Soul-Crushing Wrestling Finishing Moves

[Phoenix]

What? No 619?

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[Cowboy Brian]

RKO, Pedigree and Sweet Chin Music are my favorite.

RKO love how quickly Orton hits it.

I despise the Rock Bottom, it doesn't even look like it would hurt, same with Cena's finisher & the Stunner looks cool, but really doesn't look like it would end someone after a 20 minute physical match... Just seems anti climatic to me.

 

[Hoofbite]

RKO, Pedigree and Sweet Chin Music are my favorite.

RKO love how quickly Orton hits it.

I despise the Rock Bottom, it doesn't even look like it would hurt, same with Cena's finisher & the Stunner looks cool, but really doesn't look like it would end someone after a 20 minute physical match... Just seems anti climatic to me.

If like the RKO, you should check out old footage of the Diamond Cutter.

About a million different variations of it and 1000X more charisma, not to mention the kick *** mullet.

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[Cowboy Brian]

If like the RKO, you should check out old footage of the Diamond Cutter.

About a million different variations of it and 1000X more charisma, not to mention the kick *** mullet.

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I didn't really like DDP. (I've watched a ton of WCW.. Booker T is my favorite "homegrown" WCW talent that was a main eventer in WCW, overall it would be Eddie G but you could also give that credit to Mexican promotions..)

I also am not the biggest Orton fan, but he embodies the WWE style of slow methodical matches to perfection, but he is SOOO much better as a heel. He's one of my favorite heels over the last few years, while as a face he bores the hell out of me. Trying to be like Stone Cold minus 90% of the charisma is a huge problem. Mr.Kennedy/Mr.Anderson was the right guy to succeed the Austin gimmick, hell he has gotten a "Im a *******" gimmick over in TNA, which needs to be dropped asap, but in true Bischoff/Russo fashion once something gets over they run with it for as long as humanly possible.

 

[Yeagermeister]

I prefer Lawlers pilediver from the 80's......just ask Andy Kaufman

 

[Biggems]

The Iron Claw baby....classic Von Erich...I loved when Kerry put it on Ric Flair and made him bleed all over the DFW Metroplex.

I like the Undertaker's submission hold, but I forget what it is called.

Some of my favorite finishers.....The Iron Claw, Sweet Chin Music, Scorpion Death Lock, Scorpion Death Drop, Figure 4, Tombstone Piledriver, Stone Cold Stunner, Diamond Cutter, the Unprettier, and I forget the name (but the one Gregory Helms used in the last days of WCW...it has since been banned by the WWE I believe). Back in the day, the top rope Frankensteiner was awesome.

Oh I also love the finisher that AJ Styles uses, as well as the one Petey Williams used to use.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

The Iron Claw baby....classic Von Erich...I loved when Kerry put it on Ric Flair and made him bleed all over the DFW Metroplex.

I like the Undertaker's submission hold, but I forget what it is called.

Some of my favorite finishers.....The Iron Claw, Sweet Chin Music, Scorpion Death Lock, Scorpion Death Drop, Figure 4, Tombstone Piledriver, Stone Cold Stunner, Diamond Cutter, the Unprettier, and I forget the name (but the one Gregory Helms used in the last days of WCW...it has since been banned by the WWE I believe). Back in the day, the top rope Frankensteiner was awesome.

Oh I also love the finisher that AJ Styles uses, as well as the one Petey Williams used to use.

Can't believe I forgot those two, Petey Williams was the greatest. and the F5 was awesome too.



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[BrAinPaiNt]

Back in the day there was a move by Tully Blanchard (sp?) called the slingshot suplex. I did not really care much for the wrestler but the move was kind of cool.

I think someone else used the move some years later with a little better pop to it.

 

[RoyTheHammer]

I didn't really like DDP. (I've watched a ton of WCW.. Booker T is my favorite "homegrown" WCW talent that was a main eventer in WCW, overall it would be Eddie G but you could also give that credit to Mexican promotions..)

I also am not the biggest Orton fan, but he embodies the WWE style of slow methodical matches to perfection, but he is SOOO much better as a heel. He's one of my favorite heels over the last few years, while as a face he bores the hell out of me. Trying to be like Stone Cold minus 90% of the charisma is a huge problem. Mr.Kennedy/Mr.Anderson was the right guy to succeed the Austin gimmick, hell he has gotten a "Im a *******" gimmick over in TNA, which needs to be dropped asap, but in true Bischoff/Russo fashion once something gets over they run with it for as long as humanly possible.

You think Orton is going for the Austin type gimmick.. at all?

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[RoyTheHammer]

If like the RKO, you should check out old footage of the Diamond Cutter.

About a million different variations of it and 1000X more charisma, not to mention the kick *** mullet.

Nice man. DDP was the friggin boss. And i agree, the Diamond Cutter was so much better than the RKO.

 

[zrinkill]

Nice man. DDP was the friggin boss. And i agree, the Diamond Cutter was so much better than the RKO.

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[Hoofbite]

I didn't really like DDP. (I've watched a ton of WCW.. Booker T is my favorite "homegrown" WCW talent that was a main eventer in WCW, overall it would be Eddie G but you could also give that credit to Mexican promotions..)

I dunno. I liked Sting an awful lot. Way more than Booker T. Booker T was pretty crappy on WCW, IMO.

Goldberg was a way better character than Booker T. This is easily one of most impressive things I've seen in wrestling.
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Anymore though, I wish Sting would go back to not talking.

Big Show has had a good career.

I'd say there are a number better than Booker T.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

Diamond Cutter was cooler than the RKO but I do agree that I love the way Randy does it and does it out of nowhere.

DDP was pretty under-rated in all honesty.

I really liked Booker in WCW but more so for his tag team of Harlem Heat than for anything he did as a singles wrestler there. I'd agree that Show, Sting, and Goldberg (who I wasn't a fan of) were all certainly better homegrown guys in WCW than Booker was.

As far as the Rockbottom goes...eh there are ones I like better but I have no issue with the Rockbottom. ANd just because a finisher doesn't look like it will hurt means nothing at all. Let someone hit you with the full force of a Rockbottom sometime and find out. Smashing your back, and the back of your head, against the ground isn't going to tickle.

The Stunner, while maybe it doesn't look like it should finish someone off, is one of those things I just liked, like the Rockbottom, or the Angle Slam, or Diamond Cutter or RKO cause they're things you could do quickly, out of nowhere, and use a persons momentum to get it to work.

I know it's all fake, we all do, but I've absolutely always hated the finishers that required a long time (relatively speaking for wrestling) to use cause there is absolutely no reason an opponent should allow them to do it then.

Things like The Styles Clash, The Peoples Elbow, and things like that just don't do it for me.

In fact if you want the best finisher ever, IMO, and has never been topped...Jake 'The Snake' Roberts DDT.

LOVED IT. Quick, fast, deadly, and could just come out of nowhere and didn't require an opponent standing around, waiting for you to lock a bunch of stuff in to get it off.

I mean it did when Jake would go to showing off but the brilliance of the move was that he didn't have to do any of that. Loved it.

 

[DallasGirl50]

Either one of Taker's. ...Tombstone or Hell's Gate would be my favorite. And Jericho said the Rockbottom hurts. He should know.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

One of my favs was the kneelift from Mr Wrestling 2.

 

[Cowboy Brian]

Nothing similar about styles clash and peoples elbow

Diamond Cutter was cooler than the RKO but I do agree that I love the way Randy does it and does it out of nowhere.

DDP was pretty under-rated in all honesty.

I really liked Booker in WCW but more so for his tag team of Harlem Heat than for anything he did as a singles wrestler there. I'd agree that Show, Sting, and Goldberg (who I wasn't a fan of) were all certainly better homegrown guys in WCW than Booker was.

As far as the Rockbottom goes...eh there are ones I like better but I have no issue with the Rockbottom. ANd just because a finisher doesn't look like it will hurt means nothing at all. Let someone hit you with the full force of a Rockbottom sometime and find out. Smashing your back, and the back of your head, against the ground isn't going to tickle.

The Stunner, while maybe it doesn't look like it should finish someone off, is one of those things I just liked, like the Rockbottom, or the Angle Slam, or Diamond Cutter or RKO cause they're things you could do quickly, out of nowhere, and use a persons momentum to get it to work.

I know it's all fake, we all do, but I've absolutely always hated the finishers that required a long time (relatively speaking for wrestling) to use cause there is absolutely no reason an opponent should allow them to do it then.

Things like The Styles Clash, The Peoples Elbow, and things like that just don't do it for me.

In fact if you want the best finisher ever, IMO, and has never been topped...Jake 'The Snake' Roberts DDT.

LOVED IT. Quick, fast, deadly, and could just come out of nowhere and didn't require an opponent standing around, waiting for you to lock a bunch of stuff in to get it off.

I mean it did when Jake would go to showing off but the brilliance of the move was that he didn't have to do any of that. Loved it.

 

[zrinkill]

Things like The Styles Clash

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[TellerMorrow34]

Nothing similar about styles clash and peoples elbow

Except that they both suck and take the whole show thing to a whole nother level due to both of them requiring the person to pretty much sit around and wait for someone to do the move.

The People's Elbow takes even longer cause it's The Rock showing off but the Styles Clash is just plain stupid as well, IMO.

They're both awful. Along with other things like The Worm, The Leg Drop, and that finisher that people went OOOOO and AAAAAAWWWWW over that Williams did with the flipping piledriver.

Did it look cool? Sure. Did I believe it or look forward to it? Not at all.