Ranking What Was Really The Best Wrestling Finisher Every Year 1990-2020

31. 1990 - Frankensteiner

Jaw-dropping and futuristic, Scott Steiner's Frankensteiner was a sensation in 1990.

It fused the two key components of a finish perfectly: it looked cooler than everything else he (or for that matter, anybody) did, and it looked rather difficult to kick out of, since he used those tree trunks he called thighs to spike guys directly onto their heads.

It required an insane level of agility and power. Steiner would send his opponents hurtling towards the ropes, jump up to meet them waist to head-height with an astonishing vertical leap, and, with one fluid motion that never looked cooperative, dropped them scalp-first with the takedown.

And because he was Steiner - a legitimate badass who rather enjoyed laying sh*t in so hard it became compacted - that head drop looked less like a "bump" and more like a "drill through the wooden boards".