Finishers that never caught on

[Guest Kojack]

This is for finisher that were used a couple of times but never used again. Here is what i can remeber.

 

1)The one and Only (Billy Gunn)

2)BreakDown (y2J)

3) Alleyoop (Big Show)

4) Dragon Sleeper (Undertaker)

5) Angles moonsault (Kurt Angle)

 

Thats all I can think of right now!

List your list

[Guest]

Hulk Hogan performing moves besides the Big Boot and Leg Drop.  Also this move:

 

[Guest art_vandelay]

1) Union Jack (Rega's neckbreaker)

2) Regal Stretch

3) Harlem Sidekick

4) Scotty's Springboard/Diving DDT

5) Kane's Powerbomb

6) Edge's inverted Sharpshooter-thing

7) Lasso from El Paso

8) Hollycaust

[Guest]

For whatever reason, I thought the Goon checking his opponent into the ringside barrier and getting the count out win as cool as all hell. Granted, it's really fuckin stupid overall, but just the fact that they had the balls to try to get that over as a credible finisher makes me smile.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Shawn Michaels' Nut Suplex.

Edge's Flatliner.

Big Show's Final Cut.

[Guest phoenixrising]

Another one of Big Show's - the Final Cut that he was using when he came back from OVW...Hurricane also used it as the Eye of the Hurricane, but the move was never over.

 

Any of Booker's finishers.

[Guest Flyboy]

Any of Booker's finishers.

I think the Harlem Hangover was pretty over...

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

He probably means right now.

 

I'll add anyone who used the Superkick during the InVasion.

[Guest J*ingus]

Any of the neckbreaker variations that Chyna/Regal/Show/Gunn/Helms tried to use as finishers.  

 

Any variation on the Michinoku Driver/Rikishi Driver/Snowplex/Falcoln Arrow.

[Guest Army Eye]

6) Edge's inverted Sharpshooter-thing

A shame.  That's like the only cool move Edge has ever done.

[Guest Cataclysm911]

6) Edge's inverted Sharpshooter-thing

A shame.  That's like the only cool move Edge has ever done.

I think that it failed simply because Micheal Cole tried to get it over by calling it the "Figure Four Edge Lock."

 

It was doomed from the beginning.

[Guest papacita]

Diesel's iron fist.

 

The "DDS" (Issac Yankem)

 

The Downward Spiral and the Edge-u-cator (both could've gotten over if he used them more)

 

Anything done by Show other than the chokeslam

 

Lance Storm's half crab (seems a little too weak compared to the other finishers)

[Guest caboose]

For some reason Christian's Unprettier won't get over, probably cos it's called the 'Unprettier'.

I mean to quote Christian having that move done on you would be 'BRUTAL'.

[Guest Andy]

Anything involving Billy Gunn.

 

Andy

[Guest]

Molly's 450 whoopee cushion. I like that move, too.

[Guest Your Olympic Hero]

Sgt. Slaughter's atomic noogie!  Does anyone have a better quality picture than the one above or a video of this move?  I never had the "pleasure" of viewing it.

[Guest papacita]

The "Tori Suplex"...which was really just a cool looking version of Big Show's Alley-OOP...I can only remember her doing it to Ivory at SummerSlam  99 tho.

[Guest Rick001]

The Tazmission saddly in the WWE it never got over becuase just about anyone could somehow break free

 

Doinks whoopie cushion (top rope sit down splash) also a really odd submission he used to to when he first came to the WWF that he did for like 2 weeks then stopped

 

Diesel's one punch knock out

 

Lex Luger running forearm (he hit you with the arm that had a steel plate in it thus knocking you out)

 

Lance Storms Mapleleaf (the half crab) good in WCW somehow weak in WWE

 

The Hardy Boyz (leg drop, splash from the top rope) used to always do it now the rarley do it

 

Matt Hardy's Razor's Edge type move he used before he got a total additude overhaul

 

Bastion Boogers knee drop (becuase he always lost thus never used it plus he was a bad wrestler)

 

And the Tiger Bomb in general seems never to catch on

[Guest Human Fly]

"also a really odd submission he used to to when he first came to the WWF that he did for like 2 weeks then stopped"

 

The step-ladder? That move was great. Doink's adversary would be sitting up, Doink would then sit on their neck, and pull their leg up so their foot was around their head. It was great, and really looked painful.

[Guest Brian]

Man, the Hardys got fucked up when they came to the WWF. They lost all their workrate or something, but they used to be incredible. On a side note, I was watching some old nitro comp I have and Regal is doing fucking lucha and keeping up with Guerrero and Rey in a tag match.

[Guest DokDoyle]

"also a really odd submission he used to to when he first came to the WWF that he did for like 2 weeks then stopped"

 

The step-ladder? That move was great. Doink's adversary would be sitting up, Doink would then sit on their neck, and pull their leg up so their foot was around their head. It was great, and really looked painful.

Big Bully Busik(sp?) used it too....Didn't they call it the Stump-puller

[Guest Risk]

Off-topic: The Hardys really need an attitude change--fast.  I loved the mirror universe "dark" Hardys with Hayes and then Grel.  Copeland and Reso vs. Matt and Jeff the first time could have been like The Rock N' Roll Express vs. The Midnight Express feud.  I remember I marked out when the Brood received a Blood Bath.

[Guest]

The 'Crash-Landing'.

 

Crash's splash off the top rope, where he'd jump from across the ring, land on his feet, run up to his opponent and do a standing splash for the 1,2,3.

 

I was never nor am I now, a Crash fan, but that was pure comedy.

[Guest Anglesault]

The "Tori Suplex"...which was really just a cool looking version of Big Show's Alley-OOP...I can only remember her doing it to Ivory at SummerSlam  99 tho.

She used it on Lita to save Steph's title in 2000 when everyone and their mother would run in and beat Lita up.

[Guest EI Cubano]

You know I scrolled all the way to the bottom of this thread and was SHOCKED that someone actually beat me to the "stump-puller" by Big Bully Busick.

"Mean" Mark Callous used a pretty weak hearthpunch as his finisher in his pre-Undertaker days in WCW that never really got over that well.

[Guest Zack Malibu]

I don't think the Rings Of Saturn got over in the WWF, and Saturn's "strangle submission" didn't exactly set the world on fire either.

 

How about The Berzerker's "Throw opponent out of the ring and win by countout?"  Just as lame (if not MORE lame) as The Goon's "Body Check of Doom".

[Guest Anglesault]

Saturns Full Nelson slam thing he used for like a week

[Guest Ash Ketchum]

Hmmmmm...

 

Hardcore Holly's "Forearm/Punch/Elbow Smash To The Head With A Metal Plate In It" never did either.

[Guest]

At least that's better than his feared DROPKICK of DOOM!!!

[Guest]

Test's pump handle slam.

Viscera's roll around on the floor and claim it was a spinning heel kick.