8 Devastating Moves Watered Down In WWE

8. T-Bone Suplex

A fair number of suplexes could be included in this list, but for me it is the T-Bone Suplex that is the most obviously watered down. Shelton Benjamin used it as a finisher for a short while during his initial singles push way back when, and whilst Shelton could throw a damn fine suplex the T-Bone wasn’t one of them. It always came across as a bodyslam with theatrics.

Compare and contrast with the man who gave the suplex its name, the Human Suplex Machine himself, Taz. Pretty much all of Taz’s suplexes ended the same way, and that was with his opponent landing on the back of their neck.

Expecting Shelton Benjamin to drop Maven onto his neck is a little too much maybe, but the move lost a lot of its impact when it was watered down in WWE.

Authored by John Bills

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First Posted On: 8th Jun 2016

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