10 Worst Finishers In WWE Today
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You know what's strange about the fair "Finishers are dead because everybody kicks out of them" take?
The vast majority of finishers are awesome, and they're over. It barely matters how unprotected most of them are, or how many times they have been cannibalised; locked in the heat of a blood-pumping pro wrestling match, you forget.
Randy Orton could - and often does! - lazily amble through a match on SmackDown tonight, wrestled in his customary low gear, and still generate the biggest pop on the show after snatching some hapless f*cker out of midair and dropping them square on the nose. It's such a great character finisher, too, because it is as if he he jolts out of the long grass, like a viper - or creeps on some poor staffer backstage to cruelly run their day with the famous hand shake out of nowhere.
Kenny Omega's über-protected One-Winged Angel is one of few moves to justify the convoluted set-up; he works frantically for it because he knows it is as effective as a tsar cannon. Ember Moon's Eclipse somehow hasn't resulted in an actual decapitation; Finn Bálor does well to avoid both caving chests in and scraping torso skin off with his Coup de grâce; Daniel Bryan, with his LeBell Lock, applies pressure to every square inch of your f*cking head.
So yes - the finisher remains in incredible health, all things considered - and these men and women therefore have no excuse...
10. The Rear View
It's difficult to appraise the following move without going Full Meltzer, and stumbling into the lip-smacking maw of social media outrage.
But, see we're doing it already, since the move itself is deployed because of Naomi's - let's just refer to it as a physical advantage, and even that probably "isn't on" - it's difficult not to. The move is also called the 'Rear View'. This is entrapment. To even describe the psychology behind the manoeuvre is an invitation to cancellation. Here goes. Naomi has a...
This is difficult.
To even hesitate draws a comparison to anti-PC advocate Jerry Lawler. You can't say anything these days. You can't even say 'You can't say anything these days'.
Naomi has...
...a finishing move that is too slapstick comedy to ever be taken seriously if, for example, she was to headline WrestleMania.
She hits people in the face with her arse. It requires some feat of athleticism to pull off - this is called 'Walking Back', so you can't do this either - but yeah.
It's a bit daft sorry.