10 Awesome Wrestling Moves WWE Wrestlers Are Secretly Sitting On
Deadliest weapons or best kept secrets?
As anyone who's ever played a wrestling game will tell you, you're only allowed to have two finishers in your arsenal. Obviously I'm not including No Mercy in this, where you were allowed about 12.
Thus it's something of an unwritten rule that, when a wrestler devises a devastating new move, they're forced to relegate their old ones to "signature" status or, even simpler, just retire the thing entirely. For every Stone Cold Stunner popping a capacity crowd, there's a Million Dollar Dream collecting dust on a shelf somewhere.
But there's an entire sub-division of wrestling joy reserved for seeing these forgotten beauties make a rare appearance. Whether they just feel right in the moment, add to the narrative of the match, or need to be saved for special occasions to protect a performer's aging bones, the shock appearance of a classic move can be as big a talking point as the result of the match itself.
Thankfully, the long and storied careers that stars take on their way to WWE now usually means that the roads they've travelled are littered with such big-hitters just begging to be revived. Let's take a look at 10 of the most tantalising.
10. Kevin Owens - Package Piledriver
Ironic, really, that Kevin Owens is forced to sit on the Package Piledriver by WWE because they will no longer allow any wrestler to effectively sit on their opponent's head. Despite being an iconic finisher in an almost era-defining indie run, it was declared Absolutely Not On by his new employers and he tweaked it into a powerbomb instead.
However, Kevin Owens wants you to know that it's not retired. Kevin Owens wants you to know that he hasn't forgotten about this move. Kevin Owens wants you to know that one day he's either going to get the OK to bust that beauty out again or, better still, simply stop caring about the consequences that would follow an unauthorized appearance.
Thus in almost every single one of Big Kev's Big Matches, he has set his opponent up for the thing before letting them wriggle free and counter. It's a tease that's registering with less and less of WWE's core audience - to the point now that probably only a handful of people in a crowd actually realise what he's doing - but he keeps doing it nethertheless.
Special mention, while we're here, to the Steenalizer.