10 Most Protected WWE Moves Ever

8. Running Knee/Knee Plus

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Despite being injured or getting screwed for the vast majority of his final three years as an active competitor, Daniel Bryan was fairly well protected himself throughout those months (please, no roundabout concussion jokes there). It took the combined efforts of The Authority and a Sister Abigail to the barricade to keep him down, and his spell at the top of the card coincided with him using the running knee (known as the Knee Plus to some) as a finish.

To demonstrate how well protected the move was, it put both John Cena and Triple H down clean. Not being hit multiple times, just one knee strike and a three-count. In fact, the move only failed to bring Bryan success twice, and one of them was thanks to outside interference in the WrestleMania XXX main event. Roman Reigns was the other man to avoid defeat after receiving a knee to the grid, and that is because he is Roman Reigns and needs to look strong blah blah blah.

To date, no one has kicked out of Shinsuke Nakamura's Kinshasha.

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