8 Wrestlers Who Do The Same Weirdly Specific Spots Over And Over
7. RVD Misses The Rolling Thunder
Yes, there's a reason they're called "high-risk maneuvers", and literally no wrestler in the history of sports entertainment has better exemplified why the high-risk/low reward duality of the daredevil wrestling style. Rob Van Dam has no fewer than two dozen "signature" moves, which is to say that he spends the majority of every match doing all of the same things you saw him do the previous match. One of those moves is the Rolling Thunder, where RVD does a diving forward roll and then springs off his feet into a jumping front flip senton splash. The move looks cool, as all of RVD's moves do, right up until the guy he's supposed to splash onto moves out of the way and RVD ends up smacking his back onto the ring, or the other object he had his opponent laid out across. And as of today's date, the success rate for this move is about 15-for-9,000. Even worse when there's a ladder involved. From a logical standpoint, it makes sense that the opponent would roll out of the way, since Rolling Thunder is usually a highly telegraphed maneuver with a painfully long set-up. That hasn't stopped him from trying to work it into just about every match, mind.