10 Iconic Wrestling Finishing Moves You Didn't Know Were Stolen

10. The Frog Splash

You could spend hours debating whether Eddie Guerrero or Rob Van Dam made the Frog Splash look more impactful and gravity defying. And that would actually be a pretty productive way to spend those hours. Consider doing that sometime.

But before you do, we should talk about the fact that despite being synonymous with that move, neither Guerrero or RVD actually innovated it.

That was actually Art Barr, an incredibly underrated performer who is unfortunately best remembered stateside for his character The Juicer, a blatant - and poorly constructed - ripoff of Beetlejuice.

Barr came up with the move sometime in the late '80s, presumably while lamenting the fact that nearly every high-flying wrestler's top rope move was either an elbow drop or a leg drop. Rather than follow in their footsteps, he decided he would wield his chest cavity as a weapon, but only after quickly condensing and then unfurling his body like an accordion.

It was named when Barr's training partner 2 Cold Scorpio mentioned that Barr looked like a frog whilst in mid-air, probably as a rib. Barr went with it, and the rest is history.

Guerrerro - Barr's tag-team partner in AAA - adopted the move in tribute to his friend Barr, who died just 17 days after wowing the world at When Worlds Collide in 1994.