10 Wrestling Moves That BLEW YOUR MIND The First Time You Saw Them
3. Scott Steiner's Frankensteiner
Quite possibly the most believable high spot ever performed, Scott Steiner's Frankensteiner is also among the most timeless.
The evolution of the industry is such that something like a frog splash only gets over now when it is performed by somebody who has no right to pull it off. The flying elbow drop is a risky and painful and kayfabe devastating manoeuvre, but it doesn't feel like one anymore.
And yet, despite being innovated three full decades ago, the Frankensteiner remains a fist-pumping f*ck-yeah move now, much less in the early 1990s, where it was truly mind-blowing.
Steiner's vertical leap was astonishing. He was a phenomenal athlete prior to his reinvention as the over-muscled, hyper-entertaining Big Poppa Pump. The sheer spike on the move was almost morbidly hilarious, given the snap and the jfc head-first impact. And in the true masterstroke, the Frankensteiner never felt remotely cooperative, because look at those giant sequoia trunks he called his thighs. They looked demonstrably capable of dragging anybody to hell.
Steiner invariably celebrated the perfect execution by allowing himself a fist pump of his own.
He was right to do it.