9 Wrestling Moves Sami Zayn Doesn’t Do Anymore

6. Tornado DDT

The DDT is one of pro wrestling’s great moves. Grab your opponent by the head, drop them on said head. Anyone can do it to anyone, it doesn’t really require any suspension of disbelief, it can come out of nowhere. It makes absolute sense as a killer move (what with the whole ‘being dropped on your head’ thing). Jake Roberts claims that it was created by accident, making it the Newton’s Apple of professional wrestling.

Modern times call for modern measures, and many smaller wrestlers have chosen to imbue the move with a bit of 21st-century jazz by throwing in a spot of rope-walking and a pirouette. Sami Zayn was one such competitor, and once again he managed to perform with the utmost style and elegance. He would begin the sequence with a slap to the chest that rang around the arena, clasping fingers with his opponent before embarking on a merry dance up the ropes, a picture of elegant motion that soon came crashing to the ground. Magical.

All of this is in the past of course. The sequence fell apart over time, like the degradation of memory under siege from dementia, and the move was last seen in May 2019.

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