10 Finishing Moves Too Awesome For WWE

9. AJ Styles - Styles Clash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8R_Sy4bu4

I would wager that there isn't a bigger name in American professional wrestling outside of WWE than AJ Styles. You could argue that he is the modern day version of Sting in this respect. Whilst he did appear on WWE TV as a jobber over a decade ago (as well as in WCW as part of a tag team), AJ Styles grew as a performer and made his name as the face of the number two promotion in the USA, TNA Wrestling. 

Styles' finishing move since embarking on his singles run has been the Styles Clash. The move has received quite a lot of criticism over the last year after a couple of botched attempts at it, but the move has been performed safely for over a decade now. 

A belly-to-back inverted slam of sorts, the move was briefly used by Michelle McCool during her WWE run. The beauty of the move is that, especially in the independent world, it can come out of nowhere. Not in the RKO-sense, but in sense that Styles is adept at locking it in from a variety of situations. 

Not many kick out of it.

 
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