10 Times A Wrestler Did A Move Better Than The Innovator

10. The Liger Bomb

To set the stall out briefly: it isn't sacrilegious or anything daft to suggest that a wrestling move can be improved upon after it was innovated.

It's a good thing. You ideally want the thing you like to get better. It would be pointless, even depressing, if this didn't happen. If Eddie Van Halen hadn't played the guitar better technically than his predecessors, music would be unrecognisable today. Wrestling nostalgia is particularly affecting - many have faded into irrelevance by refusing to let go of how it used to be - so it's understandable that some might balk at the idea that a wrestler as respected and influential as Jushin 'Thunder' Liger pioneered a move that was subsequently bettered.

But he did. Just look at PAC's Liger Bomb.

The original was superb for its day, but PAC's is something else. The unreal quality of his version is informed by his supernatural body control. He looks like he's staving some poor f*cker's head in with a gruesome snap loaded with velocity, and is such a crisp, incredible super-athlete that he can trap the arms with a successful pin attempt in one graceful, seamless motion.