10 Greatest WWE Sellers Of All Time

4. Rob Van Dam

Rob Van Dam selling
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A lot of wrestlers sell their opponents' more explosive moves with exaggerated facial expressions and a lot of writhing around (see: Chris Jericho, Cody Rhodes), but RVD takes a much different tact when he's on the receiving end of a devastating maneuver: he tries to murder himself.

It's quite frankly unfathomable how many times this poor guy has been dumped directly on his head. Either he has the strongest neck muscles on the planet or his bones are made of elastic. Either way, you can't help but sit back and marvel at it.

The way RVD takes a piledriver - seemingly all on his neck, then springing a solid three feet off the mat - has yet to be replicated by any other performer, and with good reason. It's a f*cking crazy thing to do.

A lot of people like to rag on Van Dam for using far too many stock spots, running every once-innovative maneuver into the ground in the process. And that's fair enough.

But when he was on the defensive, he was an absolute treat. Because, ironically, he never stopped finding novel ways to sell moves that we'd all seen a million times before. And half of the time, you genuinely expected him to be severely injured, if not dead.

It's also worth mentioning how RVD is one of the only wrestlers who consistently sold the damage of his own finishing move.

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