100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
91. Sami Zayn | Suicide Dive Tornado DDT
Sami Zayn is universally adored - even those who lean against WWE admire how he manages to be so authentic in that promotion - and yet, somehow underrated.
A believable, principled babyface with an all-timer of a fire-up spot, Zayn epitomised every value of the role without it ever feeling like a checklist. He was born to play a wrestling hero. He has the substance, the emotional connection, the ability to manipulate huge arenas into thinking he’s half-dead - which has enabled him to get even more over well into his physical decline - and he once had the moves.
As El Generico (if you believe that old rumour), Zayn invented two moves that appear on this list, both of which were message board sensations. The first is the suicide dive tornado DDT.
Zayn was and is very intelligent. The move was stunningly creative, just a mind-blowing thing to watch and to have been conceived, but it wasn’t just an outrageous combo: it was launched from such an unusual position that, in the fiction, it was tremendously difficult to counter.