Finlay was known for throwing a quite a few stiff shots during his career but none perhaps as staggering as his clothesline. The short-arm clothesline, a variant where the attacker whips the bumper into the oncoming arm, actually has the potential for doing quite a bit of damage if performed unsafely. Funaki, in the video above, fortunately bumps the move properly as he starts to throw himself onto his back from the whip before the impact of the arm. Still, you can hear the impact upon the throat and watch as he grabs it in pain afterwards. Selling? Perhaps. Perhaps not. What is for sure is that Finlay earned himself the reputation of a man who would happily sacrifice some of your discomfort for an old-school legitimacy to his matches, whether you were happy with it or not! It's an aspect of pro-wrestling that has died out in recent years. With weapons, bumps and shots. The super-money image and safety of wrestlers take precedence nowadays, which, when you consider clotheslines used to break some wrestler's necks, is probably a good thing!
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