100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
23. Mike Awesome | Awesome Bomb To The Floor
Mike Awesome ruled so f*cking much, man.
He was at once a man out of time and a timeless badass. He rocked up to the U.S. wrestling scene, when nu-metal was king, with a mullet. ‘Awesome’ wasn’t even in the vernacular; that word was no longer kewl. He looked at least a decade out of date, and yet, for the most brief and spectacular time, he was the coolest.
A Half-Life-loving metalhead, Awesome’s wrestling psychology was actually closer to Doom. He didn’t crouch and strategise. He ripped and teared until it was done. His gloriously fun matches were non-stop violence, and much like Doomguy, his range of weaponry was awesome.
He relied heavily on the Powerbomb, and used several variations of his Awesome variation of it. Furthering the analogy, his Awesome Bomb to the floor was equivalent to the BFG: a super-devastating thrill to watch him fire off.
Invariably detonated through a table, the Awesome Bomb To The Floor blew up the entire screen with flying shrapnel, and in added, glorious visual effect, the brave, splayed soul who took it would often find their head trapped underneath a guardrail because the force of the move was so seismic.