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Guest barnacles

What were your favourite old school finishers?

They were so devestating back in the 80's, always finished a match. Among mine were......

 

1)DDT (jake)

 

2)Million Dollar Dream (di Biase)

 

3)Ghostbuster (koko b. ware)

 

4)Tombstone - it scared me

 

5)Chicken-wing crossface (backlund) - he scared me

 

how's about YOU???

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Guest Dr. Wrestlingphysics

I liked Jake's DDT, 'Taker's tombstone and Strike Force's/Santana's flying forearm.

Even as a kid I thought the Legdrop of Doom was pretty rubbish.

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Guest cobainwasmurdered

Jake's DDT

Tombstone Piledriver

Perfect-Plex

Crossface chicken-wing

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Guest Drury37

I liked the Million Dollar Dream,Randy Savage's flying forearm and Ultimate Warrior's Power Press Slam,I must say though Hogan's Big Boot and Leg Drop was cool in it's time.

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Guest Drury37

Man Earthquake's finisher was pretty scary,I mean sure guys know how to take that bump but when 400 pounds pounds on your chest it has to be very painful.

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Man Earthquake's finisher was pretty scary,I mean sure guys know how to take that bump but when 400 pounds pounds on your chest it has to be very painful.

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Yokozuna's was even worse, and more deadly.

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Guest Drury37

That's true because he was bigger and he was jumping from much higher up than Earthquake was.

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Guest JHawk

I always liked Tito Santana's flying forearm, particularly when he hit it and landed on top of the guy in a pinning position.

 

One old school finisher I never understood was Ivan Putski's Polish Hammer.  It's a fucking double-axhandle, everybody used the damn thing and nobody else ever got the pin.  But we were supposed to buy it because of the roided up arms or something.

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Guest razazteca

Ronnie Garvins Stomp was cool

Figure 4 by Flair

Stinger Splash

Moonsault by Vader

Road Warriors finisher

Double Dropkick by Rock & Roll Express

Rocket Launcher by the Fantastics

the Lariat by Nikika Koloff/Stan Hanson

Torture Rack by 80s Luger

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Guest dreamer420

The Garvin stomp was the cheesiest move I have ever seen.  It almost hurts watching so wrestlers have to sell that crap.

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Guest Drury37

HAHA!!!The Garvin Stomp!!!It was so funny looking when he gave the Garvin Stomp to Frenchy Martin at WWF WrestleMania V.

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Guest Drury37

Yeah your right and Rugged Ronnie made it that much better.  Drury37 and Dreamer420 the undisputed SmarkBoard Tag Team Champions!!!

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Guest razazteca

Ronnie Garvins Power of the Stomp was feared by many jobbers in the NWA.

 

Drury37 don't make have to use the Hawaiin Crush

Dreamer420 don't make me have to use the Heart Punch

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Guest gwf0704

1)The Von Erich Claw (choose your von erich)

2)Figure Four Leg Lock (Ric Flair)

3)DDT (Jake the snake Roberts)

4)Superkick (Chris Adams)

5)Piledriver (Jerry the king Lawler)

6)Brainbuster (Gorgeous Jimmy Garvin)

7)Lariat (Stan Hansen)

8)Scorpion Death Lock (Sting)

9)Torture Rack (Lex Luger)

10)Full Nelson (Billy Jack)

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Guest goodhelmet

Man, I loved Arn Anderson's spinebuster. Lethal

 

Jimmy Snuka's Superfly Splash

Randy Savage's elbow

-both were high impact

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Guest barnacles

Yeah, I loved Earthquake's finisher - it killed Damian the Snake for Christ sakes!

I really loved the Rockers combination finisher, with Shawn splashing from the top rope, they were so cool, mullets and all.

I never really thought of hogans leg drop as devestating, it was more the event than anything else, like the peoples elbow, it sucked a dick. I liked savages elbow, because there weren't that many top rope moves.

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Guest Caliban

The Tombstone... now there was a scary-looking move at the time. And it was so cool how Undertaker would fold the arms to go for a cover. He needs to do that again.

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Guest Drury37

Yeah the Tombstone Piledriver was a very freaky move and it was even worse when he would do it to somebody when they were in a body bag that was just crazy.

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Guest Singular

I loved Ricky Steamboats Double chickenwing and flying cross body.

Rick Martel's Boston Crab was smooth as well until it became the pussified version being the walls of Jericho.

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Guest Drury37

I also thought the Sharpshooter was a cool finisher and it was great for a guy like Bret Hart.

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Guest Drury37

Rude's Rude Awakening was good but after a while a lot of guys started breaking out of it.He never hit it the first time in any big matches he ever had.

HAPPY 600th POST TO ME!!!

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Guest JHawk

As far as piledrivers went, Paul Orndorff was the man.  He always jumped with it and I never saw it look fake.  HOGAN sold it well for chrissakes.

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Yeah,Hogan usually doesen't sell anything but he knows that Orndorfs piledrivers were so good that he sold,now that's saying something for him and his piledriver.

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Guest ShamRock

Randy Savage's top rope elbow drop

Hogan's leg drop

Million Dollar Dream

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Guest dreamer420

The sharpshooter was my absolute favorite.  I loved Bret Hart back in the day more than any other wrestler so his moves were the coolest.  The hate how the Rock butchers it now.

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