10 Current WWE Wrestlers Who Need New Finishing Moves

2. Nia Jax

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In the 1980s, Hulk Hogan became the biggest superstar in the history of professional wrestling, vanquishing foe after foe thanks to a mixture of prayers, vitamins, pythons and leg drops. Seeing a balding blond-haired orange-skinned human hotdog in bright yellow defeat an overweight Canadian masquerading as a natural disaster by dropping his leg on his chest was fairly commonplace in 1990.

One thing I know about 2016 is that it is not 1990. I'm not a mathematician, but 26 years have passed in between, and the only way a leg drop would be acceptable as a finisher would be if the perpetrator had grenades attached to the underside of their leg, although this would destroy all in sight.

Nia Jax, the 'not like most girls' wrestler who is currently squashing local competitors before inevitably being vanquished by heroic babyface number one, uses the leg drop as a finishing move. Nia Jax is the most 'powerbomb as a finisher' wrestler I can think of. Yet she uses a leg drop..

Other finishing moves in 1990 included the sleeper, the side slam, a neckbreaker and a spinning punch. The leg drop has no place as a finisher in the modern age.

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