30 Great WWE Superstars And Their Strange Rookie Finishers

4. Triple H

Triple H has been putting guys away with the double-underhook facebuster known as the Pedigree since he first showed up in WWE two decades ago. Back then, the name made sense, a reference to the hoity-toity upbringing of Hunter Hearst Helmsley. He's stuck with the move ever since, even as his gimmick has evolved to sophomoric crotch-pointer, ersatz Harley Race, corporate Conan and NXT step-dad. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UOs43bkOPo Of course, the man who would be king (of kings) had a whole other life before his sojourn to Stamford. Actually, two of them: French aristocrat Jean-Paul Lévesque and generic heel Terra Ryzing. By the time he was putting on a cartoon French accent he was also doing the Pedigree, but Terra had to defeat his opponents with an Indian deathlock. Even today, Trips will dig deep and apply the deathlock in high-stakes matches. It's a nice nod to his history, but it never seems to have the effect it had when he was slapping it on WCW Saturday Night jobbers.
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