10 Wrestlers Who Changed Their Finisher When They Got Old
7. Ultimate Warrior
The Ultimate Warrior went ten years without wrestling at all, let alone not doing one of his most famous spots,
When Warrior faced Orlando Jordan as part of a major publicity coup for relatively small Spanish organisation NWE, it'd had been a decade since he'd last worked. And that was generous in truth - his WCW matches in 1998 barely counted, and the same could be said about almost all of his fairly disastrous 1996 WWE return.
Realistically, Warrior's last true peak came during his (yet again tumultuous) 1992 stint with Vince McMahon. Back then, he was derided for physically shrinking down from his famed 1980s size. Fortunately, he still had it in him to hoist victims skywards, creating the iconic visual of grown men being reduced to rubble from a great height.
Needless to say, that wasn't happening with Jordan.
An unsurprisingly lousy match concluded with his running shoulder tackle after mostly kicks and punches. Warrior was complimentary to Jordan after their match for helping him through it, but the press slam was clearly beyond them both.