10 Wrestlers With Finishing Moves That Were Illegal

10. Taz - Tazmission

As a certain Human Suplex Machine would unfortunately find out the hard way upon making his Madison Square Garden-shaking debut at the 2000 Royal Rumble, WWE is very much its own animal - and with this rather distinct environment sometimes come with it a bizarre reframing of what you'd always accepted as the norm.

Unbeknown to the ECW wrecking machine, his tried and tested Kata ha jime, a.k.a The Tazmission, would be almost instantly branded as an illegal choke by Jerry Lawler on commentary on the night, keeping in line with the company's rule against choke holds within a squared-circle. And while Jim Ross would do his utmost to justify its existence by claiming it to be little more than a "version of a sleeper hold", Taz still felt understandably deceived about his trademark finisher being branded as illegal out of the gates.

As the business as a whole has evolved alongside the growing popularity of MMA, however, the attitude towards this sort of choke hold within WWE has thankfully been relaxed somewhat, with the likes of Samoa Joe and Shayna Baszler regularly cinching in the Coquina and Kirifuda Clutch, respectively, on main roster television in recent times.