10 WWE Finishers That Don't Make Sense

Crafting a finisher is a fine art.

Having to look brutal enough to end a contest convincingly, whilst also being simple enough to be performed for the foreseeable future, it is no easy feat to land on this character defining match-ender.

If you scan the annals of WWE finishers that truly elicited a monster pop whenever they were hit, you'll notice that they had two things in common.

One being the ability to be hit at any time and the other being that they were accessible enough to avoid the risk of the owner being hurt every time they performed them.

Randy Orton's RKO, Daniel Bryan's Running Knee and even John Cena's Attitude Adjustment have all demonstrated these characteristics with aplomb.

Yet, we now seem to live in an age of wrestling where the elaborate has overtaken the efficient and some of the current crop of WWE stars have paid the price for not choosing a simpler way of concluding a bout.

Some of these finishers may look impressive, but you can bet your arse that they are too complicated to get over with a live crowd in the long run and some of these stars have already begun to change things up in order to explode the Universe on a more frequent basis.

Make no bones about it, Cedric Alexander is an incredibly gifted performer and it is only a matter of time before he gets fully over as the super-athletic babyface he deserves to be.

Having been a member of Monday Night Raw since April 2019, you would have hoped that his acrobatic move-set and instant likeability would have catapulted him into a decent spot on the card upon entry.

Yet, here we are in October of the same year and - after losing a U.S. Title feud with AJ Styles - Alexander is nowhere to be seen.

It could be easy to point to the fact that 'creative doesn't have anything for him right now', but perhaps an introspective look at his current finisher could be the answer.

The Lumbar Check - which involves Alexander throwing his opponent into the air before drawing his knees up for them to land on - is a visually impressive manoeuvre, but requires the recipient to possess equal athletic ability to pull off convincingly. This then leaves the audience disbelieving the significance of the move, as the victim looks as though they are in on the act.

Could you imagine Big Show or even Braun Strowman trying to take this, too?

Bye, bye, Cedric.

Adopting a move with more of a striking/ground-based origin (whilst equally leaning into his undoubted athletic prowess) would prove beneficial for this future star getting the kind of response he deserves.