10 Wrestlers Who Completely No Sold Finishers

2. Hawk (Again)

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The still image above is captured less than three seconds after the 46-year-old Hawk has been nailed with Kane's chokeslam and Rob Van Dam's Five Star Frog Splash back-to-back in an unannounced opener on a 2003 edition of Monday Night Raw.

As noted elsewhere in this piece, Hawk's shtick was standing up from piledrivers and other similar neck drops, but this wasn't even him doing the usual after a Kane Tombstone. The legendary figure had been forced to eat a bit of sh*t as the contest's elder statesmen (though relatively young by today's standards, Legion Of Doom were presented as if they'd just been cryogenically unfrozen for this match) and fancied spitting it back out at the earliest opportunity.

Is it any wonder 'The Big Red Machine' looks as confused as if somebody had just tried to explain human empathy to him? Big Glenn looks as narked under his mask as he was with others wearing theirs during an ongoing global pandemic!

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