10 WWE Finishers Leftover From Old Gimmicks
6. Jeff Jarrett - The Stroke
Jeff Jarrett arrived in WCW with the support of the man who had quickly come to be the only one that mattered in 1999.
A Vince Russo Guy, 'Double J' was only too happy to get away from a WWE that had already lowered the ceiling on his main roster potential. Steve Austin didn't want to work with him, Jim Ross wasn't so keen either, and his loudest supporter had just gone to Atlanta.
Debuting with (what else?) a guitar shot to the head, Jarrett's next move was a finishing one. His fall-forward facebuster became The Stroke, replacing the figure four leg-lock (or indeed, the acoustic equaliser) as his primary path to victory. The not-that-subtle nod to the backstage influence he now apparently had was very WCW and very Russo, but the World Title runs he clocked up in the company's final year spoke to its sucess.
It naturally carried over to TNA, but was still a feature long after he lost his seat at the company's top table. The same applies today - even with a spot in Gorilla within spitting distance of Vince McMahon, WWE cameos will find him farting around with Elias, rather than scaling the industry's heights.