100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
92. Rey Fénix | Rope Walk Kick
Fénix’s rope “walk” is a beautifully impossible move.
It was a wondrous sight to watch the Undertaker walk menacingly across the top rope; seeing Fénix run across the damn thing was legitimately mind-blowing. An extraordinary feat of speed, balance and agility, the rope-run was a literal high wire act, but somehow even more impressive. He didn’t put one foot precariously in front of the other. He ran - sprinted! - across the top rope. The term “video game wrestling” is often used in the pejorative sense, but the description is apt here. Fénix is capable of executing a manoeuvre that appears to defy all known laws of physics.
The resulting kick was hardly the most deadly strike in wrestling history, or anything, but it wasn’t a finish, at least. And, moreover, if you want to be pedantic about it, the move makes a bit of sense because how can you possibly defend yourself against it?
If you’re a wrestler, caught near the ropes, you can’t blink much less counter the move.