What are some finishing moves that wrestlers used for only a short time? For example, when Diesel first started wrestling in the wwf, his finisher was a heart punch before he switched his finisher to the jackknife powerbomb soon after. Also, didnt Big Show use an inverted ddt variation called "the final cut" for a few months?

What are some finishing moves that wrestlers used for only a short time? For example, when Diesel first started wrestling in the wwf, his finisher was a heart punch before he switched his finisher to the jackknife powerbomb soon after. Also, didnt Big Show use an inverted ddt variation called "the final cut" for a few months?

 

The Final Cut (iirc) was a reverse DDT set up into an elbow drop, the person giving the move spinning 180 in the process.

 

EDIT: Pretty much.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSBPOBFVN-k

Crush also used the Heart Punch when he came back in 1996.

 

Nice topic. I watched a ton of B-shows so I've got a few of these.

 

Big Show also used the Alley-Oop right before he joined the WWE NWO. He set the guy up for a powerbomb, but heaved him over his shoulders so the guy took a flat stomach bump. Looked like crap.

 

Chris Jericho using the Breakdown in 2002. Same as the Miz's Skull Crushing Finale.

 

Mark Jindrak using a knockout left hand after he left Angle's stable.

 

Brutus Beefcake as The Disciple using "The Apocalypse" which was just a Stunner.

 

Eddie Guerrero using "El Paso Del Muerte" in 2001 right before he got canned. It was some kind of leglock, for whatever reason he stopped using the Frog Splash.

 

Dolph Ziggler using a sleeper when he jumped to Smackdown in 2009.

When Hunter Hearst Helmsley first debuted he used a diamond cutter as a finish

When HBK first split off as a singles wrestler didn't he use a variation of the back drop driver ? I don't think it was ever even given a name .

In Bret Hart's first singles run (around 88/89) he used the piledriver as his finisher.

Shawn's move was the Teardrop suplex.

Jericho's Breakdown was actually a sleeper drop not a full nelson face buster.

 

He was also using an enziguri for a short time as a finisher around 2004...same time as Batista using the clothesline as a finisher.

Billy Gunn was using that sleeper hold slam during one of his failed singles runs.

Jericho's Breakdown was actually a sleeper drop not a full nelson face buster.

 

He was also using an enziguri for a short time as a finisher around 2004...same time as Batista using the clothesline as a finisher.

This would be incorrect. It was most certainly the Full Nelson Facebuster. He beat Rock for the title with it in 2001.

Didn't Sgt. Slaughter use an "atomic noogie" (not sure what he actually called it) for a little while instead of the Cobra Clutch?

I saw the youtube clip and you're right. The Breakdown was the full nelson face buster. I had a memory of Jericho doing a sleeper drop off guys running the ropes but that must have been something else.

Billy Gunn was using that sleeper hold slam during one of his failed singles runs.

I believe that was during his "The One" Billy Gunn time period.

Didn't Sgt. Slaughter use an "atomic noogie" (not sure what he actually called it) for a little while instead of the Cobra Clutch?

 

He used it in the beginning of his WWF heel run before transitioning to the camel clutch. It was probably immortalized by the WWE Wrestlefest arcade game.

I recall Ted Dibiase using the step over toe hold when he started in the WWF & that was a weird one.

Jumbo Tsuruta putting over Misawa's little facelock thing was pretty bizarre, especially given All Japan's aversion to submission finishes. It wasn't long until it was reduced to a basic transition hold.

Jumbo Tsuruta putting over Misawa's little facelock thing was pretty bizarre, especially given All Japan's aversion to submission finishes. It wasn't long until it was reduced to a basic transition hold.

 

Such a terrible looking move to boot.

I recall Ted Dibiase using the step over toe hold when he started in the WWF & that was a weird one.

 

DiBiase used a rash of moves before settling on the Dream. I remember the spinning toe hold, the reverse elbow off the turnbuckle, what would be known later as the Million Dollar Buster (cobra clutch legsweep held into a pin), and possibly the ol' powerslam as well.

 

Adrian Adonis switched to using a modified DDT in 1985 (set up like a vertical suplex but with Adonis dropping straight down--and not like a brainbuster either). When Jake showed up in '86, it was back to Goodnight Irene.

 

Shawn at one point in his heel days (around the time Diesel appeared) switched from the teardrop to a straight piledriver. Eventually Scott Hall told him, "Shawn, the kick's your best fucking move. Just use that."

Did Shawn ever actually use that teardrop suplex? I remember it was his finisher in the video games but I can't remember ever actually seeing him do it. I remember the piledriver finish.

 

Also, Rock using the shoulderbreaker. Yeah.

Did Shawn ever actually use that teardrop suplex?

 

Oh yeah. That's how he beat El Matador at Mania 8. Mr. WrestleMania's first step.

Barry Windham's Jumping DDT during his "Lone Wolf" period. Great move!

Demolition used some weird catapult clothesline move initially. To be fair I can't remember if Darsow was on the team when they used it.

Brian Pillman using a Hangman's Neckbreaker in the WWF because, you know...

 

Scott Steiner using all sorts of weird shit instead of the Steiner Recliner in WWE. I remember the Flatliner, think he used something else too but I can't remember.

 

Hacksaw Jim Duggan's "Old Glory" kneedrop in WCW

 

Did Shawn ever actually use that teardrop suplex?

 

Oh yeah. That's how he beat El Matador at Mania 8. Mr. WrestleMania's first step.

 

 

Nah, Santana picked him up for a slam, Sherri missed her cue, and Shawn's weight took Santana down for the pinfall, making them all look like chumps. Teardrop suplex would've been much better.

I saw the youtube clip and you're right. The Breakdown was the full nelson face buster. I had a memory of Jericho doing a sleeper drop off guys running the ropes but that must have been something else.

He called it the Flashback. Started using it after he dropped the Breakdown.