25 Perfectly Timed Iconic Wrestling Shots

By Kevin Wong /

19. RKO Outta Nowhere!

The RKO is an incredible finishing move. It looks painful, it allows Orton to engage in crowd pleasing theatrics, and it's performable in nearly any situation; his reversal of Rollins' Curb Stomp into an RKO at Wrestlemania XXXI was unreal. But the reversal depicted here is by far the more impressive. Evan Bourne uses the Shooting Star Press as his finisher, and that's dangerous enough (more on that later). But on top of that, Orton caught Bourne's head mid-rotation, and reversed it into an RKO. It takes a lot of cojones, particularly on Bourne's part, to do something this acrobatic and death-defying for the sake of entertainment