10 Times Wrestlers Stole An Opponent’s Finisher (& Did It BETTER)
6. Sycho Sid - Tombstone Piledriver (WWF WrestleMania 13)
Everybody reversed the Tombstone Piledriver.
Kane stole - then outright adopted - the thing.
Triple H thrillingly pinched the migraine-inducing bump at WrestleMania 27.
Even Brian Lee, the imposter Undertaker, dropped 'Mean' Mark with his own weapon of mass destruction.
None were delivered as deftly as Sycho Sid's iteration. Headlining against The Undertaker at WrestleMania 13, Sid seamlessly countered 'Taker's attempt at securing victory by flipping backwards out of his grasp; think the Batista spot from No Way Out 2008. From there, Sid dropped to his knees and 'Taker to his head. There was no lessening the impact of his skull being dug into the mat, so much so that, had this not been The Undertaker, Sid would have gotten away with permanently stealing the move for himself.
Randy Orton, at Armageddon in 2005, pulled off a similar execution of the Tombstone. He fell, 'Taker's head was compacted, the spot wasn't the climax, rinse and repeat. The only differentiator was that, here, the Undertaker slyly dropped his arms from Orton's waist, taking much of the impact on his limbs.
There was none of that at WrestleMania 13, presumptively because concussion protocol was never discussed.