100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
24. Faarooq | Dominator
Ron ‘Faarooq’ Simmons probably won’t be remembered as a legend of the business.
He was important historically, and a huge inspiration, which is more important than boasting a catalogue of great matches, and he was a very good, intimidating promo before he was reduced to a catchphrase - but he wasn’t a headliner for long.
This isn’t an attempt at a mean-spirited burial, but a ham-fisted way of articulating that, sometimes, a move is so fundamentally awesome that it endures despite an inability to recall quite when it happened.
The Dominator was one such move.
There’s a nasty, scary quality to it. A wrestler doesn’t usually take a move from that position. The disorienting descent is probably more unbearable than the impact, because who knows where you might end up?
Your stomach and flush on the kneecaps, if you’re lucky, but for his part, Faaroow never seemed to care. He executed it with a magnificent disdain, as if his opponent was a rolled-up carpet he was tired of carrying up a flight of stairs.
An aptly named (and quite literal) throw, the Dominator ruled as much as it looked like it must have sucked to take.