10 Wrestlers Who Desperately Need New Finishers

10. Shinsuke Nakamura

Shinsuke Nakamura Jeff Hardy
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Current Finisher: The Kinshasa knee strike. A modified Shining Wizard.

Why It Needs Changed: There's nothing wrong with the Kinshasa on the surface, and it was a fine set-up-style finisher for Nakamura when he was one of the crowd's darling babyfaces. Therein lies the problem: he's a heel now, and yet he's still using the same Shawn Michaels-like drama for his finisher.

It'd be fine for Shinsuke to keep using his knee strike if he had something else to lock on after it. He needs a submission, basically, one that looks sickeningly painful for his opponents and sees Naka revelling in the misery he's causing. A simple Crossface would probably suffice, and it'd make sense due to his knee smashing a rival's skull.

The OTT babyface posing pre-Kinshasa has to be toned down too. It hardly makes Nakamura look like the dirtbag heel he's supposed to be.

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