Late additions to move sets

[Soultastic]

Mar 24, 2024 12:14:25 GMT -5 mcstoklasa said:

I mean as in a wrestlers career is well underway, they're well established and they add new moves later on.


Cena did a horrible springboard stunner, the taka driver and a terrible dropkick. I still like him though.

Taker with the hells gate and various others.

Stone Cold in 2000-2002 with the snap spine buster and he also started doing a lot of flair style chops by late 2001 which he never used to.

Any favourites worth mentioning?

Tbh part of Cena's charm is that he would just do shit lmao. I'm surprised he never went "Imma do a shining wizard now"

On topic, Adam Copeland's elevated triangle (which luckily stopped) and crossface. Also Bryan Danielson's Busaiku Knee, relatively speaking.

[saneiac]

Kevin Owens didn't start using the stunner until they decided to make him Stone Cold Lite in 2019.

The Sling Blade has been added by a ton of people. It was Finn Balor's move, but sometime in the past few years it became standard for everybody. Rollins especially made it a regular move he uses in every match, but also Priest, Owens, Zayn, Theory, and probably others.

[Cranjis McBasketball]

Mar 24, 2024 22:47:12 GMT -5 El Pollo Guerrera said:

Tito Santana was inactive for a few months in 1991, when he came back as El Matador he had a new finisher, the El Paso Del Muetre (a flying forearm to the back of the head of a hunched over opponent).

That was Extra Hot Pace Picante!

[wildojinx]

The recent Dark Side of the Ring on Brutus Beefcake reminded me that he started using the stunner when he became the Disciple in 1998. Of course, he rarely won any matches with it.

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Mar 26, 2024 18:17:43 GMT -5 Soultastic said:

Mar 24, 2024 12:14:25 GMT -5 mcstoklasa said:

I mean as in a wrestlers career is well underway, they're well established and they add new moves later on.


Cena did a horrible springboard stunner, the taka driver and a terrible dropkick. I still like him though.

Taker with the hells gate and various others.

Stone Cold in 2000-2002 with the snap spine buster and he also started doing a lot of flair style chops by late 2001 which he never used to.

Any favourites worth mentioning?

Tbh part of Cena's charm is that he would just do shit lmao. I'm surprised he never went "Imma do a shining wizard now"

On topic, Adam Copeland's elevated triangle (which luckily stopped) and crossface. Also Bryan Danielson's Busaiku Knee, relatively speaking.

I completely forgot about Edge using an arm triangle. Performance Centre WWE was a strange time.

[A Platypus Rave]

Mar 24, 2024 12:36:29 GMT -5 FinalGwen said:

Jericho had the tendency to add new finishing moves as his career progressed, first with the Codebreaker then the Judas Effect.

before that he also had the Breakdown, and running Enziguri and for a while the Lionsault was promoted from signature to finisher.

[A Platypus Rave]

Mar 24, 2024 14:04:56 GMT -5 Can you afford to pay me, Gah said:

CM Punk when he was going from new nexus to Best in the World Punk. Was when I recall starting to do the Macho man Elbow.

CM Punk started doing it after Macho Man died which was when he was part of the New Nexus... though I am pretty sure I saw a few indy matches where he did an elbow drop but it was rarely one of his go to moves cause he was so bad at it.

[Citizen Snips Has Left]

Sgt Slaughter using the Death Noogie and camel clutch during his Iraqi phase.

Haku didn’t start using the Tongan Death Grip until he went to WCW.

[4real]

Mar 26, 2024 18:17:43 GMT -5 Soultastic said:

Mar 24, 2024 12:14:25 GMT -5 mcstoklasa said:

I mean as in a wrestlers career is well underway, they're well established and they add new moves later on.


Cena did a horrible springboard stunner, the taka driver and a terrible dropkick. I still like him though.

Taker with the hells gate and various others.

Stone Cold in 2000-2002 with the snap spine buster and he also started doing a lot of flair style chops by late 2001 which he never used to.

Any favourites worth mentioning?

Tbh part of Cena's charm is that he would just do shit lmao. I'm surprised he never went "Imma do a shining wizard now"

On topic, Adam Copeland's elevated triangle (which luckily stopped) and crossface. Also Bryan Danielson's Busaiku Knee, relatively speaking.

Edge also started using a submission move in the mid 00’s. The Edgeucator I wanna say it was called? Cool move but he rarely used it.

[Dang!]

Everyone and their sister started adding the cross face to their move set a few months after Benoit did what he did. I assume the primary goal was to disassociate the move from him, maybe it was shock value.

[A Platypus Rave]

Mar 28, 2024 1:43:01 GMT -5 4real said:

Mar 26, 2024 18:17:43 GMT -5 Soultastic said:

Tbh part of Cena's charm is that he would just do shit lmao. I'm surprised he never went "Imma do a shining wizard now"

On topic, Adam Copeland's elevated triangle (which luckily stopped) and crossface. Also Bryan Danielson's Busaiku Knee, relatively speaking.

Edge also started using a submission move in the mid 00’s. The Edgeucator I wanna say it was called? Cool move but he rarely used it.

it was a like elevated Figure Four and yes Edgeucator...

it's funny that all of his moves that he named after himself... his forever finisher ended up the not even renamed "Spear" >_>

[Ozman]

Brock Lesnar didn’t start using the kimura in pro wrestling until after he came back from UFC to WWE in 2012.

[Soultastic]

Mar 28, 2024 1:43:01 GMT -5 4real said:

Mar 26, 2024 18:17:43 GMT -5 Soultastic said:

Tbh part of Cena's charm is that he would just do shit lmao. I'm surprised he never went "Imma do a shining wizard now"

On topic, Adam Copeland's elevated triangle (which luckily stopped) and crossface. Also Bryan Danielson's Busaiku Knee, relatively speaking.

Edge also started using a submission move in the mid 00’s. The Edgeucator I wanna say it was called? Cool move but he rarely used it.

He brought it back for his last babyface run before his first retirement. I wish he'd still use it every now and then.

[J. Hova]

I don't recall Eddie using the Lasso from El Paso until he was well into his WWE run.

[Soultastic]

Mar 28, 2024 2:52:58 GMT -5 A Platypus Rave said:

Mar 28, 2024 1:43:01 GMT -5 4real said:

Edge also started using a submission move in the mid 00’s. The Edgeucator I wanna say it was called? Cool move but he rarely used it.

it was a like elevated Figure Four and yes Edgeucator...

it's funny that all of his moves that he named after himself... his forever finisher ended up the not even renamed "Spear" >_>

Tbf a spear has a bladed tip, therefor it already implies an edge.

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Adam Copeland/Edge added the "Grindhouse" submission when he went to AEW, which is a sort of key lock crossface

[theironyuppie]

Charlotte added the front flip lariat and (temporarily) the Andrade double moonsault.

[Allie Kitsune]

Matt Hardy with the Butterfly Facelock

Cena's stupid-ass "I filmed a movie in China and now I know Kung Fu" Lightning Fist

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

Finding out that Muta started using the Shining Wizard in like 2001 blew my mind, tbh. Especially when you consider how many other people started doing it not long after that. 

[rainandlava]

I remember during Batista's feud with Cena in 2010, Batista began using a submission finisher called the Batista Bite (Scissored Armbar/Crossface Combination or the Nagata Lock III) that looked vicious.

In addition, Bryan Danielson recently began using a variant of the aformentioned move using the Omoplata Crossface variation as well.