10 Fascinating Facts About Famous Wrestling Finishers
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Shawn Michaels grasped the Heartbreak Kid character immediately upon breaking into the singles ranks in the early 1990s.
He was outstanding in the legendary barber shop segment in which he smashed Marty Jannetty's face through the glass. He oozed cocky energy and practically embodied the persona before it was marketed. Weirdly, given his in-ring prowess, he failed for quite some time to tweak it between the bell. In that segment, he rocked Jannetty with a superkick. It looked awesome.
Inexplicably, he didn't use it as a finish - but perhaps inexplicably isn't the correct word. He was wrong to use the teardrop suplex but was right to think he should have, if that makes sense. Vince prized the colossus, and Shawn knew it. To compensate for his relative lack of size, he piled on the muscle and used a throw in a bid to work the boss. It didn't work; crowds responded flatly to the finisher. It was Pat Patterson, wrestling genius, who took Michaels to one side and told him to emphasise his best weapon and not pretend to be the power guy he wasn't.
WWE became exponentially worse when Patterson faded in influence, and this trivia note is just one of several reasons why.