1. CM Punk Already Has His Finishing Move
WWE.comWhen CM Punk arrived in the WWE, he used the Anaconda Vice as his finisher. He realised that he needed a pinfall finisher. His pinfall finisher on the independents, the Pepsi Plunge, a top rope pedigree, was far too contrived and dangerous for the WWE. So he decided to use a manoeuvre called Go To Sleep, where he would hoist his opponent into a firemans carry position, before dropping them face first into his knee. But CM Punk didnt invent that move. That credit belongs to KENTA. When Pro Wrestling NOAH came over to the UK in 2008, he told me that he was unhappy that Punk had taken his move. It wasnt the fact that hed taken the move as his own itself. This happens all the time, and Japanese moves become western moves with a new name. Maybe the best example of this is the submission hold known as the Sasori-Gatame, invented by Riki Choshu in New Japan Pro Wrestling. It was adopted by Sting in WCW, who called it the Scorpion Deathlock, and by Bret Hart in the WWF, who called it the Sharpshooter. So it wasnt so much the fact that hed stolen the move, it was the fact that he hadnt even bothered to rename it that irked KENTA. Even though CM Punk is out of the WWE picture and may never come back, the Go To Sleep move is going to be forever linked with him in the eyes of WWE fans. Even if the WWE credited him as the inventor of the move, people will still think of CM Punk every time they see it. Its not even like they can use that to build a Punk v KENTA feud (which admittedly would be fantastic). So the likelihood is that KENTA is going to have to come up with a brand new finisher, even though he invented the move. Thats bound to get under his skin.