10 Finishing Moves That Never Made It To WWE

3. Kevin Owens - Package Piledriver/F-Cinq

The piledriver has, for good reason, long been considered the most dangerous move in all of professional wrestling. Officially banned by WWE since the dawn of the 2000s, Kevin Steen would have been well aware that his package variety of the piledriver would not be accompanying him to WWE in his rebirth as Kevin Owens in 2014.

Instead of grabbing the waist of his opponent, Steen's package piledriver consisted of him putting his arms underneath his opponents, grabbing their legs by their knees, and then dropping them on square on their head. The package piledriver was quickly replaced, by the much less frightening pop up power bomb, which was anointed when Owens defeated John Cena in 2015.

However, it wasn't just the package piledriver that fell victim to Steen’s move to WWE. His secondary finisher the F-Cinq was also stripped from his repertoire when WWE officials translated the move from French into English, only to find out that it was a craftily renamed version of Brock Lesnar’s F-5.

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