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My Top 5 All-Time Favorite Wrestling Finishing Moves


In a previous article, I wrote about my top 5 all-time least favorite finishing moves and stated the reasons as to why they look absolutely stupid and not very impressive.

Here are my top 5 all-time favorite finishing moves.

1. High Impact Spear - When Bill Goldberg brought this move to professional wrestling in 1997, the early versions of the high impact spear that he did were just as weak as Edge’s version was throughout his WWE career, but those high impact spear became more powerful and sicker particularly during a televised April 1998 match on Monday Nitro, Goldberg literally ran through then-US Champion Raven not once, but twice with the high impact spear before finishing him off with the Jackhammer. Other wrestlers like Bobby Lashley, Batista, Edge, Big Show, Rhyno, and even Roman Reigns have done the high impact spear, but Goldberg’s version of the high impact spear will always be my favorite one because he literally runs straight through you like a QB getting sacked by the defensive lineman. I admit I was a real big fan of Bill Goldberg when he was in his prime back in the day.


2. Fireman Carry Facebuster - This move is one of the most powerful finishing moves in the history of wrestling and to be clear on a undisputed fact as to who innovatived the move, it was Sean O’ Haire when he first performed the move during the infamous 2001 “Invasion” angle (type in Sean O’Haire F5 2001 on YouTube) and then the move was popularized by Brock Lesnar during his first run with WWE and even during his six year run as a part-timer. But as powerful as the move is, I hated it when The WWE buried the move at this year’s Wrestlemania when their current golden boy Roman Reigns kicked out of five F5’s which angered many fans at the arena and those who watched on TV and the internet.

3. Front Flip Piledriver - There has not been any other sicker wrestling finishing move that I’ve ever seen other than the front flip piledriver. Current Impact Wrestling wrestler Petey Williams actually innovated this move and this finishing move in which he calls “The Canadian Destroyer” that is performed in which the opponent is bent forward against the wrestler's midsection, the wrestler grabs around his/her opponent's midsection latching onto the opponent's back, with his/her head to one side of the opponent's hips or between their legs, keeping his/her legs around the opponent's head. From this position the wrestler pushes off the mat with his/her legs to flip the opponent over. As both wrestlers flip, the attacking wrestler uses his/her body weight to land in a seated position driving the opponent's head down to the mat between the wrestler's thighs. A double underhook variation exists in which the arms of a bent over opponent are placed in a butterfly prior to performing the flip. Despite it being a very dangerous move, but this is without a shadow of a doubt the sickest wrestling finishing move that I’ve ever seen.

4. High Angle Frog Splash - This move was popularized by Rob Van Dam during his time in ECW where he was definitely at the top of his game and WWE where his fighting style was greatly watered down. The reason why I loved this finishing move so much was when RVD hopped on the top turnbuckle and then jumped from the top rope, he often turned in mid-air to put more power to the move that dished out some serious damage and finishing off the opponent. This is my favorite all-time high flying wrestling finisher because this version of the frog splash was more powerful than the traditional one that wrestling legend Eddie Guerrero did when he was in his prime.

5. Double Underhook Facebuster - One of the main reasons why this move is one of my all-time favorite wrestling finishing moves is because of how powerful and intense the move looks when bends their opponent forward, placing the opponent's head between the wrestler's legs and then applies a double underhook on the opponent and then wrestler performs a kneeling or sitout facebuster like Triple H did when he was in his prime and what Seth Rollins sometimes does in his matches.

The Conclusion - The reason why I chose these five as my all-time favorite wrestling finishing moves because they look very convincing and we’re very rarely kicked out of back in the day unlike today.


By Kwame Shakir

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