30 Great WWE Superstars And Their Strange Rookie Finishers

8. Shawn Michaels

Nobody did a better superkick than Shawn Michaels; let€™s establish that from the beginning. Yes, Chris Adams did it first, and Steve Blackman could legit hurt someone with his thrust kicks, but HBK€™s was it. There was something about the extension of the leg, the urgency of the movement, the way he'd collapse after hitting the move late in a match, as if he were casting it from hit points . That's why it's hard to believe that, at one point, Michaels used his superkick to set up a taint-grip suplex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWeVxEojSGs Okay, so the Teardrop would more properly be called a leg-hook Saito suplex, but come on. The main problem was that whenever someone would try to counter the move, they'd make these terrified faces and try to swat Shawn€™s hands away from their nether regions. Well, that and the fact that, other than the unique grip, it looked a lot like a run-of-the-mill back suplex.
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