10 Early Wrestler Finishers You Totally Forgot About

2. The Rock - Running Shoulder Breaker

It wasn't until his reinvention as The Rock at the beginning of 1998 that Dwayne Johnson began to legitimately get over with the WWF crowd. He'd been playing the heel as a member of the Nation Of Domination stable under the Rocky Maivia name for a few months beforehand.

While still languishing in the upper midcard as the reviled babyface version of Rocky Maivia, he debuted what would become known as The Rock Bottom in a match at In Your House 15: A Cold Day In Hell against Mankind. The match would also become known as the one that caused the knee injury that, two weeks later, would see him off WWF television for nearly three months.

When he returned, Maivia was a heel, and the rest became wrestling history. So what did he use as a finisher during the bad old days as Rocky Maivia, white meat babyface and most hated man in the WWF? A running shoulder breaker. Not a bad move, by any stretch of the imagination, but it didn't even get the chance to be given a snazzy name.