Cool finisher, horrible name

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Due to Styles' English translation of Engrish (since the word "rolling" said in a thick Japanese accent comes out "roaring"), we get it as the Roaring Elbow. Much cooler name than the Rolling Elbow, IMO.

 

And I always liked Sweet Chin Music as a name. I think it's actually a phrase for when you hit somebody right off the chin, and since the superkick primarily hits the person in the chin/jaw, it makes sense. His foot meeting their jaw makes sweet chin music.

[J.B. Buzzkill 0]

And I always liked Sweet Chin Music as a name. I think it's actually a phrase for when you hit somebody right off the chin, and since the superkick primarily hits the person in the chin/jaw, it makes sense. His foot meeting their jaw makes sweet chin music.

 

"Chin music" is actually a baseball term for when a pitcher throws a pitch that comes damn close to the batter's face.

 

I always thought "Edgecution" was a lame ass name for a finish.

[Team Angle Pusher 0]

Pedigree. Reminds of me of cat food

[Nighthawk 0]

Earthquake as a move worked because of the tremors.

 

By the way, I think Canadian Destroyer the move isn't very good. There's assisted, and then there's overly assisted. It just looks completely unrealistic to the point that it loses credibility to me.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Milky, you should check out the old thread in the TNA folder about the move. Half of us hate the move, the other half love it. I hate it for the reasons you just said: overly assisted and too business exposing. The ones who love it usually say "but we know it's fake anyway, so it's no more business exposing than any other cruiser move."

[Guest DuDe]

"Shining Wizard" always sounded kinda gaytastic to me...

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

I too hate the Canadian Destroyer. It looks like the person taking the move thought, "Oh no I'm in a piledriver position I better do a backflip!!"

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

I'd like to see somebody on the receiving end of the Canadian Destroyer to just fall backwards and arch their back so that they're feet are barely off the ground when they bump. It'd tork the back, but hot DAMN it'd make the move look good.

[Guest Macaroni]

I'd like to see somebody on the receiving end of the Canadian Destroyer to just fall backwards and arch their back so that they're feet are barely off the ground when they bump. It'd tork the back, but hot DAMN it'd make the move look good.

 

Personally I think Elix Skipper's Overdrive / Play of the Day and Austin Aries' Crucifix Driver are much more "fake" looking than the CD, but that's an argument for another thread.

[Masked Man of Mystery 0]

I put the fact that the Canadian Destroyer works up as part of wrestling physics.

[Nighthawk 0]

The bitch of it is that I think the CD could work, with somebody like the old school Scott Steiner doing it.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Yeah. If it was somebody who was MASSIVE and agile doing it, I could see it working. But not somebody who's smaller than a lot of his peers. Maybe if Petey was sitting on the top rope and his opponent was standing in the ring I could see it, because then he has momentum, but not just standing KICKWHAMFLIPbusinessexposingPILEDRIVER!

[TheInsane 0]

I never liked the name pedigree. I never really thought the move was that cool either to be honest.

 

I also dont like F5. Sure it makes sense and they did explain the name on television but I just dont find the name good at all. It doesnt sound threatening the way it should.

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

A pedigree is the best of its breed. The Pedigree has been put over as the best finisher in the WWF/WWE. I'm not 100% certain, but I'd be willing to bet that the Pedigree has been more effective than Hogan's Legdrop. Thus, it's the pedigree of wrestling moves: it always puts 'em away.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

I also dont like F5. Sure it makes sense and they did explain the name on television but I just dont find the name good at all. It doesnt sound threatening the way it should.

You must have never had to worry about a tornado, then. Living in the south, you hear F5, you just think "Oh, shit".

[Wrestlefreak 0]

The Shining Wizard= dumb name

[The Czech Republic 0]

I'm amazed at the number of heads that "Greetings From Asbury Park" went over. In addition, Edge-o-Matic is a play on Veg-o-Matic, which was that Ron Popeil product where he said "it slices, it dices," that whole deal. I think it was also the name of one of the fifty finishers the Midnight Express had.

[Boner Kawanger 0]

Too Much's finisher was even called the Veg-O-Matic.

[Mecha Mummy 0]

Space Tornado Ogawa (STO). Seriously, how the hell did it get that name anyway?

 

A guess: Naoya Ogawa was using the move and Japanese wrestlers come up with the craziest finisher names possible.

 

Seriously. ESPECIALLY in ToryuGate. Anthony W. Mori's old submission finisher was called "Escargot," for god's sake.

[LaParkaYourCar 0]

That's what STO stands for?? I always liked the name STO until now. I figured it meant Sweep Take Over since that's what it basically is.

[CanadianChris 0]

Most finishers that go by [wrestler's name]bomb/splash/slam/etc. are bad names.

 

eg. Batista Bomb, Earthquake Splash, Bossman Slam

The worst was Lesnar's Brocklock. Horrible name for an ultra-cool move. Come to think of it, "stretch muffler" isn't much better.

 

I always hated "Unprettier" as a move name.

[DangerousDamon 0]

Doesn't Trent Acid call his inverted brainbuster the Shovel Driver or some such shit?

[King Cucaracha 0]

Too Much's finisher was even called the Veg-O-Matic.

 

I'm not sure what Too Much called it, but The Midnight Express originated and named it and it's called that when anyone uses it. AMW call it the Vegomatic too.

[JST 0]

AMW call it the Vegomatic too.

 

Wrong. Death Sentence.

[TheInsane 0]

I also dont like F5. Sure it makes sense and they did explain the name on television but I just dont find the name good at all. It doesnt sound threatening the way it should.

You must have never had to worry about a tornado, then. Living in the south, you hear F5, you just think "Oh, shit".

 

 

You're absolutely right about that. I live in Sweden and we dont have tornados over here.

[Epic Reine 0]

DDT stood for Damien's Dinner Time. That's what Jake would call it during his first WWF run.

[Ed Wood Caulfield 0]

Death Valley Driver during the feud with Eddie Guerrero, and just a roll-up or the Proto-Bomb (Blue Thunder Bomb) before then.

 

I think the Death Valley Driver was called the Killswitch before the Lesnar feud. I remember seeing an episode of SmackDown! where they did a Tale Of The Tape for a match Cena was wrestling in, and for "finisher", they put Killswitch. I think Tazz also called it the Killswitch one time on SmackDown! too.

[hyperchord24 0]

Enough about the Canadian Destroyer. Yeah, you have to suspend your disbelief, but same with anything related to the Gory Special (including the vertebraker). I mean come on, if the guy really wanted to get out of the move, all he had to do was unlock his arms. This is wrestling people. Finishers get over if they LOOK cool.

[razazteca 0]

Most finishers that go by [wrestler's name]bomb/splash/slam/etc. are bad names.

 

eg. Batista Bomb, Earthquake Splash, Bossman Slam

The worst was Lesnar's Brocklock. Horrible name for an ultra-cool move. Come to think of it, "stretch muffler" isn't much better.

 

I always hated "Unprettier" as a move name.

Didn't Tommy Rogers call the move Tommikazi? Or was it only Joey Styles that called it that?

[Corey_Lazarus 0]

Difference being that a Gory Guerrero Special is only loosely applied because if it was locked on tightly it could tear your pectoral muscles. The Reverse Gory Special Driver is a decent stretch of the suspension of disbelief, but not so much when the person doing the move does it in one fluid motion (ie. Megumi Kudo, who I believe originated the move, with her Kudo Driver; Homicide's Cop Killer version which is more of a faceplant than a head-drop, IIRC). The Canadian Destroyer just doesn't look that believable due to Petey's small stature (he's smaller than most of his X-Division brethren, actually) and the fact that he usually stalls right before hitting it (making me ask the question of why his opponent just doesn't tackle Petey down to the mat).

 

Though, I will say this regarding the CD'er: last week's Impact had a 6-man tag of Team Canada vs. Sabin/Dutt/Bentley, and the CD'er that Williams hit on Sabin was MARVELOUS in how quick it was (and thus pretty believable). Sabin was hunched over because he was hit below the belt, Petey hit the ropes, and BAM! CD'er.