10 Wrestlers With Better Signatures Than Finishers
3. Kevin Owens
The finisher:
Kevin Owens has two more or less interchangeable finishers, and neither are great. The Pop-Up Powerbomb is a finisher that should be used as a signature; it signals not the end but a swift change in the momentum of a match. It's a fantastic defensive weapon that can never feel like a true death blow because the recipient must have something left in the tank to enable the set-up. It's never an exclamation mark. The Stunner is and always was optimistic and honestly quite lame cosplay that only echoes now that fanciful time he was going to be the next Steve Austin. There's a tedious, undying dialogue over the permissions of moves, but the Stunner is so iconic that it dwarfs Owens every time he uses it.
The better signature:
Owens' frog splash looks at once devastating and spectacular. It's the perfect finish and he should build and use it to finally exorcise the spectre of the package piledriver. It looks, plainly, like it f*cking sucks to take: Owens is a unit, and that move by rights should knock the wind out of his opponents more than long enough to secure the three. It's like throwing a wardrobe off the top rope and somehow conspiring to control its aesthetically pleasing trajectory.