12 Greatest Flying Elbows In Wrestling History

Bret Hart, for all the talk of being a great scientific wrestler, often ended his matches in the same way: the fabled Five Moves of Doom. Bret's preferred finishing sequence always ended with the Sharpshooter, but before that he would hit an inverted atomic drop, a Russian legsweep, a pendulum backbreaker, and then a diving elbow from the middle rope.

Bret's elbow was unique: a short-arm variation that was more focused on surgical precision than on earth-shaking impact. In that sense, it was a perfect weapon for the Hitman's arsenal, even if it never led to any memorable moments of its own.