10 Hidden Meanings Behind Wrestling Moves

9. Moss-Covered Three-Handled Family Gradunza - Children's Book 

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The third of Chris Jericho's famed list of 1004 holds sounds like something from the surreal imagination of Dr. Seuss, and that's because it is. In the 1971 animated feature The Cat in the Hat, the eponymous feline takes to the piano to recite a lamentable dirge about his family's precious heirloom - the titular moss-covered three-handled family gradunza - being snatched by the hands of a nefarious gradunza-snitcher.

It's stirring stuff, and apparently Y2J deemed it suitably evocative to send the willies up Dean Malenko during their spring 1998 feud. The Iceman's Radicalz buddy Perry Saturn loved the name so much that he christened his swinging fisherman's suplex after it, leading to the quite excellent occurrence of Michael Cole correctly calling the move with all his earnest gravitas.

 
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