10 WWE Finishers That Were Quickly Dropped

3. Seth Rollins - THE KNEE! THE KNEE!

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After vanquishing Triple H with the Pedigree at WrestleMania 33, Rollins put The King of Kings into his rearview mirror and stopped using Hunter's finishing altogether. He didn't immediately go back to the Stomp though, and instead spent part of the summer doing a pretty shoddy impression of Kenny Omega, putting opponents away with a ripcord knee that sounded great but looked, well, tame.

There was a world of difference between Omega's V-Trigger and Seth's knee, a move that was vaguely referred to as King's Landing but more often accompanied by Michael Cole screeching 'the knee! the knee!'. The lack of scissor motion hurt the aesthetics of the move and stripped it of much of its impact, taking something with potential and making a great, big underwhelming cake with it.

There was the whole Omega thing too. 2017 was when Kenny Omega Mania kicked into high gear as the world woke up to his ability in the wake of a Six-Star classic with Kazuchika Okada at the Tokyo Dome. The Best Bout Machine was never explicitly mentioned by Rollins and WWE (of course not), but the comparisons exploded from the moment Rollins wound up the knee and nestled it into his opponent's chin.

Luckily for all involved, the Stomp eventually returned.

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