10 Wrestlers Who Do The Same Spot EVERY TIME They Wrestle Each Other
6. Stone Cold Steve Austin & The Rock - Finisher Theft
Though neither invented nor championed by Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock, the finisher theft trope was magnified and perfected by 'The Rattlesnake' and 'The Great One' thanks to the enormous stage they'd built for themselves at the commercial height of Vince McMahon's empire.
Their main events - particularly the pair at WrestleManias XV and X-Seven - were loaded with everything that made company headliners so great at the time. In 1999, it was in-crowd brawling and a wacky stack of run-ins that invariably ended badly for the heels. Two years later, and with a vastly improved in-ring product and Austin's surgically repaired neck good to absorb the action, the two went hell-for-leather in one of the most enduring 'Show Of Shows' headliners in company history.
In these and countless other clashes between the two, both Austin and Rock engaged in spamming their biggest hitters and trying out their own versions in acts of desperation that betrayed their cool. It became over-familiar in WWE before being artistically remained in NJPW, but few embedded the chaos into scenes with such stakes.