10 WWE Finishers Leftover From Old Gimmicks
3. Adam Cole - The Last Shot/Panama Sunrise
Adam Cole is many things on the black-and-gold brand.
He's the leader of The Undisputed Era, the former and longest-reigning NXT Champion, and a vintage heel that has refined an awesome legacy on the independent scene to become a performer seemingly impervious to some of the WWE system's ills.
In fact, he's almost everything her ever was and more, apart from the personality traits attached to his most devastating moves.
If he's not finishing opponents with The Last Shot, he's trying to put them away with his Panama Sunrise Canadian Destroyer variant, yet neither of these boozy notes reflect the man he's become since arriving in NXT in 2017. He's cocky, confident and full of love for his own legacy of sh*thousery, but he's not 'The Panama City Playboy'. The names evoke feelings of a life that seemingly couldn't be further away from the one he appears to live today.
This is perhaps not really a complaint - Cole has done well to stick around on NXT this long. A move to either Raw or SmackDown could well see the moves given wackier labels, or worse, his personality changed to suit them. Remember the name Panama Pete Cole - you'll be crying Shorty G-sized tears about it later.