Safety? Overdone? Looks stupid?
What are some moves that you feel need to be used less (or not at all)?
German/Belly to Belly suplexes
Neck injuries and so much can go wrong once the wrestler is released. I remember reading someone saying they won’t take Germans anymore and if you look back through history neck injuries started becoming more prevalent along with German suplexes. Same logic for Belly to Belly.
Spinning backhand/elbows
Looking at you Jericho and Kingston These look horrible and always will. Jericho has a plethora of moves and Kingston using any old school japanese finisher would work with his character.
The dive over the ropes and onto 10 guys that fall apart like bowling pins. It’s unbelievable but it’s not horrible, just way overdone IMHO.
I’m getting very bored of Canadian destroyers and their varients, especially Adam Cole’s really stupid version of it which makes literally zero sense.
I’m a big proponent of protecting moves, especially finishers, and think that you should bury someone else’s finish by using it early in a different match on the card for a 2 count.
I agree and maybe I’m just old, but it’s crazy to see it become a transition move everyone and their mother uses, when almost 20 years ago it was the most innovative finisher out there.
I know this is far from the only case of a finisher becoming a regularly used move, but at least with something like the DDT, the execution looks pretty simple.
Super kicks. Especially the usos. Their super kick is so half assed and looks like they are trying to be gentle. At least the bucks makes them look good.
I specifically avoided saying Super Kicks because I knew it was going to be one of the first responses. Yeah, some people need to be brought to the side and told it’s not a super kick, it’s barely even a thrust kick…so please stop. Still want to see a bucks Usos match with a Mexican standoff 4 way superkick one day though.
Thankfully Eddie seems to be using the northern lights bomb as more of a proper finisher lately.
I don’t think it’s much of a hot take to say tope suicidas tick pretty much all of your boxes, op - they’re often unsafe, yawn-inducingly overdone, and a lot of wrestlers do them badly which looks real stupid.
More like Nope Suicida amirite
I like Dabry’s Tope and that’s it…only because of the way throws himself into it. I also feel like Darby is going to be eating through a straw by the time he’s 40…
Punches should be illegal. Mainly because of how badly they break kayfabe. An intentional punch to the face, delivered by an athlete would be a knockout in real life.
(Reposting since I couldn’t edit my last comment)
Just for the sake of kayfabe I think the Oversrive has to be retired. It’s just so stupid looking, especially when done poorly.
Spinning backhand/elbows Looking at you Jericho and Kingston These look horrible and always will
Aja Kong didn’t like this.
I don’t like draping DDTs. They don’t look any better than a normal DDT and they’re waaaaaaaaaaaayyyyyy more dangerous.
Also not a fan of sitout piledrivers but in AEW they take them more safely than guys did in the past.
Oh, I also don’t like the figure four, because it’s impossible to visually tell who is supposed to be in pain. I know that one is never going away, though. I also don’t like the atomic drop because it usually looks dumb and like it wouldn’t hurt at all (sorry Bret, even yours and Kenny’s).
Every and any move that requires landing on your knees. Tombstones, Hangman’s deadeye, that shit is going to make you into a semi-mobile cripple faster than you can say “That doesn’t work for me, Brother.”
I still remember Taker’s interview with Rogan where he detailed how they had to split one of his muscles to replace a shoulder muscle he tore so badly, repeatedly, and gradually it was literally just gone, due to his finisher requiring he carry the entirety of the opponent’s weight on his shoulders and then give it a jarring shock, landing with the sum of his and theirs on his kneecaps. Between that and his leg drop on the apron I can’t imagine any good reason to do this to yourself for decades.
