10 Great WWE Finishers Used By Less-Than-Great Wrestlers

1. Scott Steiner - Steiner Screwdriver

I might get flak for this one, but here we go...

Scott Steiner was a mediocre at best singles wrestler. Sure, he was charismatic as all hell and verified mathematical genius, but his work was plodding, uninspiring and boring as anything. The bigger that Steiner physically became, the less mobile he was, and that didn't make for interesting viewing.

Saying that, the Steiner Screwdriver may very well be my favourite move in professional wrestling.. I love me some combinations, especially when a vertical suplex is included in the mix. The Screwdriver was a vertical suplex turned into a sitout piledriver, and Steiner was so very stiff that it never looked anything less than brutal.

It always somehow managed to pop commentators, too, which is a much undervalued skill in the wrestling move department. For me, the Steiner Screwdriver is the greatest finishing move ever used by someone who was as meandering as singles wrestlers come. Steiners throwing dudes around in tag matches was great, but nothing beat the Screwdriver.

In this post: 
Mordecai
 
Posted On: 
Contributor
Contributor

Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.