7 Shocking Times WWE Revived Banned Moves

7. Tombstone

The Undertaker's 2000 return as a leather-clad bike-riding 'American Bad Ass' saw him wreak havoc on the McMahon-Helmsley Regime, nailing both Triple H and Shane McMahon with Tombstones within 24 hours of his return. Only those two men would take them again for the better part of two years.

A spate of serious neck injuries in the late-1990s had resulted in long layoffs for some of the company's biggest-hitters. Stone Cold Steve Austin was the most notable absentee, taking nearly a year to recover from the surgery he required after an Owen Hart tombstone gone wrong two years earlier.

It was around this time that Vince McMahon issued an edict banning all piledrivers. Even the company cornerstone wasn't immune from The Chariman's whims. Upon his reimagined return to the main roster, The Undertaker introduced 'The Last Ride' powerbomb to circumvent the ban, until McMahon's stance later softened.

In 2001, it was coincidentally Triple H and Shane McMahon that took the move at WrestleMania and Survivor Series respectively. Feuds with The Rock and Ric Flair in 2002 represented a soft relaunch for the finisher before it returned full-time alongside his 'Deadman' persona in 2004.