10 Wrestlers Who Changed Their Finisher When They Got Old

10. Scott Steiner

You just can't count the TNA ones from the top rope.

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Mike Tenay called it a Frankensteiner, he wanted so much to sell it as one. We all called it a Frankensteiner, we wanted so much to believe that the Scotty of old was lingering below the surface of all those biceps. The thrill was real, but the move, sadly was not.

'Big Poppa Pump' was well north of forty and had muscles on top of his muscles during his various jaunts through the Impact Zone, and propping a guy on the top rope to take a seated hurricanrana was cool and dangerous. But it wasn't the Frankensteiner.

A reinvention as the 'Big Bad Booty Daddy' was the first farewell to the move, but time's arrow marching forward did the rest. The updated version was a total popper for the live crowds and a treat that put a match over as more than it was. The original, in all its youthful glory, was a violent spring-loaded weapon

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