10 Unlikely Origins Of Wrestling Finishers
6. How PAC's Secondary Finish Got Its Name
AEW is the organised professional wrestling company.
AEW meticulously plots its storylines out to such a detailed extent that Kenny Omega sat in the house of Don Callis - which we knew after the fact because it had a picture of Don Callis in it - to secretly build the idea that f*ckery was afoot.
You'd think, then, that they'd establish the name of a new finisher key to both the result of a match and the implications beyond for the man who took it.
Then again, Kenny Omega Vs. PAC at All Out 2019 was a hastily-arranged match, enforced by Jon Moxley's injury, between two performers with the most protected, mythological finishers in the game. There could no finisher kick-outs, and perhaps it was thought that putting over PAC via the Black Arrow would convey the idea that one finisher was stronger than the other. In any event, in a shock result, PAC blacked out Omega with a Rings of Saturn-adjacent crucifix hold.
Tony Khan, as the commentator has subsequently revealed on the Unrestricted podcast, asked Excalibur to come up with a name on the fly.
'The Brutaliser' was an inspired choice; to borrow from PAC's regional dialect, Omega looked f*ckin' mortal and the crowd said haddaway and sh*te when he passed oot.