Finishers that shouldn't make sense.

[Shai]

For example JBL and the Clothesline from Hell. When anyone else does it it's a normal mid match move. When JBL does it he legitimately looks like he just knocked someone out cold with it.

[No Longer a Produceman]

Sept 20, 2016 18:35:38 GMT -5 Shai said:

For example JBL and the Clothesline from Hell. When anyone else does it it's a normal mid match move. When JBL does it he legitimately looks like he just knocked someone out cold with it.

Same with Jake Roberts and the DDT. Any other schlub and it's a transition move. Jake hits it and his opponent is dead.

[billyvg]

Powerbombs. They look great, but they're so overused that they're just used as filler moves in matches now, and when I see someone use it as a finisher it just doesn't feel the same. 

[keezy]

HBK's super kick being stronger than Goldberg's.

[Deleted]

The Big Ending. Big E's shoulder is protecting you from slamming the mat with full impact. Hell, Mark Henry beat Ryback once by basically making him execute the move.

[RIHT]

The Unprettier. Imagine trying to fight someone in real life with that, hypothetically speaking.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

The Overdrive - it looks like a guaranteed way to kill your knee while doing little damage to your opponent.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

The Attitude Adjustment. Most guys take harder bumps during the course of the match.

Del Rio's tree of woe corner stomp. Because if the angle you're hitting it at you're not doing any damage. You're better off just doing it while they're on the ground.

[Mr T L Wolf]

The Spanish Fly.

[cageking666]

Sept 20, 2016 18:35:38 GMT -5 Shai said:

For example JBL and the Clothesline from Hell. When anyone else does it it's a normal mid match move. When JBL does it he legitimately looks like he just knocked someone out cold with it.

See that I can believe, because I can buy JBL as a brawler, and a practicer of knocking someone the f*** out

Faarooq on the other hand, that dominator was less of a finisher when dude could kill with the spinebuster

[BorneAgain]

Jeff Hardy's swanton looked beautiful, but the guy rarely seemed to get his opponent with full impact. In terms of actual landings, a plain flipping senton would have hit harder.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Whatever the hell Byron Saxtons Finisher was

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Starship Pain. Even on the 5% of times it actually hit it didn't look even remotely like something that would keep a skinny pre-teen kid down for a three count.

[sarkerpolseng]

End of Days. Corbin is essentially taking a Super Rock Bottom.

[häšhtå.gdālėÿ]

Sept 20, 2016 18:51:56 GMT -5 @rrnew said:

The Big Ending. Big E's shoulder is protecting you from slamming the mat with full impact. Hell, Mark Henry beat Ryback once by basically making him execute the move.

I always imagined that as kind of a sternum-breaker with his shoulder bone being driven up into the opponents chest.

[ASYLUMHAUSEN]

It all comes down to psychology to me.

I feel like Heyman had a GREAT breakdown of this kind of thing on one of his Austin podcast appearances. He used an example Mark Henry, a bear hug (I think it was a bear hug anyway), and HOW to get that over as the most devastating thing ever.

[Captain & Diet]

Sept 20, 2016 18:39:13 GMT -5 No Longer a Produceman said:

Sept 20, 2016 18:35:38 GMT -5 Shai said:

For example JBL and the Clothesline from Hell. When anyone else does it it's a normal mid match move. When JBL does it he legitimately looks like he just knocked someone out cold with it.

Same with Jake Roberts and the DDT. Any other schlub and it's a transition move. Jake hits it and his opponent is dead.

There was a time the DDT and the Lariat were killer finishing moves. However we're in the spot monkey era so nothing is special anymore.

[Deleted]

Sept 20, 2016 22:19:24 GMT -5 häšhtå.gdālėÿ said:

Sept 20, 2016 18:51:56 GMT -5 @rrnew said:

The Big Ending. Big E's shoulder is protecting you from slamming the mat with full impact. Hell, Mark Henry beat Ryback once by basically making him execute the move.

I always imagined that as kind of a sternum-breaker with his shoulder bone being driven up into the opponents chest.

But he falls backward though, so the top of his shoulder is facing away from the opponents sternum when he drops.

[AFN: Judge Shred]

Sept 20, 2016 18:50:31 GMT -5 keezy said:

HBK's super kick being stronger than Goldberg's.

I wonder what Bret Hart thinks about this.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

In defence of the Clothesline from Hell, it's a near-300lb man running at full speed, swinging his arm at you like a club as hard as he possibly can.

A regular clothesline is usually from a stationary position, or from a short run up.