100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
34. MJF | Headlock Takeover
MJF is too talented. He can do every move and, because his skin is almost translucent, he’s sometimes too keen to show them off. He can work Meltzer bait bangers to a ludicrously high standard - but MJF is better when he wrestles like MJF.
His use of the headlock takeover is marvellous.
It’s a lovely, timeless, slick move that should never have gone away, sure, but it’s the context with which MJF uses it that makes it mean something. It underscores that the MJF character, at his core, is full of it. He claims he’s a classic wrestler skilled in the pure art of it, and is in fact so technically astute that he can beat you with the basic throws that everybody knows. He’s simply that good at them. He doesn’t need any reckless bombs imported from New Japan.
He’s lying. He cheats before he executes the headlock takeover, which is little more than an empty brag from a desperate man hollow on the inside.
Everything in wrestling is about effective promotion, and that principle applies to the actual moves.