11 Most Overused Moves In WWE

In the days when wrestling was first being brought to a mainstream television audience, bookers looked to simplify things so that it'd better go over. Holds were limited mainly to wristlocks and twists, and the few submissions out there weren't designed to make opponents tap: they either knocked out the victim or were fought out of at the last moment by large orange heroes.

In those halcyon days of big boots and clotheslines, there was one wrestling move so protected that the very idea of someone kicking out was laughable. The Superplex saw one wrestler positioned on the top rope while his opponent climbed up there with him and performed a standing suplex to the ring below. It hit hard, sounding like a bomb had gone off, and you knew the match was over. 1, 2, 3; ring that bell.

Now, a normal move performed from the top rope is so commonplace that it rarely gets a two count. Once used as a way to hit harder with a finisher and finally take out an unstoppable force, these "avalanche" maneuvers seem to show up all the time now. And, while they can still be something special as shown in the above match between Keith Lee and Dominik Dijakovic, they ironically lose a lot of their impact when everyone is doing them.