10 Wrestlers Banned From Using THEIR OWN Moves
8. CM Punk
Now, there were two reasons why CM Punk retired his Pepsi Plunge which, to the uninitiated, was a top-rope variation of Triple H's Pedigree.
Firstly, it was murder on the knees, which he drove into the mat from the top turnbuckle at a distance many fans, your writer among them, take for granted. The Pepsi Plunge was a young man's move, and he was intelligent enough to abandon it when he realised that he'd already been well established as an early cult hero of the nascent independent movement. He swapped the move for KENTA's GTS to in all likelihood troll fans who buried him for taking liberal inspiration from the Japanese scene.
Secondly, here's the thing: the fact of the matter is, there was never any chance of Punk bringing back the Pepsi Plunge in WWE because it was a cooler and more spectacular version of Triple H's finish, and nobody is cooler than Triple H. He rides a hog, wears a leather jacket, and gets sucked off by Divas onscreen. Not even on a special occasion did Punk bust it out again.
Triple H was right to do this, of course, since it was his move first and he was in WWE years before Punk was.
Them's-uh the breaks-uh.