What non-wwe star has the most pilfered moveset?

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As in, people in the WWE borrow heavily from his/her moveset?


Granted, he's in NXT, now, but KENTA has to be up there. Punk used the GTS, DB used the knee...

[________ has left the building]

Nova. As soon as he did a new move in ECW, 5 people in wrestling start using it and claiming they invented that.

[Reflecto]

Jan 2, 2016 14:47:24 GMT -5 @hedm2005 said:

As in, people in the WWE borrow heavily from his/her moveset?


Granted, he's in NXT, now, but KENTA has to be up there. Punk used the GTS, DB used the knee...

If you're counting KENTA in NXT, then you have to count Chris Jericho as a part-timer. Jericho invented everything done, including Nova, KENTA, and Canada.

[Mozenrath]

While I doubt it's him, and obviously he'd been in WWE, but I still love the story of Lance Storm needing a finisher when coming to WCW, since in ECW, he typically just used opponents' finishers on them such as Jerry Lynn's cradle piledriver. So, as Storm tells it:

I think I was the first guy to do the rolling half crab but I got the idea after seeing Terry Taylor do it into a full Boston crab. I saw him do it once and never saw him do it again, so I stole it. After a year or so I realized it was a lot smoother rolling into the half crab so I altered it. Years later Terry even asked me where I came up with the idea because he thought it looked cool. I told him I stole it from him, but he did not recall using it before.

I imagine Kenta Kobashi gets moves stolen from him a lot, given both Foley and Buff Bagwell stole his DDT.

[sdjonesbackhole]

Every Indy worker from the early 2000s seems to have ripped of KENTA. Also the chop/ elbow exchanges are lame when you can tell they are just imitating a 90s All Japan match they saw on tape. Most Indy wrestlers think they are the only person who ever saw a Misawa match.

[theshockmaster]

Great Muta?

[paperbackhero]

Jan 2, 2016 20:42:46 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

While I doubt it's him, and obviously he'd been in WWE, but I still love the story of Lance Storm needing a finisher when coming to WCW, since in ECW, he typically just used opponents' finishers on them such as Jerry Lynn's cradle piledriver. So, as Storm tells it:

I think I was the first guy to do the rolling half crab but I got the idea after seeing Terry Taylor do it into a full Boston crab. I saw him do it once and never saw him do it again, so I stole it. After a year or so I realized it was a lot smoother rolling into the half crab so I altered it. Years later Terry even asked me where I came up with the idea because he thought it looked cool. I told him I stole it from him, but he did not recall using it before.

I imagine Kenta Kobashi gets moves stolen from him a lot, given both Foley and Buff Bagwell stole his DDT.

Wasnt the DDT that Foley and Bagwell used stolen from Dusty Rhodes or Adonis?

[Mozenrath]

Jan 3, 2016 20:45:09 GMT -5 paperbackhero said:

Jan 2, 2016 20:42:46 GMT -5 Mozenrath said:

While I doubt it's him, and obviously he'd been in WWE, but I still love the story of Lance Storm needing a finisher when coming to WCW, since in ECW, he typically just used opponents' finishers on them such as Jerry Lynn's cradle piledriver. So, as Storm tells it:
I imagine Kenta Kobashi gets moves stolen from him a lot, given both Foley and Buff Bagwell stole his DDT.

Wasnt the DDT that Foley and Bagwell used stolen from Dusty Rhodes or Adonis?

I can't speak for Bagwell, but Mick did specifically say he "shamelessly" stole it from Kenta Kobashi, though he may have taken it from one of those two, himself.

[paperbackhero]

Most likely some Joshi star from the 80's...tons of cool powerbomb, piledriver, and ddt innovations that most dudes stole from.

[MrElijah]

2 Cold Scorpio. Maybe not as many as Joshi(Holy shit, half stuff guys use came from them. Vertabreaker anyone?), but look at the stuff Cold did and look how much it influence high flyers.

[TGM]

Jan 2, 2016 15:11:07 GMT -5 ________ has left the building said:

Nova. As soon as he did a new move in ECW, 5 people in wrestling start using it and claiming they invented that.

Always remember hearing this, are there any examples? I only really remember him using the Flatliner / Downward Spiral.