100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
100 moves. 1 million pops.
Wrestling isn’t about moves, but rather the spaces between.
A move is worthless if there is no emotional weight behind the execution. This becomes more clear, more glaring, by the day: there is a baseline competency in pro wrestling in 2025 that is utterly bland. There are no true stinkers. Something really bad is so rare that it becomes infamous instantly.
The moves in these matches are often executed well. Here’s an example, which while harsh is not untrue. Pete Dunne was a great wrestler when he worked in front of crowds who were inclined to appreciate his marvellous technical ability. Now, in front of the WWE audience that doesn’t necessarily care about that sort of thing, little that he does actually registers or matters.
Finn Bálor was one of the most influential wrestlers ever, and a super-worker in his prime, but now?
Everything he does looks good, but feels empty. He’s a fun, mischievous heel, and the Judgment Day shenanigans get over in the closing stretch of his TV matches, but his singles matches don’t linger long in the memory. He never wrestles in a true cauldron of an atmosphere. Somewhere along the way, he lost the ability to make the fans live and die with him. Did he stop thinking deeply about his craft when was compensated heavily for it?
The best moves boast an in-character logic, paying off a careful build.
The best moves are all in the “when” they are executed…
This article is a collaboration between Michael Sidgwick, Jamie Kennedy and Michael Hamflett.