10 Indie Wrestling Easter Eggs That Played Out In WWE

6. Let's All Remember Michelle McCool Doing The Styles Clash

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_HxPhXHclY WWE is ridiculous sometimes. One of WWE's most ridiculous traits is to find something that a very popular wrestler wrestling for their competition does, and then somehow allow for it to be presented in something considerably less than a main-event style in their promotion. In 2010, Michelle McCool was in the midst of a dominant heel run alongside Layla El as heel divas "Team LayCool." During said run, McCool's finishing manuever was the "Faith Breaker," a facebuster from piledriver position that literally was the Styles Clash, aka the finisher that AJ Styles had been then using for over a decade as an independent and TNA-contracted performer. If you were an indy wrestling fan in 2010 wanting indy dream matches with AJ Styles against Daniel Bryan or CM Punk, seeing the WWE Women's Champion using his finisher had to provide the coldest of comforts, ever.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.