10 Wrestlers Who Got PISSED When Their Moves Were Stolen
7. Taz's Tazmission
All of this was very strange indeed.
In 2019, T-BAR, then wrestling as Dominik Dijavokic, publicly requested permission from Taz to use his Tazmission finish - a genuine innovation that also pioneered the tapping-out trend in the pro wrestling arena. The phrasing of the request was bizarre - so bizarre that it almost had to be a sh*tpost. He wrote it in kayfabe, and it read as follows:
"Do you mind if I start using your Tazmission hold on WWE programming and events to defeat my opponents? I have found it to be a very effective manoeuvre. Thank you."
This read like an email a financial administrator would send, like that administrator was anticipating a b*llocking and tried to be extra nice to avoid it.
Very mannered, it was ironically impolite. Either T-BAR is just a bit weird and mince-thick, or he was being a bit of a knob. He seemed to do the right thing on the wrong platform, albeit insincerely. In any event, Taz wasn't too pleased at being drawn on the matter publicly and asked Dijakovic to take it to the DMs.
That was that; Taz quickly revealed that he had given Dijakovic his blessing to use the move, but it's not clear if he did, since nobody watches NXT and he was principally used to lose to Keith Lee in a very creative months-long saga premised on "Hey remember that cool PWG match? Here it is all of the time".
Sympathy factor: None really.