RKO or STONE COLD STUNNER

[road doggy dogg]

AGAINST MY BETTER JUDGMENT (Paladin tier 2 #whattup #BlackwingLair) I am curious to parse the thoughts of the ever-wondrous minds of the TPWWforums.com Wrestling Forum's finest to see where they stand on this crucial question. So curious I am going VINTAGE MODE avec font modes.

Right now IN THIS VERY RING (of life) we are witnessing the RKO at its apex (predator) of popularity. It has become a meme in of itself, being used in Vines (#ToutSucks) and even witnessed by futbol gentlemangs and undoubtedly your social media feeds have been brought to a STANDSTILL by Randy Orton dropping jaws of your usual abundance of BuzzFeed and HuPo links (top 10 gifs of Dolph Ziggler OW OW OW)

That all being said, the Undisputed Champion of the Not-Jericho-First-Ever-#Best Finishing Move is the STONE COLD STUNNER


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BAH GAWD

So flawlessly performed (except when it wasn't) and a big fat MIDDLE FINGER n|m in the face of authority m|n, the Stunner is known worldwide as a devastating maneuver.

However,

The RKO is renowned as being dealt ruthlessly out of GOD DAMN NOWHERE like a goddamn spider monkey on acid. Its versatility is unmatched. Austin's move was way devastating but c'mon:

<marquee scrollamount=10>OUT OF GODDAMN FUCKING NOWHERE
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Youtube doesn't wanna embed, losing some of the LUSTRE of posting this vid but here's a hot link: http://youtu.be/2_W2kjimv8E

some of those are 2 sicc


SO CAST YOUR GODDAMN VOTES, MONGRELS

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*mic drop*

[CSL]

defffffinitely the STUNNER BAH GAWD

[road doggy dogg]

That is what I anticipate the majority to feel as well. I am curious if the recent surge in RKO popularity will have an effect on its perception as a viable finisher in the pantheon of wrasslin' finishers of all time

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>what stunner</font>

[road doggy dogg]

%nwhat stunner

[Poit]

<font color=goldenrod>what stunner</font>

Vinnie Mac Stunner, BAH GAWD

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[Hanso Amore]

I think this thread is supposed to be called the CHART BUSTER or the KANYON CUTTER

[Innovator]

Kick Wham Stunner

[Poit]

Ace Crusher OUTTA NOWHERE

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[slik]

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[Nowhere Man]

Gonna go with everyone's favorite middle-aged yoga instructor:

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[Emperor Smeat]

Stunner.

http://i.imgur.com/v05SiGC.gif

[Poit]

I couldn't tell who that was at first, and then he saluted, and I'm just like "oh, Santino".

[Fox]

Diamond Cutter

[Jura]

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[Jura]

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/webroot/animatedgifs/1011121_o.gif

http://oi61.tinypic.com/2e67v61.jpg

[DrCrawford]

The Stunner and it isn't even close. Boreton's RKO looks like crap. DDP made it good, but even then - Stunner wins.

[JimmyMess]

This is almost silly, the Stunner takes the cake, COME ON BRAH.

[Dark One]

I've got to say Stunner because of the impact and just iconic status of it at this point.

I was really strongly tempted to say RKO, though, just because it can come OUTTA NOWHERE.

[Lock Jaw]

RKO way better to me. Looks more impactfull and comes outta nowhere.

Austin would often stunner people outta nowhere, but it wasn't as out of nowhere as an RKO out of nowhere.

[Hanso Amore]

I was over the stunner after the 19th time Austin showed up and cleared the ring with a dozen stunners and everyone just stood around waiting their turn.

[Crippla]

This could go either way. I'm not voting because it depends on circumstances for me.

[BigDaddyCool]

DIAMOND CUTTER

[Nowhere Man]

Y'know, as infamous as the RKO is for being "OUTTA NOWHERE," so many of those allegedly surprising finishes are either just reversals into a standing position and hitting a normal RKO from there, or the opponent attempting to hit the dreaded Flying Nothing off of the top rope-- you know, where the guy jumps but doesn't move like he's going for a clothesline or a cross-body or anything at all, and dives formlessly right into Randy's waiting arms. It's like back in WCW when guys who never did powerbombs would suddenly attempt to powerbomb Billy Kidman and we were supposed to be surprised when he hit a facebuster.

And again, DDP did it better.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Stunner! Stunner! Bah god! Stone Cold! Stone Cold! Stone Cold! Bah god! THE AUSTIN ERA HAS BEGUN! STONE COLD...STONE COLD...THE RATTLESNAKE RULES AGAIN!

[road doggy dogg]

The only good Stunner reversal was the Sweet Chin Music where he spun HBK around and kicked him in the stomach for the Stunner. So good. But other "reversals" into Stunners pale in comparison to the RKO ones, telegraphed as they may be.

[road doggy dogg]

Y'know, as infamous as the RKO is for being "OUTTA NOWHERE," so many of those allegedly surprising finishes are either just reversals into a standing position and hitting a normal RKO from there, or the opponent attempting to hit the dreaded Flying Nothing off of the top rope-- you know, where the guy jumps but doesn't move like he's going for a clothesline or a cross-body or anything at all, and dives formlessly right into Randy's waiting arms. It's like back in WCW when guys who never did powerbombs would suddenly attempt to powerbomb Billy Kidman and we were supposed to be surprised when he hit a facebuster.

And again, DDP did it better.

That's my main beef with Rey Mysterio.

Notice how no wrestler ever in the history of any match of all time in worldly events gets hung up on the 2nd rope UNLESS they're facing Mysterio? From a kayfabe standpoint it's infuriating to watch his matches because of that for me.

[DAMN iNATOR]

http://stream1.gifsoup.com/view/250498/rko-to-rvd-o.gif

The Bourne “Air Bourne counter to RKO” was already posted, so I went with the old RKO to Rob Van Dam. Dunno about everyone else, but looks fucking badass to me.

[Poit]

That's my main beef with Rey Mysterio.

Notice how no wrestler ever in the history of any match of all time in worldly events gets hung up on the 2nd rope UNLESS they're facing Mysterio? From a kayfabe standpoint it's infuriating to watch his matches because of that for me.

Also, every time Mysterio has a cage match, he realizes partway through the match that the cage walls prevent him from doing the 619. Even though he learned that in every previous cage match.

[DAMN iNATOR]

That's my main beef with Rey Mysterio.

Notice how no wrestler ever in the history of any match of all time in worldly events gets hung up on the 2nd rope UNLESS they're facing Mysterio? From a kayfabe standpoint it's infuriating to watch his matches because of that for me.

What about Orton’s middle rope D.D.T. question mark question mark question mark

[Heyman]

Although Tony Doggy Dogg is a gay homosexual poo eater (LOL), I'm actually inclined to agree with him that the RKO, is infact, better than the Stone Cold Stunner (and if not better, it's atleast cooler).


RKO is awesome since you can hit it out of nowhere and completely blindside someone. It just looks cooler when you blindside someone (i.e. Orton on Jericho in that video).


With a Stunner however, one gets kicked in the abdomen first, but still has a small chance of getting out of it. For instance, The Rock in numerous instances when he fought Austin.


For me - RKO > Stunner.


RKO is my favorite finisher of all-time and I would personally use the RKO if I was a wrestler. Also - I got drunk last Friday and texted some guy a picture of my dick for shits and giggles.

[Savio]

Austin was the better wrestler, Orton has the better move.

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