10 Fascinating Facts About Famous Wrestling Finishers

Hulk Hogan's leg drop.

So much is made of the "modern style" and its apparent dangers. In the minds of tedious old school dullards, exhilaration is bad. In truth, there's no such thing as "the modern style". Across North America alone, the range is vast: intricate technical, super-indie hybrid, gutsy brawling, big match melodrama, irreverent comedy, strong style: it's all accounted for. CM Punk's magical return has brought back the believable, nuanced struggle and elite-tier selling to the forefront.

And yet many people are insistent that the isolated and doctored botches that flood social media are indicative of a decline in the working standard. The modern wrestler is the real mark, and they're willing to cut short their career for the sake of a cheap pop.

So what does that make Hulk Hogan?

The jabronie mark without a life didn't know it a work when he worked a work and worked himself into a shoot, mark, when he dropped the leg.

The cumulative damage of his finish destroyed his body. The man's hospital record reads like one of his infamous tall tales - "I was asked to play bass for Metallica but I was too busy replacing Paul McCartney in the Beatles, brother, God rest his soul" - but it's actually true. His knees, hip and back got mangled.

The leg drop is more dangerous than the Ganso bomb.