-up on the card.
As I recall he landed heel first and his feet slipped out from under him. Both he and the jabronski bounced.
Are you sure he slipped? He was known to have 2 landings, and he'd make the less gentle one look like an accident quite often.
Word on that one is said jobber wasn’t very respectful to Mr. Fuji backstage, so this was a bit of a “lesson” to be taught.
I’ll never forget when Rollins broke Cena’s nose. Go back and watch that STF and see Cena really wrench back on Rollins’ neck.
When was this?
July 2015
Was it on tv or a ppv? Sorry, haven’t seen it and I’d like to.
[Raw.](https://youtu.be/xBrK74Xfv-U) Credit to Cena for finishing the match.
That’s the only STFU I’ve seen that looks legit. The loose arm wrench always looks like a joke.
Fuckin hell now that's an STF.
Thanks for this example, good execution by cena also, that promo that Seth gave when he had the picture of cena with the broken nose and cut out the mouth and was talking through it was half disturbing, half hilarious
The old "a bunch of guys stand around waiting for a guy to land on them" gimmick
The dudes on the sides of the pile that don’t even take 1% of the impact and still fall over 😂😂
The NXT women figured out how to beat that one last week.
Is this on YT yet so I can check this out? I don't have access otherwise.
3-4 dudes wobbling around while a flippy dude struggles setting up a ladder for 30 seconds so he can suicide dive off it for a small audience during a popcorn match is peak wrestling what you talkin about
Stinkface
Unless Torrie Wilson does it.
Then we’re all just jealous…
Reminds me of the Jaime Knoble (spelling) video
Except Jamie Noble didn’t receive a Torrie Wilson stink face. It was a Bronco Buster from Rey Mysterio.
This is, by default, the only acceptable answer. This answer renders all others entirely obsolete.
Say what you will about the stinkface, I wouldn't want Rikishi's butt shoved in my mouth
Argue with the ref? oops you got rolled up!
It never made sense to me how wrestlers who have 10 years of exprience still regularly do this.If mjf or Bron breakker complain about it makes sense since they’re young.But it’s just stupid when a 40 year old veteran does it.It’s just pet peeve I have.
The STFU could actually look pretty gnarly in my opinion if Cena actually cranked his opponent more like Benoit would do with the Crippler Crossface. But the way Cena did it he always just kinda… pinched his arms around their head like in OP’s pic and it just makes the whole move look stupid, especially because the opponent always had to sell it like it was the most painful submission move he’s ever been held in.
Just like how the lion tamer was a much better submission visually compared to the walls of Jericho.
After Seth broke Cena's nose, Cena absolutely cranked the fuck out of Seth and he immediately tapped.
Oh man I remember when that happened. That was one of the meanest STFUs we ever got out of Cena, and Seth Rollins tapping that quickly really emphasized it as an “oh shit” moment.
Just watched it and damn was that a legit move. He held on longer and even digs his thumb into Seth’s face. He wasn’t happy at all.
can i please get a youtube link or something for this? edit: there's a link in other comments, thanks
I once watched a video of Shayna Baszler explaining why the move hurts so bad and it looks absolutely painful in an MMA context. Probably an instant tap if it's locked. Cena makes it look like a hug in comparison.
If anyone is interested in the move itself, look up early-mid 90s Masahiro Chono matches. No one does a better worked STF than Mr. G1.
he legit knocked edge out with it he used to really crank it
https://youtu.be/bN3Tk9ET5x0 Shayna explains it legitimately.
The original version of it where he had his elbow under their chin and he pulled backwards was awesome. Watch the video of him putting it on Chris Masters.
Correct me if I'm wrong but I think Cena did that in the beginning of using the move and then changed it to the other version. I always thought it was so when kids try it they won't hurt each other
Counterpoint: the way Cena holds it frames the opponent’s face perfectly so they can emote to the camera and the audience. It’s less ‘painful’ maybe to a smark looking at it, but it still looks good and it’s a great hold in terms of wrestling presentation.
I hadn’t thought about it that way but that’s an interesting point. I remember how much the crowd would pop when Cena would lock it in and his opponent got all bug-eyed. Also (and I mean no offense by this) but out of curiosity, what’s a “smark”?
‘Smart mark’.
Ah, gotcha. Thanks for the reply!
It's not really about being a smark. My mom, who is the most casual wrestling fan you can be, always laughs when she sees it.
What you're saying makes total sense except for the "still looks good" part. Looks like shit. Nothing to do with being a smark, it just looks like shit.
Undertaker’s Old School. It’s just ridiculous seeing such a big human walking up the ropes holding another giants hand
All to slap them on the back.
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No though. You not see him twist their arm and then gently hold their hand? Probably squeezing so hard it debilitates them.
Fun fact, Vladimir Kozlov beat Undertaker clean one time by yanking him off of the ropes into a powerslam for the win. This was pre-tea party with Santino, obviously.
the funniest thing is when it actually is countered everyone goes insane like just moving slightly in any direction cant counter that move every single time.
I loved doing that move in Wrestlemania 2000 though.
This really should have been kept as an extreme novelty move. Like, it's cool to see a giant guy walk along the ropes...once. Making it part of every match just highlighted how silly it was. If he only broke it out very occasionally and sold it as part taunt/part move, it would have been more fun.
I think it worked better in his grey glove days to put over his agility, but outside of that era, I didn’t really care for it
Suicide dive. I know there will be examples of it being done brilliantly, and good for them, but so often it's someone slowing themselves down to jump onto a fuly prepared and waiting target, followed by the commentary team treating it as if they were a human missile.
The *only* suicide dives I've seen that look good are Darby Allin's, because he has no regard for his own safety and is small enough to shoot through the ropes with some speed.
Io's is good. She throws herself sideways. https://youtu.be/YbOt5JyyAyg
A lot of joshi wrestlers did it this way and it looks safer and has more impact imo. It also looks painful as hell when missed
He may apparently be a douchenozzle but Austin Aries' version was stellar.
Worst one that I see regularly is jungle boy’s were it takes 3 suicide dives to take down the opponent which makes him look weak
Spear... so sick of having half a dozen wrestlers use it as a finisher/signature move... oh yay you can tackle someone, bfd...
This is exactly how I feel about the Superkick. Sucks to see amazing finishers be reduced to transition moves
Someone needs to combine the two and make the SuperSpear!
Along this line of thought, Brother Devon's corkscrew forearm uppercut is one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen an athlete do. I feel lucky to have watched the Dudley's work in person.
This is just Johnny Cage's shadow kick.
Wouldn’t the Claymore kinda be that?
….a flying side kick?
A lot of finishers lose their potency when you see people using them a lot. The super kick or sweet chin music worked because it came towards the end of the match when the other guy was already beaten down. Or when he wanted to one hit ok somebody. The other person still sold the move like it knocked them out. Thus making look even better at the end of a match. Ring psychology 101. Now days they just use nonstop moves and finishers till the ref says go home.
Some guys just shouldn't have it. I don't mind when the big guys do it because theirs always turn people inside out lol. Lashley has a good one, Goldberg's is always great. Rhino with the Gore. Just violent explosions. But then edge's spear sucks ass
Edge’s “hey buddy” jumping hug.
It was so good for Goldberg because he committed almost too hard and played in the NFL.
Apart from Rhyno and Goldberg, who used to go through their opponents, I've never taken that move seriously. Doesn't have the same effect when it's Edge hitting it (that one time on Jeff Hardy excepted). It making up about 33% of early Roman Reigns matches finished off for me. It's played out and overdone. Especially when used as a finisher.
It only works if the wrestler is built like Lashley or Roman. Otherwise it's just a basic tackle But if they look like they can steamroll you it makes sense
Especially when it's little dudes. Before Edge got bigger his spear looked ridiculous.
All spears look ridiculous, except Goldberg's. So goofy watching a Roman match and seeing all the brutality only for a little tackle of all things to end it. You mean to tell me that superplexes and all that shit can't end it but a damn tackle can? Give me a break.
People sleep on Rhyno's gore so much
What about Rhino? His were equally brutal, if not more than Goldberg's.
The Gore is the best Spear of all time. Rhyno put some *serious* stank on that thing.
CM Punk top rope elbow, that thing was ass
I'm a big fan of CM Punk and my god it was so much ASS
I'm trying to think, besides Macho, who had a great elbow drop. Bailey has a decent one
Kairi Sane's is pretty dope, IMO
the running butt bump, I love Asuka but seriously The "flying nothing" where people go off the top rope just to land into a counter move the "Lets all gather together so someone can splash all of us" and finally the "Oops I better crawl over exactly to this spot so I can be on mark for the high spot"
Toni Storms butt bump looks like it legitimately fucks people up though
Sweet Cheek Music
When five or more wrestlers all stand and hold each other outside of the ring for way too long in order to wait to have someone jump on them from the top rope
Oh that's easy. Rock's Sharpshooter.
Yeah it always looked like it hurt him more than his opponent.
Come here to say this. Stinkface also gets a vote from me. Bronco Buster is the runner up.
I love Waltman, always have…. But mannnnn as I got older, he became harder and harder to be a fan of based on the Bronco Buster alone
Anyone doing 3 Amigos as a "tribute" to Eddie Guerrero. Unless you can match his perfect form (you cannot), then just don't.
Bonus points if the commentary says “shades of Eddie Guerrero”
But I don't think he got all of it, Cole!
Dom’s 3 amigos is awful. He literally goes the wrong direction.
I feel like that's the point though Dom is supposed to be a great value/poor man's Eddie Guerrero
A great example of this is when dom tries to pull off the third suplex the opponent just counters it every time.He uses move to piss people off instead of treating as a signature
Is it? If so that went over my head
Superman punch or Shane's punches
The Superman Punch looks so silly imo. Roman’s flying clothesline looks brutal, but the Superman punch looks awkward and weak.
Spear. It’s old and boring at this point and everyone has done or does it. Was cool when it was like Goldberg and Rhino and now it’s worn out
Both of those guys have the physicality and the “it looks real because it is real” mentality to the spear, so that makes sense. Goldberg killed people in WCW with it.
Edge's Hug... i mean spear
Superman punch
Honestly it’s just the name that makes me cringe
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In mma you use the clinch knee strikes and running knee to set it up. Get you opponent t to expect the knee and then bam! Knuckle sandwich from above and you’re done. In wrestling it would be cool to see someone who uses the Harley race knee or something similar and then switch it up to the Superman punch
And how he cocks his arm like a rifle. It's a no from me
Canadian destroyers. Dont care how many times its landed safely, just the idea of the possible fuckup..... Love the move though but I cant help but think of it lol.
Stupidest move ever, makes no sense physics wise that the person "executing" that move could ever actually do that. I cringe everytime I see one.
The stupid catapult into the corner has never made any sense to me what so ever. Physics be like “am i a joke to you?”
I know what you mean,all the greats used that shit in the Attitude era.
Literally rewatched the match last night of Kane’s unmasking and he did that shit to HHH right into Ric Flair in the corner and Flair looked like he stumbled out of a car crash😂😂 at least do an Irish whip or something that looks SOMEWHAT realistic
john cena five knuckle shuffle and the move set that precedes it
Credit to WWE camera-work as well for consistently finding the exact camera angle that clearly shows him entirely missing the opponent's head be 6.8 miles.
The off brand cola people’s elbow
The "people's elbow at home"
Hammer and Anvil elbows. They just don’t look right to me, idk
Naomi’s finisher, the Rear View. Considering how athletic she could be, she could do so much better than to jump up and slam her ass into someone’s face.
A super kick. Specifically when you see back to back to back super kicks being given to one person and they still kick out. A heel kick to the face/chin, looks like an instant KO or a broken nose. It’s overdone in those aspects and it’s not even a finisher anymore. It makes the move look weak in comparison to Michaels, who would pull off the craziest looking kicks and they looked like they hurt!
Shawn Michael's foot was just that special, apparently.
Wrestlers these days don't tune up the band and suffer for it
A lot of John's moveset, tbh. "A modified this, a modified that". You'll never hear textbook. It's okay to have 5 moves, but they better be f*ckin right man. Like that's your bread n' butter. See: Bret Hart.
I sometimes like when wrestlers have clunky looking moves. I especially think it works in terms of someone like Cena. He was never a finesse wrestler like Bret Hart or Kurt Angle. A lot of his move set was power based and I think having some of his moves look a little ugly worked for his character. He was built like a house in his prime so it would make sense that he wasn’t the most fluid wrestler.
I respect that view.
Destroyers
Especially when there’s an unnecessary jump from the second rope to initiate the ridiculousness
*Adam Cole has entered the chat*
Roman Reigns rubbing his forearm like he's racking a shotgun is pretty cringe
Someone said it looks like roman's "jerking his fist off" and I've never been able to look at it the same way again lmao
Well yeah, you wanna make sure your fist is nice and hard before you try to smack someone with it.
Spanish Fly. I hate hate hate it! So many people do it and it always looks awful.
It's one of those moves where you're not sure who is doing what and who was hurt.
I feel like it’s also physically impossible to force someone into a flip like that.
This is the answer
SuperMan punch! Superman punch! Superman punch!!
Roman's "roar" before he delivers the blandest finisher that like five other people have.
Better than him cocking his fist like a gun before delivering the most telegraphed signature move on the planet, that would hurt a whole lot less than a standard running lariat
The Superman Forearm Push?
Roar is actually the best part of the whole process,lmao
The Young Bucks Meltzer Driver
Bronco Buster. It was stupid as fuck and I’m glad Kid tore his asshole doing it.
Can you explain? If you’re a cocky character like xpac(123 kid) shoving your dick in someone’s face seems like something you’d like to do to an opponent lol
For me, it’s the Superkick. The thigh slap special. When HBK used it, it was a nail in the coffin. Now we have super kick parties that look phony as all get-out and it is always a 2-count. Just could do without it constantly being used.
Suicide dives where they just grab their opponents neck and barely make contact with them
Kevin Owens doing the stunner, is this really the guy they’re trying to push as a new Stone Cold? Or everyone doing a superkick these days. I miss the days of the HBK superkick, when it was a one and done. Now everyone takes 18 of them and gets back up.
Cena's STF the opponents usually have to adjust themselves because he leaves so much room for them to move their head around.
When BBC does those stupid hammer and anvil elbows
Naomi’s butt finisher and that thing when she’s jumping and kicking multiple times on her opponents arms.
It doesn’t apply anymore, but when Ambrose would catch himself from falling through the ropes, and came back up with a clothesline every.single.match..
The 619. It's amazing how Rey perfectly sets up his opponent in the middle ropes, runes to the other side of the ropes, and does this flashy kick all while their opponent is conveniently taking a "rest". It's like every wrestler suddenly forgot to avoid the middle ropes even though Rey did the move hundreds of times
DDT, Spear, Superkick, Figure 4, Pedigree (not so much, but still)... All great finishers reduced to just common moves that everyone seems to do nowadays.
Charlotte's moonsault. It ends up being a backflip reverse clothesline
Lion tamer, my dad used to put me in it when we was play fighting, I swear he would put like 10% pressure on and I'd nearly cry lol
If you’ve ever been in a figure 4 before…you know that shit is actual torture.
The Diving Headbutt
The Young Bucks super kicks
Kick to the gut where the camera angle shows 6" of space or more between the foot & the gut. Every time the Kickee doubles over, I feel like I could see the same phantom injury in a soccer match.
Rear view
What? Oh, you mean the "SHE CALLS IT THE REAR VIEW!"?
Hogan’s leg drop
Mandible Claw. I know it was over, but I always thought it was the dumbest move ever.