10 Finishing Moves That Never Made It To WWE

4. Scott Steiner - Steiner Screwdriver

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The three most dangerous moves in wrestling are as follows; 3. The Tiger Driver ‘91, 2. Appearing on Z! A True Long Island Story and finally 1. Scott Steiner's Steiner Screwdriver.

In the early 90’s, Scott Steiner possessed the most impressive move in US wrestling, the Frankensteiner. While in hindsight it was merely a hurricanrana on a running opponent, in 1991 it was veritably avant-garde.

Steiner didn't need another finisher, but he had one anyway - the Steiner Screwdriver. Hoisting his opponent up for a vertical suplex, the future Big Poppa Pump would swiftly send them plummeting into a gravity-assisted sit-out tombstone piledriver. Steiner had even used the move in the WWF during his first run in 1993, until Vince McMahon thought better of it.

When he returned eight years later, as a former WCW World Champion and headline star, the Screwdriver was a thing of the past, much like the neck vertebrae of the many Japanese wrestlers who were on the receiving end of it during the 90’s.

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