5 best submission matches in WWE history
Submission matches are always special. In a submission match, a wrestler has to force his opponent to “tap out” or actually give up. Such matches have always featured some of the most painful and brutal submission maneuvers and make no mistake, such matches are not for the faint-hearted. Surviving or inflicting painful maneuvers is no easy task. Quite obviously, submission specialists have always enjoyed such match types.
Two submission specialists, namely Natalya and Charlotte, both submission specialists who have learned a lot from Bret Hart and Ric Flair respectively are going to face each other in a submission match for the WWE Women’s Championship. It’s not just Charlotte v Natalya; it’s the Figure-four (a variation of Ric Flair’s signature maneuver, the figure-four versus the Sharp-shooter, an heirloom of the Hart family (even though other wrestlers have used it in the past).
Here’s the best submission matches in WWE history.
Daniel Bryan vs The Miz vs John Morrison – Triple Threat Submissions Count Anywhere Match – Hell In a Cell, 2010
Daniel Bryan had already established himself as a force to reckon with. Those who followed the indy circuits were aware of his technical prowess. His feud with The Miz resumed following his return after getting fired. He defeated The Miz at Night of Champions by forcing him to tap out of the LeBell Lock (the Yes! Lock). John Morrison too got a shot at the title, which made it a a Triple Threat Submissions Count Anywhere Match.
This match had awesome written all over it. You have a submission specialist in Bryan, one of the most agile and entertaining wrestlers we’ve seen in John Morrison ,and the egoistical (The) Miz who is a good in-ring performer in his own right. This match was surely not short on action, as the fight spilled out to the stage where at one point, John Morrison lept from the lower beam of the Titantron.
Daniel Bryan won after making The Miz submit by putting him in the LeBell Lock.