10 Most Protected WWE Finishing Moves Ever

6. 3D - The Dudley Boyz

Santino Marella Cobra
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A good tag team with an atrocious finisher automatically becomes an atrocious tag team.

When you think of The Road Warriors, you think, too, of the Doomsday Device. When The Brainbusters enter your mind, you obtain mental visuals of their Spike Piledriver. Should, for whatever reason, you spend a few minutes remembering The Beverly Brothers, you'll recall their recklessly inhumane Shaker Heights Spike killer. They're all examples of tandem moves which were protected immensely - but no tag team move has had such legendary success as The Dudley Boyz' 3D.

So protected was their Flapjack/Cutter combination, it formed the basis for their atrocious TNA feud between 2010 and 2011. Indeed, the feud itself was a bore, infamously so almost, but their reason for feuding made complete sense.

Chris Sabin, during the then-Team 3D's supposed final match together, kicked out after a 3D during Brothers Ray and Devon's Turning Point 2010 war with The Motor City Machine Guns. He became the third person to do so in the process following Masata Tanaka and Sylvain Grenier.

For a move so legendary from a team even more legendarily so, to have been protected to this level instantly makes it Hall of Fame-worthy. Should WWE ever consider a move for their fictitious illustrious walls - they should, considering some of the drab crap already present - then the 3D is a must-have.

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