What is more important than a wrestler's finisher?

Well, a lot of things actually, but it's up there because you can build your entire character

around it if you are smart enough.

Think of the standard of people's elbow, the RKO, these have left sports entertainment

and peaked everybody's attention, and there's a reason for that.

A lot of wrestlers know this too, which is why even when they go through character changes,

they keep said move because it's a major asset to what they're trying to do.

Don't believe me?

Ah, well then.

I'm Simon Rock, culture please hit that subscribe button, and this is 10 WWE Finishes

left over from old gimmicks.

Number 10 The Pedigree

Have you ever wondered why Triple H's The King of Kings, the game The Cerebral Assassin

has a finisher named Pedigree?

Doesn't really fit in, does it?

And that's because these two things were never synced up.

Long before he was obsessed with sledgehammers, those three H's meant something which was

Hunter Hurst Helmsley.

He was a Greenwich blue blood and a posh ass hole, hence that name, it was a direct reference

to his privileged upbringing.

When trips aside that he wanted to take a step up though, he ditched this, but what he

did not was the pedigree.

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