10 Wrestlers Banned From Using THEIR OWN Moves

10. Andrade El Idolo

Andrade's spinning back elbow is a much-missed weapon from his arsenal; a perfectly-timed jaw-wobbler of a move, it is nearly up there with Kenny Omega's V-Trigger as the strike most likely to cause a concussion. It's invariably executed so safely that it only appears that way.

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Of course, it isn't executed anymore: as Andrade teased on Twitter, he's no longer allowed to use it. It is easy to both infer and understand why.

Chris Jericho is one of AEW's top stars, and smashed his difficult, unprecedented task of launching the promotion as a television mainstay. In yet another extraordinary career reinvention, he has slimmed down and somehow rediscovered in 2008/9 form - but initially, he was playing the bulked-up heel bully. As part of the transition to top star heavyweight, he took on a new finisher, the Judas Effect.

He's protected the f*ck out of it, too; only Jon Moxley has kicked out of it in more than three years. He's done such a tremendous job with it that, despite not looking great, it is taken seriously as a guaranteed match-winner.

Andrade's is better, but Jericho's is more over, he was in AEW first, and he's a far bigger star.

That is how it works.

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