10 Amazing Wrestling Moves You'll NEVER See Again
8. Randy Savage's Top Rope Neck Snap
Somebody needs to steal this, but the relative lack of impact compared to contemporary strikes seems to have confined it to the distant past.
Macho Man Randy Savage was an innovator and a game-changer, (and any other cliche you wish to apply to a performer working years - if not decades - ahead of their time) during his 1980s/1990s peak.
A performer with a physical appearance to match the hyper-inflated bombast of the day, he moved like a man half his size and was constantly able to use that to his advantage. He moved as if he was whipping himself into positions, darting frantically to the top for axe handles and elbows as if he’d been shot out of a cannon in the top turnbuckle’s direction. It’s perhaps why he was more than happy to take flight all the way to the arena floor just to bounce an opponent’s head off the top rope.
Charging towards oblivion with his foe along for the ride, he’d land feet-first on the floor to create the momentum needed to snap a neck across the top rope.
Like so much of his dazzling work, it was as brutal as it was beautiful.