10 Crucial Booking Steps Needed To Save Hideo Itami’s WWE NXT Career

3. Allow Him To Use The GTS As His Finisher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vh_cxvZy0OE There€™s no denying the fact that Itami€™s WWE image was crippled by his inability to use a finisher unique to him. After all, CM Punk was using the Go 2 Sleep in WWE long before him, Daniel Bryan adopted his running knee strike and had been using the Omoplata Crossface long before Itami ever came along, AJ Lee had the Black Widow submission hold, and there€™s no way WWE would ever allow anyone to use either the Tiger Suplex or the diving Falcon Arrow on a regular basis in a WWE ring. That said, Itami needs to go back to using the GTS as his finisher now more than ever. CM Punk is long gone, but the GTS is still one of the coolest and most popular wrestling moves used today. When he teased using it, he got an enormous reaction, and when he hit it successfully earlier this year, he got a roaring ovation from the crowd. It€™s those kinds of reactions that Itami needs, not near-silence from sitting ringside at NXT TakeOver. With the GTS, Itami€™s popularity would skyrocket, without a doubt. It would make him a major draw in NXT, as there are some people who still love to see that move, regardless of who€™s executing it.