6 Wrestling Finishers That Have Never Been Kicked Out Of
4. The Razor's Edge
Scott Hall's infamous backstage craic about kicking out of finishers carried weight when he used to say it - it's why it was such an effective thing to rattle his colleagues with
It's hard to imagine Cedric Alexander or Chad Gable kicking up much of a stink in 2019 if 'The Bad Guy' turned up and bantered them off in such a fashion, but he'd have never agreed to similar circumstances in his WWE pomp.
Like many finishers of the time, The Razor's Edge was a safe decider because it wasn't appearing otherwise. Confined mostly to squashes of jobbers on television, the big stars used the brutalisation of local losers to get moves over, then only ordinarily pulled them off on pay-per-views if they were to end in victory.
Razor was a master of this - for a Kliq guy, he ate a fairer share of defeats than his friends, but there was no chance a victor was claiming his killshot too. Notably selling a bad knee or back, or simply allowing guys to slip from his grip, if they did hit the deck, they were staying down.