10 WWE Superstars Who Gambled On A Brand New Finisher
1. Mankind
In 1998, Mick Foley risked his body and life to get over in a King Of The Ring Hell In A Cell clash that instantly made him a bigger star than he'd ever been before...until putting a sock on his hand somehow propelled him even higher.
Often lamenting just how successful Mr Socko had been in comparison to some of his lesser-known (and entirely different) exploits years earlier, Foley probably wouldn't have been able to get it over to such a degree had he not inspired such sympathy earlier in the year.
The Mandible Claw had been a devastating destabilising and debilitating hook hold targeting the gullet of his opponents until Foley put a sock on his hand began grasping for his opponents' mouths, but the fans had long given up caring by that point - they were far more into him reaching into his sweatpants for the gimmick than giving thought to the way it supported its changed persona.
The more he steered away from the original Mankind character, the more money and fame he attained. Somehow, Socko simply made sense.