5 Most Painful Finishers in the WWE
With every different wrestler in the WWE comes a completely different gimmick. And with every different gimmick, there’s usually a completely different finishing move that a wrestler used to score their win.
While submissions have become more of the thing in the WWE, the company is no short of powerful wrestlers going for a decisive move to score a pin on their opponents to seal their victory.
The Tombstone and the DDT of the past were probably the most dangerous and painful moves in the WWE, where the opponent’s head would be driven straight into the mat, affect both their head and their neck. However, the WWE was forced to modify the moves to ensure the safety of the wrestlers and ensure they compete for a longer time.
Similarly, today wrestlers have had to modify their moves a bit to ensure they do not cause injuries or long-term damage to their opponents, and hence it can be said that wrestling has lost its charm for the viewers a little.
Slams are now some of the most popular moves that are used by larger wrestlers but are relatively less dangerous to take and a bit less painful as the impact is distributed to a larger area. Same is the case for the over-the-shoulders moves such as the Attitude Adjustment and the F5.
With that said, there are still a few moves being used today in the WWE that seem extremely difficult to perform accurately and can be equally painful for the recipient. Here we take a look at 5 of the many finishers used by wrestlers today which seem extremely painful to take.
#5 Running Knee / Kinshasa
The running knee has been one of the favorite moves of many lightweight wrestlers. As they are unable to lift larger men on their shoulders to perform a move, a running knee does not require too much strength and can have a devastating effect.
Currently, Daniel Bryan uses the maneuver as his finisher, as he uses more of his legs to do battle rather than any powerlifting moves. Imagine a man running in with full force and driving a knee into your face. It’d hurt no matter how must control is used.
Shinsuke Nakamura uses a slightly modified version of the same move called the Kinshasa. The move is similar to the running knee, and so is the impact, but rather than just using his knee he uses the entire side of his lower leg for the finisher. The move might hurt a bit less because the force is distributed to the side of the face rather than just one place in the case of the running knee.
Even though wrestlers wear knee guards today that do cushion the impact, many wrestlers actually take off their knee guards to apply the move and ensure that they get the pin.