10 Awesome Finishers WWE Stars Should Steal
8. EVIL (EVIL)
For use by: Dolph Ziggler
Wrestling is deceptively easy sometimes, in that a simple modification can do so much to reignite a cooling act. Seth Rollins was directionless on RAW as Dean Ambrose succumbed to an elbow injury. One unbanned finisher and a warrior marathon performance later, he is this year's Harper: not that it is at all likely to happen, but if he were a late entrant into the Universal Title picture, fans would go wild at the prospect. He is back.
Ziggler is far from that touchpoint; stigmatised as a Show-Off who cannot back it up, some form of change is required for a man who has existed in stasis for what feels like - and genuinely is close to - a decade. His Zig-Zag finisher underscores the problem; all bump and little delivery, it is almost too fitting for its subject. Adopting EVIL's EVIL STO - the snap behind which is reinforced with a killer leg sweep - weaponises him. So much of Ziggler's offence looks like it takes too much painstaking effort to execute. Even when on offence, he can't help himself but hit the mat back-first. It's as if he is genetically coded to job.
A succinct and brutal finish requiring no weird flailing cooperation would put over the idea that he is no mere New Gen clone.