10 Finishers WWE Wrestlers Quickly Abandoned 

One my favorite moves of his. Wish he wouldve used it more

Kane was one of the strongest guys ever in WWE, that helped to really sell the move. I think Mark Henry should have used something like that. Always thought his worlds strongest slam was a horrible finisher.

Looked like he had someone's nuts in his face and it was the quickest way to get em out of it

Apparently it hurts like hell that's why he stoped using it

I would like to see Rhea Ripley using this as a finisher instead of the riptide, it must look devastating.

It worked to a degree when you consider how he initially based the "Stone Cold" character on a serial killer who he'd seen a documentary about (his nickname was Ice Man which is why Austin needed a temperature-based title). I agree that an impact finisher like the Stunner would have been needed even if he'd kept using the Million Dollar Dream regularly.

@@tempestfennac9687 Yeah Richard Kuklinski, I watched that same documentary he got it from in 1995, pretty awesome he got his character from that and his wife. I see what your saying though, I'm actually glad he mingled the Million Dollar Dream into his moveset still sometimes.

WWE ripping off ECW Sandman and adding him Mikey Whipwreck's finisher was the best thing ever

Cody o Well at that time they were ALL ripping off ECW, definitely not a secret, ECW paved the way.

@@tempestfennac9687 Austin explained in an interview he came up with "Stone Cold" after his wife told him to drink his coffee or something before it gets stone cold.

spot on, I was about to say that, the move was not dangerous.

@@alyberop1 but That Looked Deadly

@@alyberop1 for kids it was

but then he had the knee and that hurts cuz u get knee to the nose but curb stomp is safe

Yeah, his finisher was quite dangerous at school. You can argue that other moves are more dangerous but the curb stomp is so easy to do compared to other dangerous moves.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

The match isn't fun if they don't kick out of at minimum 6 finishers.

@@thatlsk lol

I don't mind if it makes sense or its a big match that's been built correctly

Those were the days... Brutus the Barber's Sleeper followed by a haircut Jake the Snake's DDT followed by a visit from Damien the snake Rick Flair's figure 4 Hulk Hogan's leg drop Dibiase's Million $ Dream Superfly's epic splash off the top rope Macho Man's Elbow Drop off the top rope Ravishing Rick Rude's Rude Awakening

Really? Never knew that

Like the rock sold the stunner to make stone cold laugh

Yep triple h revealed that rock Austin and himself always tried to get taker to break character on tv

The God Father almost had him why you think Undertaker pre maturely started the match

@@jeblittle7999 Austin got Taker to break only one time.

Stone cold wouldn't have been born and it would be the wcw network

@@sulaymaanqureshi7692 randy orton has the best cutter in all of wrestling

A parallel universe

He stole the Whippersnapper from Mikey Whipwreck. That's all the Stunner is.

@@The4cp Dude, I forgot about Mikey Whipwreck.

I thought it wad called houston hangover because it was named that un the 2k games

@@easypete9846 He called it that in later years. After he moved to WWE and dropped the "Harlem Heat" gimmick.

Harlem hangover?

@@gremlin.x Harlem Hangover is right my guy.

@@Bulls3ye86 yeah, he's from texas, not new York, raised in Houston even though he was born in Louisiana, so Houston hangover makes more sense as a name. He's one of the many many guys who prove that texas produces more great wrestlers than any other region in the world. Undertaker, HBK, Eddie Guerrero (he was 100% American, born and raised in texas, despite his character being Mexican), Chavo Guerrero too, Dusty Rhodes, Dustin Rhodes, Jake the snake Roberts, Terry funk, the von erich family, Bob Backlund, Terry Funk, Dory Funk Jr, Barry Windham, Tully Blanchard, Bruiser Brody, Steve Austin, Mark Henry, JBL, Keith Lee, and many many many more, including Booker T. I'm not even American by the way, let alone texan. I'm from the UK. But it just astounds me how many hall of fame level wrestlers that texas has produced. If you counted them all up, texas probably has produced more all time greats than the next 5 states combined. I dunno why this is, why texans seem to love pro wrestling more than anyone else, but yeah. Maybe it's because they're in such close proximity to Mexico, that there's a lot of crossover between the American style snd the Mexican style, and so way more fans there than anywhere else.

The ripcord knee looked badass and Rollins could pull it off I surprising ways send you off into the ropes and your like okay suplex a backbody drop then hooking your arm spins you around and then hooking your arm trapping it and you get spun around the opposite way and get a knee for your trouble see ya bye end of match

During the build to his WrestleMania XI match against Diesel (Kevin Nash), we saw why he switched to the Sweet Chin Music superkick. He went over some big men in the lead-up to the Mania match.

A good finish always needs to be hit on anyone, with little set up.

@@OldManTastic this is tru

Looks just like the Angle slam too. Angle was strong enough to use it on bigger guys, Shawn wasn’t.

I always used to wonder(as a kid)why he had that as a finisher on WWF Raw for Sega Genesis.

Right now everyone in the roster can use it

before, he used the teardrop suplex...looks more of an angle slam to me.i am good with the sweet chin music. 😆

He was using the Superkick when he was a Rocker, but it was a regular move, like John Cena's Protoplex (the move before the Five Knuckle Shuffle)

Benny Yee Angle was much stronger though, he could execute the move on big guys. Saw him do it to Big Show more than once.

Yes

Lol I thought im The only one

@@user-ei9gv6rr9n like the lebouf meme 🤣

Just saw your comment after I made mines and he was that was when certain people who wasn't available for the original taping did whatever in front of a green screen like the commentators

THANK YOU!!!!!!

Pedigree Pandemonium

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He didn’t do it any different from Dallas page

@@poopsyko He like landed awkwardly on his knee as opposed to flat on his back like Paige does

Krystal Giove everything you said is wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️ dude got injured because he took the pedigree wrong he thought it triple h was going for a suplex so he jumped

Oh that would have been sik!! Plus it vits with his theme. That would have been 5 matches right there. Which ones better? Takers wins one. Kane wins another. Mizzed opportunity "Vin man!" (In hbks voice) I like theme moves. Kane needed more pyro named moves. Like volkanic rage. Burning aruption. Napalm klothesline. Plus, it would have been soooo sweet! to see him hulk up. partway through a match. Vince vucked up sooo much with what kould have been a main avent kimick.

Tombstone Piledriver is a name that predates Taker using it. For example, it was called the tombstone piledriver when Dynamite Kid used it in the 80s.

@@otherhalf228 mate I had a stroke reading that paragraph

And by JR standards it would be EPIC as only JR can commentate a sleeper hold as if it was the coming of Christ.

Ricky&Ricardo He could make the opening of a mail box sound epic lol

Do you mean mercy lights burn in my light?

He liked This Fire Burns, he was bummed that WWE gave it to Punk. He hated Burn in my Light

@@dizzy1369 no he means "This Fire Burns" ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PbfuHLtLqkQ.html

No, he hated Burn in my light and wanted “this fire burns” as his theme song which they gave him for one day but WWE didn’t think it fit him.

That song was literally written for Orton. It was confirmed by Killswitch Engage themselves in a interview but nobody thought it matched his gimmick so they ditched it and gave him back his old theme, Burn In My Light.

Recycling is fascinating

Absolutely fascinating.

@@hunter8501 fascinated deez 👋

He actually had it as a regular move in no mercy as well!

He had It as a finisher until svr 07 i think

Yup. When a member of Headbangers hit him w/ a Hurracanrana, he hit him w/ 2 powerbombs, and then the walls.

Same.

Yea that was badass

Looked bad cause he struggled with it so bad.

I remember this being his finisher in WWF Smackdown on PS1

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I’ve see Jerry use it against Taz once which was after the Owen event. And of course Mick Foley had used the sit down one a few times post Owen but I think it wasn’t completely banned then

The piledriver and tombstone are only allowed to be done by certain ppl from what I've heard

Owen Hart gave Austin a mix of a regular piledriver and a tombstone. If he had gone with the knees to the mat, Austin would probably not get injured

Wwwweeee

I remember him talking about it years ago saying the move was cool, but hard to sell as a finisher so he started using the Skull Crushing Finale.

That was an unbearable maneuver.

I kind of liked the Reality Check, but the Skull Crushing Finale is a much better fit for him.

Love your persona protag pfp

@@justyouraveragepersonafan1791 Thanks. It's some fan art I found on Zerochan.

The Lion Tamer, back in the days when Jericho would press his knee against his opponent's back instead of just using a boston crab.

@@RKsolid5586 I know he mostly retired that version when he went to the WWF due to a lot of the guys he worked with being taller so it was more awkward to apply.

The Lion Tamer was way more brutal than The Walls of Jericho!

Hell yeah!

I don't think he ever pinned anyone at a PPV level match with a lionsault

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I got the Elmo "HAHA!"

I got the Samsung interruption

I usually get that ad on a workout video that’s so weird you got it on a wwe video 😂

dont forget the original! the move that created the rko and the person that gave orton permission to use it and experiment with it! The Legend DDP - The Diamond Cutter! a man that did what they said was impossible and became a pro wrestler at the age of 35.

“PrOfEsSiOnAl FaN” at work, why would they even try to do a shred of research when they have to spew out that cuntent.

Yes he did

There are several moves that there is no way of making them not hurt and still look good to the audience.

He did, but that was his signature. Not an actual finisher.

I live in el paso

I loved that move.

Edge: electric chair drop. Undertaker: 2 handed chokeslam/ leaping Tombstone. Brock Lesnar: Shooting Star Press.

@@CamaroAmx leaping tombstone is like unspoken taboo in WWE, doing it might risk for death to the opponent, Shawn did fortunately receive it without vital injury in Wrestlemania

Nabil Fallen its all about positioning and grip. You keep the opponent’s head as far above the knees as possible and hold on tight, keeping the head above the knees. If done correctly, it looks brutal. Justin Credible never seem to have an issue with the That’s Incredible, a leaping spinning variation of the tombstone.

@@CamaroAmx that's right, but no one would even check on all the requirements for that if it's 20+ minutes match (Undertaker vs Shawn was 30+ minutes), and Undertaker did try to have short rest (standing still) in order to have enough energy to do the Leaping Tombstone Pile-driver to react to Shawn slapping him

I completely forgot about the Brock Lock honestly. Don't think he uses it much, if at all, these days.

Then he switched to the Hog Log (leg drop across the chest of a standing opponent), then The Big Sleep (Cobra Clutch often lifted into a backbreaker and / or swinging release slam), then The WMD (KO punch). Can't forget the Alley-Oop (Flip-over Pancake Powerbomb)... All of his finishers suck.

@@jamesterrell5009 Yes that's correct I believe it was also called the Showstopper. He would bend his opponent over backwards put his leg across their neck then drop

@@jamesterrell5009 Also the Big Sleep was the Colossal Clutch

@@jamesterrell5009 it's sad because the Chokeslam worked

He also had the ally opp

Yes since he wasn't a millionaire at the time lol

Michael Hayes actually told Steve that he should start doing a finisher where he could hit it from anywhere because of the million dollar dream wasn’t getting anywhere

Indeed, Deadman Walking. Once again, a good choice, from the Freebird himself.

Agreed. I remember him using the Texas Cloverleaf against Bret Hart at SS96. I think that would have been a much better submission hold for him to keep using, provided that his knees would hold up.

Don't think Vince knew how to push Austin back then, why he was put with Dibiase to get him over...

Wasnt that the spinning spiked piledriver

Suplex piledriver according to the wwe games. The announcers still called it the Steiner Screwdriver when it hits in the games though.

Did u ever see him do a 450 splash , look it up on RU-vid, it's not flashy like people use it today but he did perform well for being such a built powerhouse

@@jorgegomez4761 I think it's cause he did it by accident and over rotated

The Teardrop Suplex is still on WWE Champions lol

Great reference of the SNES games. I had Royal Rumble and Raw. And yea he never used that suplex by the time Raw came out

Brian Barwick I remember a video from TNA where Jay Lethal and Ric Flair kept going back and forth with Wooo over and over again.

@@gregrowe1168 What! I need to find that!!

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@@gregrowe1168 the legendary Woo off. 🤣🤣🤣 I remember seeing it live on TNA before it was Impact. Man, Good times.

They both then should thank Stone Cold for not clowning them daily for plagiarism, since they, you know, STOLE THE STUNNER...

arpegio88 it was a move he could use on the bigger guys too. He wasn’t strong enough to pick up someone like undertaker or Kevin Nash, much less the big show.

@@gregrowe1168 Facts!

That's Rikishi's move!

@@diggadirt393 Rikishi always oversold every clothesline like he was shot by a 12 Gauge (especially the one by Bradshaw). That's when more guys started overselling just like him.

He can work for QVC

@@solascripturaPR1517: Rikishi also flipped when he got a clothesline from HHH.

The Pod Cast Off

That Judas Effect looks so weak and dumb

​@@dallasparty316ikr, I just don't know how people can say the code breaker was bad but the Judas effect was good. It looks so weak.

Facts

Fake stunner

*diamond cutter

Ye

Fake twist of fate

Pretty fast more like 2 years.

He also had The Moxcutter, which was just a Cutter lol

He had it for a couple years, then I think he changed it to the double underhook DDT because the headlock driver was apparently awkward to do on taller guys.

Never liked the original Dirty Deeds, glad he changed it, now Bayley is the one doing it (kinda)

Omega sometimes uses the ripcord, but not always as part of the V-Trigger.

He uses the v trigger as a finisher too

What finisher does he use to finish off a blow up doll?

mr pants I laughed 😂

@@mrpants5462 the same one he used on Riho 10 years ago when she was a kid.

Reality Check

It takes like ten minutes to set up tho lol. Brogue kick is awesome

I guess it was a bit of both.

I had forgotten about the storyline origins of what was originally the FU. The name made sense given the Lesnar/Cena feud at the time.

He said something to Brock like your finishing move is the f5 mines is the fu something along those lines

And the STF was originally the STFU

Book end was a signature move .

@@DanBarnett0727 He did use it as a Finisher for a brief moment

He used the Harlem Hangover when he first became a singles guy.

@@Scaramanga7 in the wwe it was called the Houston hangover

The Book End was a Ura Nage

Jon Moxley was the only other man I ever saw using it

The crossbody looked pretty cool though

Right? Tf was that😂

He also had one called "The ol' Rocky Johnson" too. It later became those slapping strikes that he did all the time.

That's why it dropped after he stopped using Rocky Maivia.

Waylon Mercy will NOT have any Miz slander.

This man doesn't know what he's talking about most of the time.

That move was garbage. The reality check was marginally better, and that isn't saying much.

I thought that arm wrench ddt thing was just a transitional move

I mean i'd use that move over The Kingslayer Knee or the Curb Stomp because the set up for the move can be really quick and has a bit of an "Out of Nowhere" aspect if used right

I think he used the DDT thing for like two weeks and then switched to the Pedigree

And you need a life........

...His old finisher and the RKO are called cutters, and so was DDP's (Diamond Dallas Page's) Diamond Cutter

And the Judas Effect

@@joeski1073 i don't know about that one. From what I've seen it looks really impactful.

The one he hit on Darby looked good. Any other time is as awkward as Luchasaurus' choreographed kicks

Anything that involves a splash from someone that's barely 200lbs.

@@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu that move is fucking stupid Jericho should use the breakdown again

Maryse also does this taunt lol