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

26. 1995 - Japanese Ocean Cyclone Suplex

Manami Toyota was an all-time great, and the Japanese Ocean Cyclone suplex was one of those mind-blowing moves that felt, the first time you ever saw it, like you were struggling to log into a new thought frequency. It was too dangerous and cool to be real, almost - so much so that it was never really adopted in the western indie circuit like so many other '90s puro creations.

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But why?

It's spectacular.

It would get over anywhere.

A frighteningly angled electric chair suplex delivered with an unnaturally beautiful arc, it's something that only an elite women's wrestler can execute. Toyota was that; she had the benefit of working smaller opponents in the joshi realm, but possessed an astonishing, unprecedented flexibility that marked her as a great.

It was, literally, inimitable.

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