8 Wrestling Finishers Made Out Of Spite

8. Jeff Jarrett Has The Stroke

During his second tenure with the then-WWF in the late '90s, Jeff Jarrett was famous for having a huge fan in Vince Russo.

By the time Jarrett jumped back to WCW in 1999, Russo was already in Ted Turner's rasslin' promotion and running creative. As such, Vinny Ru immediately wanted to make Jeff into one of the company's top guys.

Throwing shade at those who'd lambasted Russo for pushing too hard for Jarrett to get a main event run in WWF, Double J's finishing move for his WCW return was a front facebuster named the Stroke. That was a play on how Jarrett supposedly had stroke with WCW higher-ups thanks to being close pals with Russo.

The Stroke would continue to be utilised by J-E-Double-F upon he and his father forming NWA-TNA, with this again leaning into how much political say and control Jarrett had behind the scenes. What better way for a heel to flaunt their backstage pull than by using a move dubbed the Stroke? Whether in WCW or TNA, this was slapping the audience in the face with the power - whether kayfabe or not - that the Chosen One could wield.

Jarrett did actually start occasionally using a front facebuster as a finish during the final days of his final proper run with WWF, but more commonplace at that point was seeing ol' Slapnuts get the win via a guitar shot, a Figure Four or even the odd running DDT.