10 WWE Finishers That Were Quickly Dropped

8. Chris Jericho - Breakdown

Chris Jericho is a man of innovation. That's the key to a career that spans three-plus decades and has plenty left in the tank. Avoiding major injuries also helps, but Jericho has stayed ahead of the curve by constantly evolving his character and changing his finishing move to stay fresh. We've seen the Lionsault, the Walls of Jericho, the Codebreaker and now the Judas Effect. Every move was different, every move impactful.

Jericho's first dips into the waters of WWE came with a few different finishing moves, some of which stayed the course and others that are long forgotten. The Breakdown is the most notable of the latter, a Full-Nelson Facebuster that modern fans will know as Miz's Skull-Crushing Finale. Or Jeff Jarrett's Stroke, but that era of TNA is best left in the past.

The Breakdown wasn't around for long but it did make an impact, famously being used by Y2J in his attempts to screw Team WWE at the 2001 Survivor Series. Did he not realise that WWE was the only possible winner of the Invasion story?! Jericho shouldn't have bothered hitting The Rock with it all those years ago.

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