10 Wrestlers Who Could No Longer Perform Their Finisher

10. The Undertaker

If you’re a near seven-foot-tall undead monster you need a finishing move that fits your frightful façade. A hurricanrana for example would not befit such an imposing character. That’s why the Tombstone Piledriver worked so well for The Undertaker. But it wasn’t always the chosen finish for The Deadman.

When he first signed with the WWE, weeks before his official debut at the 1990 edition of Survivor Series, Undertaker toyed with the idea of using a very different finisher, one that he fortunately retired way before his Hall of Fame career ever really got going.

The so-called Heat Seeking Missile involved The Undertaker walking the top rope, much like he would do for Old School, and then instead of leaping off and landing a swift painful blow to his opponent’s twisted limbs, he would instead land a rather awkward-looking elbow drop on their lifeless body.

The move looked as bad as it sounds. Who came up with the name Heat Seeking Missile? Did they not get the memo that this character is essentially a zombie? Surely something like Death From Above would have been far more fitting? Anyway, WWE management obviously felt the same way because by the time The Undertaker was taking souls and digging holes on television, he was using the Tombstone.