@@garydelong7750I guess even though he asked, Christian didn't feel he could say no given his current position maybe (like he said in the video) Especially how political it can get you don't want to get potentially bad mouthed before you even get your foot in the door.
@@garydelong7750 if I got power to make sure u don't make it by political favor but I ask nicely you will feel powerless so what can u do other than say yes or forever be a indie worker
I do like the Unprettier, but we probably think it's best suited to Christian because he's used it for so long. I think we would have a similar opinion if he got to use that cutter for a similar length of time.
@@user-nd6gc9gs8s Nah, the Unprettier is just cooler lol. If this was always so, people would preferred Drew to have the Future Shock DDT over the Claymore. Some things just fit
True but I would have liked to see it more as a move from him. You're right about land of giants but it still would have been too sweet to see as part of a heavy pop sequence
I have to say the tko is a finisher which can look so cool if you execute it right. It looks completely different if you execute it with huge strength + add a high jump to it, which results in you spinning with your opponent a bit and then it hits. I used to be a amateur wrestler and the tko was my finisher.
plus it's unpractical for him later down the road when he's with the even bigger guys. though marc did a batter unprettier in japan , he added a run or a jump to it and juice robinson later took that version as his own finisher.
Nah the killswitch looks silly, when and how would you use that in an actual fight? The TKO looks deadly and cool. I do think tho that Christian would struggle to lift bigger guys up tho for the TKO, but the Killswitch is still the lamest finnisher imo, just so unrealistic, you'd just never actually get that move to work irl.
Too long to set up...I can say it's the most unprotected finisher I've ever seen... I would have loved if Christian would have done either a Frog Splash and or Springboard forearm like Aj
Chelsea Green has used one called the I'mprettier, and Juice Robinson used it in NJPW (I forget what he called it), but fair point, I can't think of any others and Christian still does it best.
If you think about it, it set a butterfly effect in play. If Christian didn't give that finisher to Mero, that finisher name wouldn't have been in consideration for Orton to replace his overdrive with. TKO was partly the reason the RKO was born
@@joshschneider9766 That overdrive finish he had was so bad though. He wouldn't be as iconic if he kept that. Plus what other finisher would he have had that showed his athleticism without it being a top rope move? there's not a lot
Dude what 😂 that's awesome. In CT all we had was dumbass UCONN basketball players who would show up and after every single sentence would say "Nah'm Sayin?" 😂😂😂
Marc Mero used it, then his wife Sable used it, Brock Lesnar then stole the move and Sable from Marc.... this guy lost his finisher and his wife to the same dude
@@mical2greatit's not really that deep, the example you made it worse lol. He asked for the move and Christian simply said yes, could've just said no with absolutely no consequences
@@shunakiyama6275 Marc finisher was a shooting star press, after his injury he needed a new finish for his return, he changed his style to the boxer gimmick and no longer the high flying wild man
Hey, at least he buys you dinner and ask you directly, wrestler these days would just straight up stole it and said you stole it from someone else as their argument
Coming up with a unique finish is pretty difficult. I had a silly gimmick in the Indies called Pulsar. The cool part was at the end of all of my promos I used my catchphrase "fade to Black" as I referenced knocking my opponents out. I moved my hands towards the camera and I had them go in a downward motion as if I was closing someone's eyes like you would a dead persons. When I did that I told the cameraman to make the camera fade to black at the same time. That was pretty cool considering it was in the early 2000s. No one had ever done anything like that. So I had a submission maneuver called the fade to Black which was basically a rings of Saturn combined with a head scissors. It looked quite painful. Imagine sitting on someone's back and bending their arms backwards while popping their head like a pimple. I also needed a pinning finisher and I went with what I called the atomic driver but I had to rename it to suit my character. It was basically a Samoan driver that I hit while catching someone off the ropes. This way it sort of looked like a inverted blue thunder bomb. I called it Critical Mass. To this day I have yet to see anyone else use those finishers. As far as I know I invented them.
He literally said in this video that it was a cutter variation. A cutter is where you do a full horizontal drop and the opponents head hits the map, the stunner is where you do a sit down drop and the opponent doesn't hit the mat on the drop but rather meets your bicep or shoulder and then springs backward after impact.
@@EmberwindTale And Im saying there was at least 1 or 2 times he did it and there was a stunner instead of a rko lol I thought it was a cool ass move I liked Marc Mero briefly lol
@@EmberwindTale Turns out im not crazy he did do a Stunner version but due to Stone Cold just hitting the ground and running with a stunner he was told to not do that again.
Cause I was just about to say Mero had been using it way before Christian showed up in WWE. But these stories are cool to listen to, noting the chemistry between the guys on and off screen.
I still remember when Marc came to my school to do a motivational speech. I was legit shocked. We didn't get any heads up prior. You could tell the kids that knew about wrestling because this was like 2009, so way past his era, you could hear kids be like, damn, no way he came out with the intercontinental belt.
One of those small things that helped another wrestlers career. Like with me, my brother worked with a wrestler and he introduced us the wrestler took me to my first seminar "Brutal" Bob Evans. 6 years later I've done so many things in the business IWA Mid South, Ohio Valley Wrestling, to name a few. And that wrestler is l retired I still wrestle and he's my best friend on planet earth.
He didn’t steal it, he asked for it. Respect for giving it to him. Like you said everything happens for a reason. Look where you are now. And Marc Mero isn’t even in the business. Christian didn’t need it🤷🏽♂️
Will say, perfect example of managing power dynamics in the business. Marc new he was in a spot to do such a thing but kept it as respectable and Lowkey as possible. It sucks that Christian was on the other end of this but I could easily name 5 other wrestlers who were likely to do that without asking or even a dinner.
I feel like a lot of people don't get that this was very very frustrating to Christian in real life : the body language, tone, and even how he tells the story - "yeah it's not funny"- gives a LOT away
honestly it's great that marc did that. christian doesn't really have the build/maybe strength to really get that move over. it's like the f5, but reverse.
A scoop lift into a cutter is different from an aerospin lift & turn into a cutter. I did see him use the actual move in a tag team match on RAW 20 Yeyears ago tho...
Marc having the decency to take a complete unknown out to dinner and asking to use his finisher when he could have just taken it says a lot about Marc's character.
Worked out for the best..God definitely blessed him for the character he showed while being humble..so glad it ended up working out about as best a situation for Christian with the series of events that followed him "giving" it to Marc..i think it was still a dirty underhanded move by him but hey God works in mysterious ways
This would have been an awesome move for ryback, tyler rex after John Cena banned his burning hammer, Ezekiel jackson, or even mason ryan. Apollo crews should add this as well.
Me and my older brother thought we created that finisher on the trampoline 🤣😭 so to be fair christian I'm pretty sure that everybody has done that, just like brocks F5
Marc Mero was a good wrestler and athlete, but his career ended the second he let Sable power bomb and pin him. It was completely impossible to take him seriously afterwards.
I think he ended up with the better finisher in the end anyway, so it definitely worked out for the better for Christian in the end. I do like that version of the TKO too, tbh, but the Unprettier is better. Christian has also been very successful in his fairly long career.
