100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
71. Scott Steiner | Steiner Screwdriver
Oddly a better fit for the version of the man that used it less, the scream-inducing brutality of the Steiner Screwdriver belonged in the body of a Big Poppa Pump hoss fight than Steiner Brothers tag matches.
That’s not to say Rick and Scott didn’t know their way around absolutely destroying people, but the bright gear, mullets and occasional smiles ever-so-slightly obscured the violence ahead. ‘The Big Bad Booty Daddy’ delighted in it. And he probably delights in watching clips of the Screwdriver to this very day.
A portmanteau of a move, it is a vertical suplex that ends in a jumping tombstone, but if that simplified explanation isn’t horrifying enough, imagine actually being trapped in it. You’re upside down with only the merciless face of one of the industry’s scariest wrestlers looking back at you, and when you are brought back down to earth, it’s with maximum velocity on your head and neck.
It belongs in a different time as much as it would fit as a finisher in the present day, but could anybody sell owning such a death blow quite like somebody who had no problem going in for the kill?