I always thought the Skull Crushing Finale looked really weak, not living up to its name in the slightest.
Apparently, in Japan, some guy got it into his head he’d be a major star if he legit broke Andre’s leg. So, Andre hit him with a Skull Crushing Finale. Put him in a coma.
This story is from Heenan’s book. Haven’t heard it anywhere else.
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I always thought the Skull Crushing Finale looked really weak, not living up to its name in the slightest.
Apparently, in Japan, some guy got it into his head he’d be a major star if he legit broke Andre’s leg. So, Andre hit him with a Skull Crushing Finale. Put him in a coma.
This story is from Heenan’s book. Haven’t heard it anywhere else.
This one story gave this finisher I side I never thought was possible. Wow.
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Crow T. Robot Knew what the hell that thing was supposed to be
Apparently, in Japan, some guy got it into his head he’d be a major star if he legit broke Andre’s leg. So, Andre hit him with a Skull Crushing Finale. Put him in a coma.
This story is from Heenan’s book. Haven’t heard it anywhere else.
This one story gave this finisher I side I never thought was possible. Wow.
Assuming it's all true, imagine Andre's size and weight and doing the move legit, yeah, coma is probably your best possible outcome.
Apparently, in Japan, some guy got it into his head he’d be a major star if he legit broke Andre’s leg. So, Andre hit him with a Skull Crushing Finale. Put him in a coma.
This story is from Heenan’s book. Haven’t heard it anywhere else.
This one story gave this finisher I side I never thought was possible. Wow.
On a somewhat related note it reminds me of how I was watching an old episode of NWA World Championship from 1985 on the Network where for the finish of a Midnight Express squash Dennis Condrey used a skull crushing finale and my mind was blown. What's even more crazy about it is I don't remember anyone else using it until Miz started doing it as his finisher in 2009. That's twenty four years. You think in all that time someone would've stole it.
Both of Charlotte's finishers are pretty awful. Natural Selection always looks like a transition move even when she does it well (she usually doesn't) and the Figure 8 is so clunky and awkward to set up it always feels like a massive anticlimax.
The problem with Natural Selection as a finisher is that it's so dependent on who's taking it. It can look killer if sold by the right people (the diving one to Rhea at MITB being a good example, or even the brutal looking one to Ronda at SS 2018), but looks awful if it's not. Peyton's falling-gently-on-a-pillow sell is probably the worst, but it's not the only one.
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This one story gave this finisher I side I never thought was possible. Wow.
On a somewhat related note it reminds me of how I was watching an old episode of NWA World Championship from 1985 on the Network where for the finish of a Midnight Express squash Dennis Condrey used a skull crushing finale and my mind was blown. What's even more crazy about it is I don't remember anyone else using it until Miz started doing it as his finisher in 2009. That's twenty four years. You think in all that time someone would've stole it.
Wasn't Jericho's Breakdown the same move? Or does it not count because he did it so badly. Jeff Jarrett's Stroke was the same idea also but with an even worse set-up.
Then again, no one has bothered to steal Nash's Jacknife since he stopped wrestling (even though I want someone to).
This one story gave this finisher I side I never thought was possible. Wow.
On a somewhat related note it reminds me of how I was watching an old episode of NWA World Championship from 1985 on the Network where for the finish of a Midnight Express squash Dennis Condrey used a skull crushing finale and my mind was blown. What's even more crazy about it is I don't remember anyone else using it until Miz started doing it as his finisher in 2009. That's twenty four years. You think in all that time someone would've stole it.
Now that you mention it, yeah before the Miz used it I don't think I had ever seen that move before. That's wild.
On a somewhat related note it reminds me of how I was watching an old episode of NWA World Championship from 1985 on the Network where for the finish of a Midnight Express squash Dennis Condrey used a skull crushing finale and my mind was blown. What's even more crazy about it is I don't remember anyone else using it until Miz started doing it as his finisher in 2009. That's twenty four years. You think in all that time someone would've stole it.
Wasn't Jericho's Breakdown the same move? Or does it not count because he did it so badly. Jeff Jarrett's Stroke was the same idea also but with an even worse set-up.
Then again, no one has bothered to steal Nash's Jacknife since he stopped wrestling (even though I want someone to).
I thought the Breakdown was a sleeper slam. Now that you mention it though I do kind of remember Jericho doing a SCF. I could be wrong but I think he beat Rock with it when he beat him and Austin in the same night. I think it was one of those short lived finish experiments though that didn't last. Probably because he did it so bad.
Wasn't Jericho's Breakdown the same move? Or does it not count because he did it so badly. Jeff Jarrett's Stroke was the same idea also but with an even worse set-up.
Then again, no one has bothered to steal Nash's Jacknife since he stopped wrestling (even though I want someone to).
I thought the Breakdown was a sleeper slam. Now that you mention it though I do kind of remember Jericho doing a SCF. I could be wrong but I think he beat Rock with it when he beat him and Austin in the same night. I think it was one of those short lived finish experiments though that didn't last. Probably because he did it so bad.
The sleeper-slam was called something else (Flashback? Something like that) but Breakdown was basically the SKF.
I only remember him beating The Rock with it but I assume he probably used it on RAW or something. I wasn't watching much at the time. Another example of The Rock being pretty selfless. Not only losing to Jericho but trying to let him get a new finish over.
This was a botched one and it usually looks like not this at all, right? Something clearly went wrong here but tell me it wasn't his training. They taught how to do a wrestle for six years. If you spend six years doodling the Van Halen logo into your notebook in school you still learn more than whatever the hell leads someone to concoct this.
This was a botched one and it usually looks like not this at all, right? Something clearly went wrong here but tell me it wasn't his training. They taught how to do a wrestle for six years. If you spend six years doodling the Van Halen logo into your notebook in school you still learn more than whatever the hell leads someone to concoct this.
Nope, that's the move, he's been using it since at least 2020.
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This was a botched one and it usually looks like not this at all, right? Something clearly went wrong here but tell me it wasn't his training. They taught how to do a wrestle for six years. If you spend six years doodling the Van Halen logo into your notebook in school you still learn more than whatever the hell leads someone to concoct this.
That's what it looks like on a good day lmao
I took notice of it cause he almost put Angel Garza's whole head thru the mat last week.
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This was a botched one and it usually looks like not this at all, right? Something clearly went wrong here but tell me it wasn't his training. They taught how to do a wrestle for six years. If you spend six years doodling the Van Halen logo into your notebook in school you still learn more than whatever the hell leads someone to concoct this.
That's what it looks like on a good day lmao
I took notice of it cause he almost put Angel Garza's whole head thru the mat last week.
Bill and Ted learned better than this guy did, I'm dying.