Most and Least believable and devastating finishers in WWE.

[nbieclkl91]

Just like the title says. Which 2 current WWE superstars do you believe have the most and least devasting and believable finishers? Make sure you explain why.

Most Devasting: CM Punk-GTS (Go to Sleep). This move is easily the most devasting move in WWE today. I mean, first he lifts the opponent on to his shoulders then drops them face first into his left knee. If someone did that to you in real life, you'd definately be out for the count.

Least Devasting: Santino Marella-The Cobra. I mean, I love the guy and all and the finisher is definately funny and gets a huge pop, but it just shouldn't be a move that gets the pin for Santino. I mean seriously, he strikes someone in the throat with his hand and they're knocked out? Maybe they'd choke a little or something but they'd still be able to kick out.

 

[Bain]

WORST: The Miz - skull crushing finale. Too small and weak to make this maneuver have any impact or be believable.

BEST: Randy Orton - RKO. Can come from nowhere and would do some damage.

 

[Fire Marshall Bill]

Most believable: Burning Hammer is definitely a good choice. Essentially it's a DDT/suplex from off Tyler Reks' shoulders. Someone smashes your head on the ground from that height...yeah it's not gonna feel good at all.

Least: R-Truth's Lie Detector. It's a spinning forearm to the chest. Besides completely unpractical it just wouldn't keep anyone down for 3 seconds unless they were already going to be down anyways.

 

[Rampage Bentley]

Best: I'd have to fully agree with the GTS, I've used it in fights before, it most certainly knocks people out.

Worst: The Pedigree, only serves to smash your own testicles inside your stomach, at least with the cobra you could kill someone if you do it hard enough.

 

[RkoMachine]

ok i cant just pick one of each so im gonna list them

Most devastating
the RKO- This is easily my favorite finisher of all time because its sudden and always devastating looking

The pedigree- Such a sick finisher and rarely ever does someone kick out of it

Super Kick- Many have used this move and its always the same "hey dude i just kicked you super hard in your face, ummmm yeah stay down for 3 seconds now k?"

Least devastating

Cobra, Lie Detector, That shitty chokeslam/spinebuster that David Otunga always botches, 619 body splash thing

All these moves to me just wouldnt put someone down for the 3 count and they just look lame

 

[Mike Diesel]

Best-Last ride powerbomb/ any powerbomb, just a ridiculous move


Worst-that queer thing Heath Slater does. he just jumps in the air and taps a dude on the shoulders and he's "instantly paralyzed" give me an effin break!

The lie detector, and starship pain are pretty brutal. A bad bowl of chicken, ziti and broccoli could do more damage

 

[eljay7i]

Best- Big Show K.O punch, getting hit in the temple like that from a 500 pounder would put your lights out for a while.

Worst- The Wasteland, not really the move it's just that Barrett just doesn't do it with enough intensity..

 

[LSN80]

I know someone whose going to hate me for the least devastating finisher, but Im going with it anyway.....

Least Devastating-Wasteland by Wade Barrett: Seriously, a fireman's carry forward slam is the best they could do for this guy? He's the leader of a dominant faction, and has perhaps the least IMPACTFUL finisher. Its slow in its set-up, and it just looks like a weak landing. Im not a fan of any move that uses a fireman's carry unless the wrestler strikes their opponent with another body part(like the GTS), but this to me is the worst of the bunch.

Best/Most Devastating- Kane/Undertaker's Tombstone Piledriver: I don't know about you, but dropping someone straight down on their head, sometimes in a jumping fashion seems pretty devastating to me. Couple it with the strength and power of both, and it's easily the move that's believable for far beyond a 3 count. Both have shownn the ability to strike quickly with it, so its not as if its a move thats methodical or unbelievable in its setup.

 

[prosenfi]

Best: Tombstone pile-driver---any pile-driver would be devastating, but the tombstone is that much worse. I mean being dropped on your head and neck would keep anyone down. It just has to be set up correctly so it actually appears like your head hit the canvas.

Worse: Alex Shelly's Sliced Bread #2 ---I mean it looks flashy but all the victim is doing is falling on their back.

 

[IceMalenko]

I love the Wasteland finisher, myself.

Gabriel's 450 is a great finisher. Spinning cannonball dropped right on to your torso. Not surprisingly, it's the Nexus' gang-beating finisher.

619 is a pretty dumb one, I agree. Cobra & Lie Detector are up there.

 

[hdchz013]

Worse- Attitude Adjustment- I just don't see someone taking that move and falling hard enough to completely knock ALL the wind out of them for a 3 count....ESPECIALLY when a title is on the line.

Best - I'm in a toss up between two moves...One is Undertaker/Kane's chokeslam...them shoving you down as you fall...that's gotta knock all the wind out of you.
#2...I would have to pick Edge's Spear...I'm sure if he ran at any one of us with that shoulder straight into our gut...we'd be down. lol

 

[ARLO]

BEST:
When done an sold right, Christian's Killswitch.
It often looks weak because people are to afraid to sell it well. When Triple does the pedigree for instance, he loosens up the double underhook before impact, but with the killswitch you're always being held and you've got no choice but to go, quite literally, face first.

Worst:
I'm sorry but Dolph Ziggler's Zig Zag.
He takes a much harder fall than the victim. A lot of moves are like this but with the Zig Zag it's so noticable.

 

[RatedRPostingStar]

Best Finisher:Edges spear. I think it would hurt hell of a lot to have someones shoulder slammed into your gut. Especially for Chris Jericho at Wrestlemania 26 across the barricade.Goldberg's looks like it hurts too more than edges as o matter of fact.

Worst Finisher: Clothesline From Hell. It is just a normal clothesline. Everyone does that n the wwe so JBL needed to find a better move than a normal clothesline.Maybe a top turnbuckle clothesline would be a little more original.

Most Believable. Air Bourne. Evan can jump really high just to slam onto his opponent and it actually looks like it hurts.So in my book its the most believable.Also RVD's 5 star splash looks painful.

 

[Y2JChrisJericho]

Best: We're talking devasting here...the Pedigree, I did it once to a friend when we were about 10 years old, and he was vomiting for a week straight, true story haha. We laugh about it 8 years later too.

Worst: Cobra or Lie Detector for the reasons people mentioned...I don't mind the Cobra as it suits Santino's character, but the Lie Detector is awful...

BTW...Thank god R-Truth is alive, his brain had a lack of oxygen today.

 

[CB429]

Worst is definitely Drew Mcyntire's finsiher... Looks like it hurts him more than the guy he does it to.

Best: Chokeslam dude... grab em by the neck and lift em and then drop... whats not to like?

Best all time for me is tie for stunner and goldbergs spear...

 

[helofalco]

well everyone is right about the lie detecter looking really weak by truth so is the cobra but mine would have to be the 619 mainly because if you only notice mysterio is the only "superstar" to ever have his oppenent land on the middle rope. also wen MVP was there his playmaker was really weak

the most devistating is really these 3 tbh well the GTS obvious reasons. I also like the Lebell Lock by Brian Danielson ( never gonna call him daniel bryan) and the RKO due to perfection, the punt would hurt to

 

[helofalco]

well everyone is right about the lie detecter looking really weak by truth so is the cobra but mine would have to be the 619 mainly because if you only notice mysterio is the only "superstar" to ever have his oppenent land on the middle rope. also wen MVP was there his playmaker was really weak

the most devistating is really these 3 tbh well the GTS obvious reasons. I also like the Lebell Lock by Brian Danielson ( never gonna call him daniel bryan) and the RKO due to perfection, the punt would hurt to

 

[Spam102]

How can everyone think the spear is one of the most devastating moves???? Its a football tackle! Watch a game of rugby and you will see 25 spears a game. Please!

Best - I'm gonna go a little old school and say Booker T's Harlem Hangover. Love that move. Also, some of the most devastating moves aren't even finishers. Moves like the DDT and the Brainbuster would be brutal.

Worst is obviously the cobra

 

[Taylor Gang or Die]

The Lie Detector(looks more fancy than it will acually hurt you)
Cobra(comedy finisher)
Skullcrushing Finale(its solid but nothing special)

Most Devestating:

GTS(knee to head)
Brogue Kick(looks like it would knock my head off my shoulders)

 

[Strong Style X]

Devastating: Any form of a piledriver, DDT, or submission when used correctly.

Weakest: Lie Detector, The Cobra is a comedy move but still, The Wasteland (This move looks HORRENDOUS when Barrett does it), and John Cena's "STF". Doesn't even deserve to be called an STF.

As for people saying clotheslines aren't legitimate finishers? Stan Hansen and millions of strong style fans would beg to differ. Clotheslines (and to a greater extent, Lariats) can look brutal when sold/performed properly.

 

[CAPT SPAULD1NG8]

least devestating looking - attitude adjustment. im not saying this just because i dont like cena. im saying it because it doesnt look that powerful. its basically just a standing firemans carry.

most devestating - its a tie for me. tombstone and go to sleep. tombstone drops you right on the top of your head so most likely your going to get knocked out. it looks like it really hurts and the same goes for the gts.

 

[Klown_Karnage]

As to the least devastating and believable finisher in the WWE, there's really no comparison: The Cobra. Don't get me wrong. I like Santino a lot and the move fits him, seemingly harmless and yet inexplicably successful, but it's not by any means believable, let alone devastating.

The most devastating in my opinion is the Tombstone Piledriver, and not just because of who is delivering it. If you take it at its face value, being dropped directly on your head could kill you, especially if done on the steel or the cement, but even on the mat. The Undertaker in particular can really make that move look good and plenty of wrestlers can sell the hell out of it.

As an honorable mention, it's a pity that (at least so far as I know) nobody in the WWE used the vertebreaker. If they had, that would have been my choice for most devastating.

 

[Malenko316]

I think you can seperate out something like the Cobra, which is meant to be comedy - it's Santino for god's sake. The Lie Detector is a little inaccurate, in the sense that most of the time it is still the precursor to the Axe kick, so is only a part time finisher. The 619 is also not technically a finisher as it only leads to something else (all admitted being equally weak looking).

Of the legit finishers, Starship Pain (is pretty, but JoMo never lands more than a leg or his head onto the recipient), Spear (the fact it is such a common move removes any awe) and the Sleeper (you can NOT tap someone out without a hand BEHIND the head) are all weak. Barrett would have got the nod waste land but gets saved by Cena. The AA is a fishermans carry - part of wrestling 101 (ok, so Cena has admittedly never taken that) and the STF obviously never has any torque on it. DisHonorable Mention: Pedigree.

As for the best: Orton can always be seen to pull the foot on the Punt so that rules it out. Likewise the same problem with the GTS. The only moves that would actually hurt are the submission that are 'correctly' applied - so thats: Del Rio's Juji Gatame, Kaval's reverse Kesa Gatame, Swaggers' Ankle Lock, Danielson's Omnoplata and Punk's Ancaconda Vice. (Taker's Gogoplata is out due to Taker never having applied properly so far).

Having been on the receiving end in Judo of the Juji Gatame and Omiplata, I'd say they are tied. But an honorable mention also goes to the Anaconda vice, beaten out mainly on the grounds punk seldom uses it.

 

[dizzle1119]

5 Awesome High Impact Finishers:

1. Stunner/Cutter (The RKO.....it's simply a variant of the Stunner/Cutter. This is a classic finisher that can be hit on an opponent of any size. It's high impact and can come from nowhere. It's no coincidence that 3 EXTREMELY "over" guys and a tag team (Austin, DDP, Orton, Dudleys) have gained fame this finisher in the last 15-ish years)

2. Power Bomb (Always a game ender....no matter which variant you want to talk about)

3. DDT ( McIntyre's variant of the classic DDT is badass. If so many guys hadn't brought the DDT into their "regular" moveset over the years, the future shock variant would probably be more "over" with fans. Once upon a time Jake Roberts' DDT was feared. It's still a nasty finisher if you ask me)

4. Chokeslam (I'm partial to The Big Show's Showstopper variant, but the manuever is almost always a game ender when performed by a brute)

5. Piledriver (Whether it's the lazy/pulling driver that Foley once used, or the Tombstone, the piledriver is a finisher in the truest sense. Bonus points for the jumping piledriver. OUCH)

5 Awesome Submission Finishers:

1. Sharpshooter (Nasty hold. Nuff said)

2. Figure 4 (How many people have tapped to the figure 4? It ALWAYS looks legit)

3. Lion Tamer (Not the Boston Crab, but the REAL hold that Jericho made a name for himself with)

4. Texas Cloverleaf (A very underappreciated hold that'd be agonizing to endure)

5. Ankle Lock (In "real" combat, the ankle lock puts an instant end to any confrontation)

10 Terrible Finishers:

1. FU/Attitude Adjustment (I don't know if it's true, but I've told that Cena's finisher was born when he botched a Death Valley Driver. I sorta believe that, because nothing about this finisher says "Hey, I'm the top dog". It's very meh)

2. Starship Pain (All flash and no substance. There's just too much goin on here, which leads to a finisher that's too easily botched. Morrison was better off with the Moonlight Drive finisher. Personally, I think the guy would benefit from an out of nowhere finisher such as the stunner/cutter or super kick)

3. Lie Detector (This isn't a bad manuever in many ways, but a finisher it is NOT)

4. Edge's Spear (Edge lacks the size to make this manuever look legit. I'm sorry, but it's true. When a guy like Goldberg or Rhino hits this move, it looks brutal. With Edge, not so much)

5. Sleeper (I don't care if it's Brutus Beefcake, Ted Dibiase or Dolph Ziggler. Every variant of the sleeper is mehtastic)

6. Angle Slam (How is this a finisher? Furthermore, how did one of the greatest wrestlers of all time come to use this as a legit finishing move)

7. 619/West Coast Pop (Purely awful. I understand that Mysterio is a small guy, but come on. Do some kind of flippy/flashy top rope dive or something. Jeez)

8. Cobra (A knife edge chop to the throat would hurt like a mutha, but in the world of pro wrestling you've gotta bring more than that to the table as far as finishers are concerned)

9. Wasteland (Simply put, it sucks. It's not as bad as the FU, because there's at least SOME impact, but that doesn't make it good)

10. Whatever the hell it is that Heath Slater does (Don't know what it's called and don't care to know. It's terrible)

 

[maddogplatypus]

i dont believe no1s said it. least devestating, cenas npstf(no pressure stf) the move is so tame. also anything the great khali did,
most devestating, the warriors way by kaval, that move would break ribs at the best of times, also carlitos backstabber