Is it just me or do finishing move names suck now.

[The Antagonist]

Watching Raw tonight made me realize Most of em are horrible.

Trouble In Paradise

Shell Shock

Go To Sleep

The Yes/No Lock..

And of course, the worst.. Attitude Adjustment

None of them have that catchyness to them that the classics did..

 

[Dog Based Gremlin]

the boom drop


meat hook clothesline



the neutralizer

 

[ThatTruth777]

GOAT finisher name = The Razor's Edge

Some other ones that sound fly: Sharpshooter, Jackhammer, Evenflow DDT , Diamond Cutter, etc.

 

[MF_BREW]

Ghetto Baster.

 

[StatUS]

Nothing wrong with any of those

Big Show's punch being called the WMD is awful though.

 

[Thebadguy]

Is Titus' finisher still called Clash of the Titus? That's a cool name.

 

[SuikodenII]

Ghetto Baster.

...I don't even wanna know...

 

[luckyse7enz]

Is Titus' finisher still called Clash of the Titus? That's a cool name.

It's actually pretty awful when you're comparing it to things that sounded awesome when screamed repeatedly by J.R.

:yikesvince: STONE COLD STUNNER! ANOTHER STONE COLD STUNNER!

:yikesvince: ROCK BOTTOM! PEOPLE'S ELBOW!

:yikesvince: WHERE DID IT COME FROM?! SWEET CHIN MUSIC!!

:yikesvince: PEDIGREE! MY GOD, ANOTHER PEDIGREE!

:yikesvince: CLOTHESLINE FROM HELL!

:yikesvince: THE MANDIBLE CLAW! SHARPSHOOTER! SHARPSHOOTER! CRIPPLER CROSSFACE!

One thing that I dislike is how so many things are shortened/abbreviated:

GTS. AA/FU. WMD. F-5.

Then other moves are just corny. I like Ziggler, but the ZigZag? Corny. Preferred when Daniel Bryan just called it the Lebell Lock. Had a nice ring to it.

Seems like the moves are named after songs or television shows instead of maneuvers or eventful happenings. "Wasteland", "CrossRhodes"..

Hopefully The Shield keeps their finisher names. They aren't too bad. Midnight Special...Moment of Silence...Avada Kedavra (this one could use some fine-tuning)

 

[thevarangian]

Swiss Death

 

[Riley Escobar]

One thing that I dislike is how so many things are shortened/abbreviated:

GTS. AA/FU. WMD. F-5.

F5 isn't an abbreviation:

F5 tornado, an intensity rating on the Fujita scale indicating an extremely violent tornado.

Incredible damage. Strong frame houses lifted off foundations and carried considerable distances to disintegrate; automobile sized missiles fly through the air in excess of 100 m (109 yd); trees debarked; steel reinforced concrete structures badly damaged.

 

[luckyse7enz]

F5 isn't an abbreviation:

Yeah. I was kind of hesitating to throw the F-5 in there because it's one of the few that just is what it is...like the RKO. I was more so referring to how a lot of popular move names are shortened and verbalized as acronyms instead of full-out epic maneuvers with clever names.

A lot of them are either painfully shortened and generic: AA, FU, GTS, 619, RKO, WMD

...or long & corny: Trouble In Paradise, Skull-Crushing Finale, Gotch-Style Neutralizer, Clash of the Titus...

...as opposed to TNA: Styles Clash, Last Call Superkick, Angle Slam, MuscleBuster, Swanton Bomb/Twist of Fate...

 

[The Entity]

Good thread...almost everything about wrestling sucks now

 

[OGJOHNNY5]

The Go To Sleep was it's original name though...

dumbass thread.

 

[Psychosis]

I'm guessing the corny names are based solely on marketing. Its easier to come up with a t-shirt for the "Yes" Lock than the "LeBelle" lock?


Where the marketing majors at? btw you have to add the Souvenir to this list... who comes up with this stuff..

 

[Mr. Negative]

Good thread...almost everything about wrestling sucks now

this.

The Go To Sleep was it's original name though...

dumbass thread.

it's didnt translate well.