100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
3. Will Ospreay | Hidden Blade
A lot of wrestlers, who will go unnamed, watched Kenny Omega break out in 2016 and fancied some of his V-Trigger. More than one wrestler just thrifted it outright, which is fine. This is wrestling. That is what wrestlers do.
Will Ospreay was more intelligent, more creative. He took the principle behind the V-Trigger - a concussive strike that could only look so deadly in the hands of a true working genius - and used it to create a completely different move: the Hidden Blade.
A flying elbow strike aimed directly into the back of the head - before Ospreay played with a variation straight in the face - the physical timing was out of this world. It looked like it was impossible to perform safely. It looked, and you could slow it down frame-by-frame and still wonder exactly how he did it, like he’d actually hit the thing. And have you ever smashed the back of your head against something by accident?
The searing pain is unbearable.
The Hidden Blade is magic, a throwback to a time when people half-believed.
A Twitter post, which some non-fans actually took seriously - ‘Wrestler goes off script and shows brutality’ - showed Ospreay striking the much-missed Mad Kurt with the move. You can see why people thought it was real.
Which other wrestling move looks half as good as it?