The five knuckle shuffle is and always will be a poor man's version of the people's elbow.
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Who has the worst wrestling finisher
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The five knuckle shuffle is and always will be a poor man's version of the people's elbow.
BewareTheBatsie
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Styles Clash is the one finisher I would be scared of receiving due to the few botches I've seen happen with it when people forget to tuck their head back.
JBL's clothesline is a thing a beauty, if any clothesline is deserving as a finisher, it's his.
Wow. Look how much the crowd just loves this.
shortsFortallPeople
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Hogan's leg drop is also some weaksauce
A freaking cool elbow drop though.
Hogan's Leg Drop wouldn't be so bad if it didn't look so slow and lazy.
It is an elbow drop, but he always sells it so well that it looks really sweet.
This is AWESOME
Major props for the dude who made thi .... this looks insanely hard to pull off on a wrestling show
Aeternus Malum
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I thought the Curb Stomp was stupid back when it was The Blackout. I dunno how it looked so convincing on the main roster.
zswordsman
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But he actually killed a guy doing that move man. Or something like that.
Ninja Scooter
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Edge's spear is the worst of all time.
Big Show started using the KO punch I think in 2008. What makes it so bad is when you actually see how weak his punch is.
Big Show is one of the most pure strikers in wrestling history, only behind the likes of The Undertaker and Tank Abbott. Many can vouch for this simple truth.
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Kevin Nash's Lazybomb always looked super weak.
For you old school rassling fans, do you remember The Bezerker's finishing move?
He would throw his opponents over the top rope and waited for them to get counted out.
For you old school rassling fans, do you remember The Bezerker's finishing move?
He would throw his opponents over the top rope and waited for them to get counted out.
HUSS! HUSS! HUSS!
BewareTheBatsie
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Darkly Tranquil
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That was Scotty2Hotty of the tag team 2Cool. It wasn't an actual finisher though, just signature gimmick move.
As for worst finisher, for modern wrestlers (Attitude era and beyond) I'd give it to either Edge's spear, or (sadly) Finn Balor's double foot stomp. Actually Rusev's Accolade is terrible too.
Ninja Scooter
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context though. Hogan's leg drop was created in a time when people were using bear hugs and sleeper holds as finishers.
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His original finisher was awesome (springboard hurracan-rana pin). But with him wrestling much bigger people, he had to find a different finisher.
wat.
Fair point.
Darkly Tranquil
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Yeah, pretty much everyone's finishers sucked back then, except perhaps for Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka.
mariachi507
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I read Foley's book a couple of weeks ago, that's exactly what Vince said to him.
I'm actually cool with Hogan's Legdrop because it's the last blow in his hulking up sequence. If you count the whole sequence as a finishing move then it's probably the most hype finisher ever.
Edge's spear was god awful! He should have stuck with the flatliner, and that's saying something because that's not very good either (unless performed on Puma by God King Mil). Roman's spear is good at times, but nobody will ever top Goldberg. It always looked like he tackled the soul out of someone.
For the current generation, I'm not a fan of Ziggler's zig zag or the Miz's skull crushing finale.
I could probably write a book on my favorite finishers.
I thought this thread was about the worst finishers.
shaowebb
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Sgt. Slaughter's Atomic Noogie.
A lot of classics sucked.
Crush's Heartpunch was one of the worst
Roddy Piper's Sleeper hold...and it hurts to say this because the man was GOLDEN in the ring and on the mic for psychology and entertainment. Dean Ambrose reminds me of him a lot...except Piper could actually box.
Hogan's Leg Drop...
...and its sequel The Ultimate Warrior's Running Splash which half the time was done to someone's back.
Speaking of, The Great Kahli does his stupid Brain Chop finisher in this clip. So bad.
Charlotte Flair does the worst spear of them all.
I forget the guy's name, but his finishing move was to give a guy a super noogie.
Also, the Berserker just threw guys outside the ring and won by countout.
EDIT: Duh, Sergeant Slaughter did a noogie.
"What a manoeuvre!"The Big Ending
He slams his opponent down onto his own body.
90% of wrestling moves including finishers are basically falling from waist to shoulder height if you boil them down. The flash plus wrestlers putting the move over are what make it.
gutter_trash
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I agree, Slaughter's Cobra Clutch suck ass balls, and Slaughter was the worst character in the WWF WrestleFest arcade game
Roddy Piper's Sleeper hold...and it hurts to say this because the man was GOLDEN in the ring and on the mic for psychology and entertainment. Dean Ambrose reminds me of him a lot...except Piper could actually box.
The sleeper hold is a great finisher... it's a rear-naked choke in MMA and finishes fights all the time. One of the more legit moves in pro-wrestling. You could legit choke someone out from that position pretty easily.
Junior Asparagus
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A lot of the best ones have been said, but I'll add X-Pac. I always thought the Bronco Buster was really stupid, and the X-Factor was just slamming a guy's face into the ground. Not theatrical enough for pro wrestling.
shaowebb
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Yokozuna
Edit: it could also be Rikishi
Are you kidding me? Banzai Drop is STILL one of the most legit shook finishers ever.
I thought Yoko straight up murdered people
FallingEdge
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Brock makes everything look better though
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