10 Awesome Wrestling Moves WWE Wrestlers Are Secretly Sitting On

8. Braun Strowman - Reverse Chokeslam

It's not a universal constant, but wrestlers tend to change their finisher as a result of a major change in their character. After all, if the crowd absolutely loves to see your trademark move then you're not really doing your job as a heel if you satisfy them like that. Likewise, faces very rarely tend to win with a submission hold, because torturing your opponent like that isn't exactly a Good Guy thing to do.

Like I say though, not a universal constant, that, so please spare us the comment.

Braun Strownman's decision to introduce the Running Powerslam was an inspired one, but it didn't arise from a change in his character. In NXT he was an imposing, unpredictable, terrifying monster-truck with legs and, well, on the main roster he was exactly same, only they'd made him lose those trousers with the enormous piss stain on them.

Thus, putting the reverse chokeslam back into his repertoire of Ways I Can Batter My Puny Colleagues, wouldn't be at all jarring with the modern version of himself. Looked a bit janky at the time, yes, but show me someone who says they don't want him to do that to Lesnar one day and I will show you a liar

 
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