100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
89. GUNTHER | Chop
The chop is over-used to the point of virtual meaninglessness because everybody does it.
Well, it’s not meaningless exactly - done well, it always generates a pop - but the move adds to the pervasive, homogenised style that has heavily informed the apathy that surrounds wrestling beyond WWE in 2025.
And, what’s worse, very few wrestlers use it to the same, awesome effect as GUNTHER. It’s toned-down from the WALTER days, since WALTER used to cause such internal bleeding that he would literally blacken the chest of his opponents, but he too has fine-tuned the art of the “when”. He’ll spam chops early, but he’ll slowly ratchet up the power. The flat-back from his harder strikes is an awesome sight that spikes the drama of his best matches.
The sound he makes is revolting, a gunshot blast, and his hardest blows are so frightening that the crowd reaction can barely be described as a pop. It’s more a collective, loud wince - the sound of an entire building feeling the pain vicariously.
It’s perfect wrestling; simultaneously one of the last moves you’d wish to take, and a move that doesn’t cause lasting, real damage.