Mick Foley was a genius for choosing the mandible claw as a finisher move...

Jeff Hardy's swanton bomb through the ladder is one of the reason he always getting almost career ending injury

Something I never thought about as a kid. All the wrestlers seemed immortal. You never think how injuries crop up so slowly over decades.

Brock Lesnar doing Shooting Star Press to Kurt Angle was pretty iconic . Glad that Brock got saved after that

I never did a connection between Triple H's knee injuries and the Pedigree. Now everything is crystal clear to me.

How the diving heatbutt, the move that crippled Harley Race and practically destroyed the Benoit family, hasn't been banned yet is beyond me. Also, Hogan used the lariat, which he called The Ax Bomber, to great effect in Japan.

I always wondered how Stone Cold did the stunner without hurting his backside. I see him land pretty hard when he executes the move.

The Undertaker is a great example of a wrestler finding new finishers to help relieve the damage being done by their original one. Although the Tombstone will always be iconic, Undertaker made both the Last Ride and Hell's Gate work for him. It honestly leaves me wondering why more wrestlers don't add new finisher's to their move set whenever they undergo a dramatic character change. This would allow them both an excuse for the new move, and to move away from a move that is starting to effect them physically and to save it for rare highlights on big stages.

You know you're getting old when you watch a finishing move that as a kid lit you up but now you think wow that must hurt their back.

Diving Headbutt was one of the reason Chris Benoit gotten concussion

The problem isn't the moves themselves. It's the fact that they do it 365 days a year. That would kill anybody.

So Randy Orton's RKO is indeed the main reason he still had his back injury . Hope he will be fine as always

Brock Lesnar doing the shooting star press was risky from off the top rope. That way you could seriously injure yourself with a concussion to the head or even get paralyzed, the part it amazes me is how Brock Lesnar was able to continue the match was beyond me.

5:56 that Eddie Guerrero elbow injury is eerie

God I miss Billy Kidman. I really wish he was still wrestling with Mysterio.

The swanton bomb was easily the worst considering the height of the stunts they were performed in. Plus there were a lot of TLC matches Hardy’s participated in. Falling on hard objects and not seeing exactly where you’ll land on your back/neck area is probably the worst part, because he’d miss his target sometimes. The guy did not care about his body, and that could be a result into how he handled his mental health. He’s still struggling to stay out of trouble even to this day. Taking all these facts into consideration, I’m confident that that will never be another Jeff Hardy.

I believe Hulk Hogan could've used a lariat as a finisher, it would've worked.

The diving headbutt was also a finisher for Dynamite Kid and Bam Bam Bigelow .

Stone Cold Stunner is iconic move

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3:57 props for Riddle taking the pedigree so beautifully. So many wrestlers put a knee or hand down to take the fall.

meanwhile Sabu walks in, points to the sky and says nothing.

I agree with Hogan. He should have used a sleeper, clothesline or full Nelson which would have incorporated his “pythons”

Next up. 10 wrestlers who regret wrestling cause it hurts

Any move from height is amazing to watch but they don't call them high risk for nothing .

Undertaker is the master of Tombstone Piledriver move

And this is why wrestlers deserve life long insurance.

Brock Lesnar Doing The Shooting Star Press At Wrestlemania 19 led to him almost breaking his neck this isn't the first time we see Brock Lesnar Doing A Shooting Star Press he actually did the move back in his OVW Days where he actually landed the move perfect

The Undertakers knee issues are apparent. Everyone has some kind of problem and his is that you always see him limping backstage. In the mid-late noughties, he'd always drag someone out on the apron and punch/kick them a little before climbing up and doing a leg drop. He'd also get whipped into the ring steps A LOT and he ALWAYS went knees first. All of that is on top of the in ring leg drops and all the tombstones he gave throughout his career

Bobby Eaton made the diving leg drop famous. The Alabama Jam.

Yeah bc Chris killing his family wasn't enough, we need Daniel to talk about it🤣 geez dude

Which is why Jim Cornette says wrestlers pre-1990s took fewer bumps. Rings are hard. 20 years is about all the body can take.

Triple H doing pedigree move damaged both his knee plenty of times

I thought the Seth Rollins head stomp would be number 1

The RKO seems like a pretty standard back bump. I feel like most wrestlers take bigger bumps than that regularly throughout their matches.

With Austin, he's lucky he doesn't have tailbone and pelvis displacement. My father ended up with that from being a traveling salesman, driving for hours and hours each day. Always having a wallet filled with business cards that he kept in his back pocket. Sitting that much unevenly caused his tailbone and pelvis to re-position through the years and now he deals with extreme daily pains where the only time he has any issues from it is if he's standing up. Being almost 70 with bad knees, you can imagine it's not much fun.

What gets me with the shooting star press and similar moves, when the person taking it puts their knees up to counter. I cringe every damn time. Makes an already dangerous move a thousand times more dangerous.

Willie Nelson should update his song "Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys" song to be about wrestling. It's bad for your health

If I was ever a professional wrestler, (which I wouldn’t want to, due to the fact I could easily get injured.) My choices for my finishing moves would be in order of safest for each style. For highflying, the second rope 630 senton. For striking, either Spinning heel kick (Black Mass) or the punt kick. For powerhouse, arm trap piledriver. For technician, either the stunt rider stretch, or the original Neutralizer. What do you people think.

The Diving Headbutt was been used by other wrestlers the likes of Chris Benoit Daniel Bryan

The Spanish Fly Both Wrestlers take a huge amount of damage doing this move.

Diving Headbutt...

10 finishers WWE wrestlers regret doing some of the most legendary finishers of all time.. that’s why these guys are appreciated so much differently

"I had scoliosis, brother!" He made *that* sound funny...

The rock taking the stunner is a beautiful thing...no one made it look as good as the rock

This is why having a submission alternative finisher should be typical. No, they're not as exciting, but you gotta admit, The Sharpshooter, Crippler Crossface, Texas Cloverleaf, Figure-4, Scorpion Deathlock, Camel Clutch, etc. made for some iconic finishes.

Eddie Guererro made Frog Splash move famous . RIP

2:07 I mean he used the Stunner on the President so of course it's Legendary.

I forgot to find out what the rko felt like.

The Diving Headbutt.

Spoiler: It’s not just wrestling. If you do anything repeatedly for years, or decades it probably going to cause you some problems.

The Stone Cold Stunner and RKO are basically the same move

"I had scoliosis brother" 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Love this channel

Was expecting the spiral tap too. Mentioning dynamite kid on the swandive also.

To be honest, I was impressed that Logan Paul held onto the phone.

2:15 that’s me with the “It’s my birthday” sign, proud to have made it into one of your videos!

Taker using the hells gate as his finisher for awhile was the the result of years of doing the tombstone. I remember wrestlers actually bleeding from the mouth to show case how devastating it was.

I figured the stunner & the tombstone would be on here cuz you falling on your knees & your butt + the diving headbutt I get scared when Bryan Danielson be using it but anyway really good video.

I think among out of all this move sets, the best iteration is the RKO/cutter and the frogsplash... This both have aged liked fine wines when you least expect it, frogaplash being more height than ever in execution while rko/diamond cutter is pretty good in terms execution.. the rest can go really..

So much pain for such a boring finisher - leg drop

Yeah, having to take repeated bumps on joints or your spine will inevitably mess you up, especially when doing it multiple times every single week for years on end.

Hogan could've used a clothesline from hell, I mean, it would've been more credible of a finisher than the legdrop since as he said in all his promos that he's got the largest pythons in the world. Also, didn't realize the RKO was one of the culprits for Randy's back issues, but I get it. Although, his first finisher, the overdrive was also causing him pain, so either it really is just the RKO or that Orton is just injury prone. I mean, others like DDP who uses basically the same move doesn't complain. Sure he doesn't jump, but hitting the mat could still cause back pains. And if maybe Jeff used a different finisher or wasn't a highflyer, since he uses the twist of fate which is also a cutter variation, we could know if the RKO truly is a somewhat injury causing move. Btw, aside from the clothesline from hell, I think Hogan could also have used a masterlock, camel clutch, an AA/FU (firemans carry variation), or could've used an armpit choke and then DDT. The setup for that would be Hogan would lock the guy's head in the initial form of the DDT with the head locked in the armpit area, then just waiting for about 5-10seconds kayefabe the guy would just stop wriggling faking passing out, then he'd DDT the guy while fake passed out then pin. I mean if Brock and Cena takes a while to keep their opponents over their shoulders, same with Goldberg holding the guys high for about 3-5 seconds, then why not Hogan holding a guy under his pits for 5-10 seconds then delivering a DDT once passed out, that would be more realistic than a guy getting pinned for 3 seconds after a basic legdrop

As someone with kneeproblems (and I am still in my 20s) I always wheez a bit when I see the tombstone piledriver and other moves that require the whole bodyweight to drop on the knees. Cant imagine the pain some of them go though at times for our entertainment. Wrestlers deserve so much more respect than they get.

A smart wrestler would find a Good finisher that won't give him surgery's problems in the future. One smart man Was the Rock..

I love how everyone is going "i never understood how he could do that without being hurt". The answer is they never did, they just stfu about it

6:26 Jeff was one crazy dude that gave zero shits

“The flying headbutt can cause CTE and brain trauma over time” Chris Benoit: ‘YOU DON’T SAY?!”

The stunner was a great finisher because it really allowed for the other person to sell the move. Some of those guys that took it, could then vault themselves into the air and it really looked impactful. Look at around 2:07. That is how you sell a move. Most other finishers, the person taking the bump are "out" and can't help sell the impact very much.

I can believe most of these, but I would have never thought of the leg drop being that dangerous. The Swanton Bomb doesn't look that dangerous... until you see all the places he does it from, and then you understand.

Hogan had the Axe Bomber Clothesline from his days in Japan in his arsenal I don’t know why he didn’t just switch to that later on. Fans would of understood.

Moves such as Chokeslam and Sweet Chin music are popular, while also very safe for the performer himself.

The butt ripper Xpac

That was a good selling of the stunner by Big Show

i thought this video was WWE Finishes, you should do a video of match finishes that WWE regret

I used to love to watch Billy Kidman wrestle. I never knew he messed up the shooting star Press so badly one time

👍 welcome back original host guy

hulk hogan’s leg drop

I remember Kidman was injuring people with his Shooting Star Press because his knees kept hitting his opponent and later Vince banned the move for awhile...

Some of the things I knew about and other things I didn't know about wrestling finishing moves

This is why the stinkface is my favorite maneuver. Especially if it's done by someone like Mandy Rose.

You would of thought Randy's RKO would of hurt his shoulders more than his back considering where his opponent's head is landing and how his head is positioned. I honestly thought that the RKO was the reason why Randy has hypermobile shoulders now

Dude with the tombstone and the pedigree I've always worried about the head, I didn't even think about the knees.

Hogan ain't lying this time, I once did a leg drop one time when I got into a fight and no joke, it's aggravates your spine and back.

That leg drop from the top of a cage is gruesome sheesh matt

It's crazy how being safe for your opponent is actually a toll on yourself. That's true work ethic

That's why The Rock was so smart. He has 2 entertaining finishers in which it barely hurts him at all haha. I think the chokeslam is probably the best for the guy delivering it. But if wrestling didn't have guys like Hardy and benoit using finishers that put their body on the line so much, wrestling would never be as big as it is today

Hogan said he'd use the sleeper as a finish because that's the only other wrestling hold he knows.

i cant believe the mandible claw didnt make this list, i mean that thing must have been Crippling to Mankind. . .

6:10 Roman tells Logan that he is still a live 😂

5 star frog splash, Swanton bomb, PURELY ICONIC

Some of those high flying ones are dangerous, but I would seriously consider doing those over the ones where it’s a precise and repetitive shock to the same exact area.

Watching this list just me see how many current WWE wrestlers will be hurting in the future, Carmelo Hayes with his leg drop is a perfect example. Bronson Reed will need to change that splash to protect his knees from being jello in a few years.

I always thought the classic DDT was awesome. Also the spine buster

Blocks SSP was only bad there because of the distance. Honestly, he did much better at it than others of his class would have.

That shooting star from Brock in OVW was BEAUTIFUL

ugh watching Lesner land on his head made me recoil 😂 that’s still brutal to see

Melo Hayes does that flying leg drop .

the flying headbutt. who the hell thought that would be fun!!!

The Five star frog splash always looked more painfull to Rob than his oponents