Wrestling Holds/Finishers you just don’t see anymore
 

Apologies if this has been done recently.

While writing my first post and reminiscing about all those Old-School wrestlers, I started thinking about Killer Karl Kox.

KKK was my favourite heel as a kid and his “devastating” finisher was the Brain Buster.

For those of you who don’t know the BB, picture a vertical suplex but rather than having your opponent fall on his back, he landed on his head.

Invariably, the medics then had to come to the ring and stretcher out his opponent. Next week, his opponent would show up in a neck brace vowing to get revenge once they got better and selling the “injury” (of course, if Cena had've been around in those days he would've got straight up).:roll:

I remember at the live shows the very audible gasps from the crowd :eek: as KKK lifted his opponent into the air and suspended him there before delivering the final blow. Of all the heels, I reckon KKK was the most hated of his time simply because of his signature move.

Was it dangerous? No doubt...if performed by amateurs. But I don’t ever recall a mishap or real injury resulting from KKK performing this move.

There aren’t that many moves that involve dropping your opponent directly on his head. Tombstone (where most of the time, you can see the head miss the mat by miles) and to some degree the DDT (same) are a couple.

But I haven’t seen the BB since the days of KKK which prompts me to ask what other moves have disappeared.

Eddie, Chavo and Benoit all used to do brainbusters.

Eddie done this move alot. He did it to Rey on the stairs.

The abdominal stretch.

Steiner Screwdrivers.

The mexican surfboard was badass but I haven't seen it in years. The one where the guy is lifted into the air.

:lol: One of the lamest holds ever. Who was it recently that applied it to HBK (I think) while he was sitting on the mat? Was it the master of the rest hold?

Has to be the piledriver.

I liked the brainbuster Kid Kash used

Remember when heel tag teams used to hold each others arm for leverage on the abdominal stretch when the ref wasn't looking? That was golden.

Haven't seen a DVD in WWE for a while...

Plenty of Fireman's Carries, though.

Also, F5. Probably my favorite move of all time. :y:

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The moss covered 3 handled family gredenzul

ARMBAR!

YOu just made this thread to type KKK over and over again didn't you?

JEW HATER!

Personally? I miss the varity of piledrivers the WWE used to have. Now they have...one.

Shattered Dreams. :shifty:

You know, this one may sound a bit stupid...but I miss the Torture Rack. Not it's user, just the move.

The Orange Crush Bomb.

You know, it never entered my mind. The Klan is non-existent over here.

Apologies to any African-American or Jewish (450) members who may have been offended.

As for being a "Jew Hater", that's not even worthy of a rebuttal. There are very few people I actually hate. I dislike a hell of a lot of people though.

He;s fucking with you.

Crippler Crossface; nobody can see it. WWE censors out everything with Chris Benoit in it.

Bada psh!

....I hate you Funky! I HATE YOU SO MUCH!

Nah, I'm kidding ya. I loves me the blacks! Especially if they're Canadian.

I thought HBK used that at Survivor Series.

You never see the Bushwhacker Battering Ram anymore:shifty:

Gee. No one's mentioned THE MOST ELECTRIFYING MOVE IN SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT

Yeah, I know, I'll get back in my box.

Jericho's hurricanrana to a sitting opponent on the top rope

Tazz's style of suplexes

Rey's hurricanrana follow through under the legs for a sit down pin. I like that time that he never used on Orton who he never pinned to win a non existant title

SSP

...and I'll lack the hatch...

Jericho Spike. I would love to see him bust that sucker out again. (his top rope frankenstiener with the opponent standing on the top rope.)

:rofl: Or how Flair will hold onto the ropes for leverage while applying the figure-four, or how any heel will at one point put his feet on the ropes for added leverage while pinning his opponent :wtf:

Flash paper in the face.

I have in my hands a hammer of Ban...

DANGEROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUS

Pretty much 97% of the moves on Create-A-Wrestler mode in any of the Smackdown games.

Perfect-plex/fisherman suplex pin. Still my favorite finisher ever.

Robert Roode uses it as his finisher in TNA.

Another reason why Robert Roode is the goods

Doesn't Val Venis also use it as one of his finishers? Of course, since he never wins you never get to see it.

Piledrivers
Forceful powerbombs
DDT's aren't really done well or as finishers anymore
You never see anybody give up to a figure 4 anymore.
You don't see tag teams with team finishers as much nowadays. (or if you do they suck).
There's really a lot of shitty finishers.

True. And when was the last time anyone fell to the Sleeper Hold?

I believe it was during HHH and the Rock's Iron Man match, HHH won a fall with it (I think).

Texas Cloverleaf.
Shooting Star Press (Unless London wants to get fired.)
I really miss Tajiri and a good shot in the head with one of his kicks.

Liontamer
Screwdriver
Mexican Surfboard
Texas Cloverleaf
F-5
Old Pedigree (when trips didn't release the arms)
Teardrop Suplex
Death Valley Driver
Reverse Death Valley Driver (like Chaz did, it was crazy)
Testdrive
Rocker Drooper
The Mosh Pit

Full nelson slam. I loved it when Test did it. That may have been the best thing Test has ever done. Like, seriously, he could save an orphan from a well and that full nelson slam will still be the best thing he has ever done. He could punch my boss in the dick and yet somehow that full nelson slam will still be the greatest thing he has ever done. Test could freaking cure cancer and that full nelson slam would still top it!

The Burning Hammer?

Armbar...

Whippersnapper
Stun Gun
Nash's elusive 1080 Shooting Star Splash

Oh, duh...

But actually, it was a 2250, after breaking his neck, tearing his quads and having his hand bitten off by a bear.

HHH beat Jeff Hardy with a sleeper years ago.

Mickie James' ass in black panties?

Ok, now let's have someone use it in a setting where more than six people actually see it.

Stump Puller.
Vertebreaker.

I hear Hall was gonna try to top it at Turning Point, but then realized that Nash is a tough guy to show up.

With JR calling the Walls the Liontamer on RAW, I have hope that it won't be the shitty Boston Crab version.

But it was probably just another JR fuck up, though this time it's what everyone wants.

And yet, he called the Lionsault a Springboard Moonsault, so I don't even know anymore...

Someone in the WWE needs to do the IR (Italian Revolution) It's basically a fisherman suplex, but with their one arm crossed in front of their neck and held, and their other arm between their legs and held. So basically a slick looking fishermen suplex with both arms trapped.

They've been calling the Walls the Liontamer for awhile now.

"For a while" as in three weeks?

Let's just all agree that JR is a senile piece of shit. Which he is. Additionally, he is stupid.

Now I know your lying, Nash's hair is never out of place. Even if it was sticking straight up - that's exactly how it was meant to be.

Also, let it be known that when Brock did the F5 hopping on one leg because he was selling the damage Angle had done to the other, I fell more in love with him as a performer and I hadn't to that point thought such a thing was possible.

"For a while" as in a while before he left for a while. A while.

A good, clean, bridging German Suplex pin.

Anaconda Vice (I Wish Punk would pull it out sometimes)

When the Rock used to do that float-over DDT. That shit kicked ass.

Or when DDP did that Front Face Pancake or whatever. It looked like he was going to do a piledriver, but went forward.

DDP was over as hell back in the day. :y:

And I have never, ever understood it.

The Slingshot Suplex by the great Tully Blanchard