Top 5 Finishers that can be hit outta nowhere

In this day and age, in the WWE, it has become quite visible that the audience prefer a WWE star that can actually perform well in the ring while backing it up off the ring as well. And as the popular motion in the WWE Universe goes, John Cena isn’t the most liked person due to his apparent “five moves of doom” and lack of uniqueness on the mic. Again, we do question as to how superstars such as Hulk Hogan, who was extraordinarily limited in the ring made it big in the WWE. And while putting his personality and charisma, there was also the fact that he had an exciting finisher to back it up. While it may not seem much now, the Leg Drop was a big deal back in the days and the crowd were always revved up as Hogan went towards doing the move.And over the years, it has become clear as to how big of an impact a finisher has. Be it Stone Cold’s Stunner or The Rock’s People’s Elbow, the audience were always fired up as a wrestler signalled towards ending the match. In which case, we have seen certain monstrous finishers with a huge reputation such as the Tombstone Piledriver and Pedigree. However, these do take their time for build-up and eventually executing the move.On the other hand, we have moves that can be seemingly done in seconds that by the time you realize what’s happening, the Superstar has delivered his finisher. And let’s take a look at the top 5 finishers that can be hit outta nowhere.

#5 Codebreaker

Chris Jericho’s original run in the WWE back in the early 2000s did not actually feature this move. It was the Walls of Jericho, Breakdown and Lionsault that he used as his finishers. However, in 2007, when he returned after a two-year hiatus from the WWE, came with him a new finisher. Essentially, it was a facebreaker performed with both the knees.

The Walls of Jericho was already an extremely popular move and adding the Codebreaker to his arsenal made his matches ever more fun. The interesting part was that, seeing as smooth and easy a manoeuvre it was, he could perform it on every person, with little effort. Given Jericho wasn’t the tallest guy, he could do it easily on bigger wrestlers, and not to mention, it was very effective in view for the audience.

And this made it one of the best moves to hit outta nowhere and take the opponent by surprise. It didn’t have any big build and could be performed just about anytime in an attempt to stun his moment and surprise the crowd.