Thread: You know what we need more of? Stolen finishers.
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Old 05-18-2011, 04:43 PM   #50
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Originally Posted by What Would Kevin Do? View Post
You know what else they need? Special/modified finishers for big matches. WWE needs to take a lesson from puroresu or indy wrestling on this one. Nothing big, nothing used very often, but just something for big matches when the guy kicks out of the "normal" finisher.

Misawa had the Tiger Driver 91, Jun Akiyama had the wrist clutch exploder, CIMA has his redline/wrist clutch Schwien, etc.

For example, I'd love to see a John Cena main event where someone like the Miz kicks out of the AA, so Cena hoists him back up, but instead does a sort of AA into a sit down slam pin combo (he did it a few times in the past.) Just a simple alteration of his finisher that would look more devastating, and would be great for big matches.

Same idea with the leaping tombstone Taker did to HBK, or to a lesser extent, Orton's punt kick.
Also, Cena has the Super FU/AA and Orton has the Super RKO.

I do agree with your post. Also, I'd like to see them move away from finishers being the end all in every match in general. Obviously some matches should end in a finisher, but guys should have four or five signatures that COULD end the match in addition to the big finishers. That's rarely the case. Usually guys have one or two moves that could end the match and the rest are just wear down moves or moves that lead to the finisher.

For example, Orton has the neck/back breaker, the suspended DDT, the RKO and the Punt. All of them should be able to end a match, but it's always the Punt or the RKO.

It'd make things more unpredictable and more exciting. In WWE especially, you can pretty much always tell when a near fall is going to be a near fall and not end the match. If you add in more signatures that do end matches on a regular basis it adds to the matches.
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