100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
10. El Generico | Brainbustaaah!
God, can you imagine being in the building the first time El Generico did the Brainbustaaah!?
Generico was absolutely sensational, so you’re already giddy watching a spectacular, futuristic match unfold. It feels like wrestling is on the cutting edge if you’ve looked hard enough, and you have. You watch Generico catch up with his opponent on the top rope. Your brain is wired to expect a superplex, maybe a hurricanrana. The bouncy indie canvas is about to vibrate for seconds on end, adding to the crazed din inside of some sh*thole of an armory, but then, Generico drops to his feet. You can barely process it, but his opponent’s trapped head has just smashed the top turnbuckle as the rest of his body sprawls against the ropes at some ungodly angle.
It looks for the briefest of moments like you’ve just witnessed an internal decapitation. You’ve just taken in the illicit thrill of a pioneer inventing something awful, something awesome, to get ahead in a new and borderless world in which anything goes because, with no pathway to WWE, and no other big time, your best bet was to go as apesh*t as possible in order to get over in front of the self-anointed tastemakers who thought they’d seen it all.