Favorite Five Moves of Doom

[Richard Blonoff]

The term Five Moves of Doom have been closely associated with John Cena and to a lesser extent Randy Orton in recent years, but most top face wrestlers have them. They are designed to get you excited about the upcoming finish.

Of course Cena has the shoulder block x2, back suplex preceded by ducking a clothesline, 5 knuckle shuffle, then the AA

Orton had the clothesline x2, powerslam preceded by ducking a clothesline, rope hung DDT, RKO

Bret Hart had the inverted atomic drop, Russian legsweep, backbreaker, elbowdrop from the second rope, and Sharpshooter

Shawn Michaels had Manhattan drop, flying forearm, scoopslam, elbowdrop from the top rope, Sweet Chin Music

Hogan had his famous Hulking Up, punch, big boot, leg drop.

Jake Roberts would hit three or four jabs, a haymaker, a short arm clothesline, then the DDT.

Even non main eventers have them.

Santino has the splits to avoid a clothesline, armdrag, headbutt, Cobra.

Kofi has the flying forearm smash, dropkick, two handed chop, Boom Drop, Trouble in Paradise

Plus many, many more that I can't think of off the top of my head.

Five Moves of Doom, Go home sequence, Finishing sequence, whatever you want to call it the sequence, which do call your favorite? Personally seeing Santino and Kofi go into their sequence always gets me fired up, even if they often miss their first attempt at their actual finishing move.

 

[Davi323]

Definitely Hulk Hogan's. The entire Hulk up sequence is the most famous combo in all of wrestling. I bet most fans who are old enough to have watched Hogans 1980s WWF run can mimic the entire thing.

 

[The Dragon Saga]

Bret Hart's. Totally biased here as I loved watching Bret wrestle growing up, but I always thought his sequence of moves was the most "varied" if you will. From any other man they were just moves, but from Bret, they were the set up to the deadliest submission move in wrestling at the time, the Sharpshooter.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

Bret Hart's.

 

[Stormtrooper]

Hulk Hogan, and it isn't even close.

He pretty much started the 5 moves of doom thing. And it doesn't matter if he's a face or heel, the second he starts no selling and points after a punch by his opponent, he gets a ten times bigger ovation then everyone else in the business could at any point in a match.

 

[Theo Mays]

The more important question is what is Booker T's Fave Five Five Moves of Doom?

And it is definitely a toss up between Hogan or Hart. How original.

 

[The Crock]

Cena's. Easily.

 

[CleverName51]

I'm gonna add in another one...

Dwayne aka Rock

Lay the Smack Down punches, DDT, Spine Buster, People's Elbow, Rock Bottom

 

[TBK]

I remember for a while Sheamus had one. He had a pretty cool one. I don't remember the full one. I think it was something like tying his opponents arms behind their chest, hitting his opponent's chest a few times, gets on the ropes and delivers a kick sending them under the ropes, doing a springboard shoulder block from the outside and then finishing with a brogue kick?

He sort of stopped doing it though. Or maybe he didn't. I rarely watch Smackdown anymore, though.