10 Most Humiliating Wrestling Moves

5. Kevin Nash's Ashtray Powerbomb

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A taunt so cool that more than one wrestler has simply decided to pay tribute to it, Kevin Nash's "ashtray powerbomb" was immaculate sh*thousery.

With his opponents trapped between his gargantuan legs, Nash in his nWo heyday took to stubbing an imaginary cigar out on their back before driving it to the canvas. A particularly embarrassing "finito" gesture, he reduces his fellow professional to a mere ashtray - or worse, whichever otherwise useless receptacle is lying around that can be repurposed only to pollute the earth. WCW took over the wrestling world, for almost two years, for far more significant reasons than a very cool, disrespectful taunt - but it articulated the way in which Nash got over as a megastar.

His character was a transgressive, imposing bully who jettisoned his family-friendly trappings to become the disruptor wrestling badly needed at the mainstream level.

Any Young Bucks "haters" reading this might despair at this point, but sorry, Matt Jackson borrowing this taunt is an especially inspired take on it because it works on one more additional level.

As the squeaky clean Christian boy who hasn't touched a single thing that could be classified as a substance, this is him revelling in what he is often accused of being: a poser.

 
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