100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
19. The Undertaker | The Last Ride
Born out of necessity during a WWE piledriver ban that included the Tombstone, the timing of a company rule change couldn’t have suited The Undertaker better.
The Last Ride fit ‘The American Bad Ass’ like a hand in a fingerless leather glove on the handle of a beautiful Titan bike or whatever it was he was into at the time. ‘The Deadman’ had been known not just for a “methodical” pace but for theatricality in how he buried the lost souls that came his way. By 2000, The Undertaker was (paraphrasing one of his future entrance themes), a bad ass kicking assholes’ asses. And The Last Ride planted assholes’ asses into canvases with the most force WWE had ever seen.
An elevated powerbomb, the move saw hapless victims dropped from heigher than usual thanks to a pre-ride wedgie ‘Booger Red’ served them before they hit the deck. It looked incredible, and after a decade of destruction, provided his former finisher with a welcome rest before restrictions on it were eventually lifted.