The Top Ten Moves of Dean Malenko

[1989ECW]

he is a fucking legend

[V3GA7]

That was not a Tombstone Piledriver....

[mmscott9]

His avalanche double arm gutbuster was boss

[OHVImedia]

WWE Hall of Fame!!!

[MrEVlL]

He did a tombstone in WCW. But that was a reverse Pancake.

[MrEVlL]

He was so miss used in the WWE. He did the Tombstone Piledriver better than anyone in the history of the WWE, even the over-rated has-been Undertaker.

[Whyisthisthat]

The Jackhammer off the top rope and the crossface should be on the list

+ why is all this footage from japan?

[Suriel1981]

@Whyisthisthat SuicidalDragon usually uses puroresu footage for copyright reasons - the Japanese (and Mexican, to an extent) promotions don't seem to care if fans use classic footage on YouTube whereas American companies always put in complaints and get videos taken down and uploaders banned.

[rickyscream101]

Where's the gut busters??

[johnnyd872005]

That Tombstone looked more like an inverted belly to belly slam. Lol.

[bigfloridapimp]

Must have been grueling combing through 1,000 moves and slimming that down to 10.

[Lillibulero1]

What's the name of the wrestler Malenko is fighting for the Dropkick to the Knee and Figure 4 Leglock bits? He looks dark!

[TheSuicidalDragon]

Jushin "Thunder" Lyger

[TheMrProtocol]

@TheSuicidalDragon I like watching your series on different wrestlers. However, I'd like to ask, why didn't you include his top rope gut buster?

[TheSuicidalDragon]

No usable footage, unfortunately.

[RunsleazyTV]

That's one Tall midget that made it BIG

[MobKnowledge]

That's one Top Ten Moves of Dean Malenko video; only 99 compilations left to go then you'll have his whole moveset.

[toadman842]

I like him, but he's a midget, LOL. What is he legit, 5'6''?

[curtisjones400]

@toadman842 Dean Malenko is a real wrestlor he as like 1,000 moves-these guys today on the WWE or not real wrestlors they are just well conditioned athletics-Randy Savage's only move was jumping off the top rope-which is not wrestling-Hulk Hogans only move was a leg drop-Dean Malenko is a true wrestlor-if anyone wants to learn anything about real wresting watch Dean Malenko matches-he is the man of 1,000 moves

[robertocarlosibarra]

Love that Texas Cloverleaf

[Amy4000]

German Suplex Hold! O.O

[easterndragon9x]

one of the most technical wrestler of all time. :)

[TheOnlyCobraman]

Dean is one of my wrestling hero's and he is who i want to be like we i get into the wrestling world

[ozboybrian]

That wasn't a Tombstone piledriver.

[enigma2488]

Did yall know that he once ranked number 1 in PWI 500?

[SamuraiGhost63]

Nooooooooo I was hoping for a Fireman's Carry Gutbuster in there

[Greysockmadman]

Not to mention before his neck surgery he was known for having a beautiful Northern Lights Suplex, arguably better than Hase's.

[harrisonandreed]

Where's the Gutbuster???

[blair1992]

Holy shit, that German Suplex Hold is just flawless <3

[DemonKingMMA]

As fun as Dean Malenko is to watch. He should've been a shoot fighter. 

[Jontish316]

Goldberg said he (Malenko) invented the Jackhammer, would you know if that's true?

[TheSuicidalDragon]

Jaguar Yokota invented the Jackhammer, actually.

[iknowme]

@TheSuicidalDragon He didn't say Malenko invented it, but he did say Malenko used to do it (in Japan, I think) from the top rope. Have you ever seen this?

[V3GA7]

@Jontish316 Dean Malenko did the Jackhammer first, yeah, but he did it from the turnbuckle. Goldberg was the first who did it in the middle of the ring with pure strength. but its true, he saw Malenko doin it n said: "oh yeah I like that"

[Gambling93]

Those suplex's were sublime.

[barbwirelove]

idk if that was the best, or worst tombstone ever

[ChubberGlump]

Sorry you are missing a brainbuster, gutbuster, and flying leg lariat. He used those way more than he ever did things like a tombstone or flying crossbody...

[aknfjoshmiller]

No calf-kick? I saw him do that way more times than that powerbomb. or that "tombstone"

[kingmula2]

I'd love to train with him

[curtisjones400]

DEAN MALENKO IS A GREAT AND REAL WRESTLER HE IS AWESOME-THESE GUYS TODAY IN THE WWE ARE NOT REAL WRESTLERS THEY ARE A JOKE

[Sh3llshock361]

Dean Malenko was a straight up B E A S T! Insanely innovative

[1009cwill]

no. suicidal. he IS the most underrated wrestler of all time!!!

[miamimagicians]

@SERGEIwrecked Never had a dull match, could work with anyone! Never really got the break he deserved but always very well respected! He was the Kurt Angle of the 90's!

[DualEagles88]

man of 1000 holds

[bamjungle]

@DualEagles88 Right on! too many to put on one vid. Dean was the man.

[achromat666]

I was the backlash PPV years ago when Dean did a top rope DDT on Scott Taylor (Scotty 2 Hotty). It was pretty amazing.

[lavelessive]

he really was a talent

[Thebadguy1987]

One of the best if not the best technical wrestler wcw ever saw.....

[PJCarra93]

worst tombstone ever

[Fucklenuts]

It was a joy to watch Malenko perform; his work against Benoit in WCW was a great display of technical skill, and I wish we had gotten the chance to see him work versus Bret Hart in Hart's glory days. Malenko had all the in-ring tools, but his mic skills and size are what kept him from top-tier status IMO.

[Thebadguy1987]

@Fucklenuts Check out his matches with Ultimo Dragon, even in japan they had some great if not their greatest matches ever.Their ppv match when Ultimo took the Cruiserweight title was one of legend.

[Stormstallion]

@Thebadguy1987 Their follow-up match at Clash of Champions, when Malenko re-gained the Cruiserweight crown, is arguably just as good as well. I think it's a shame he didn't get more recognition or title runs. He probably should have held the U.S. Title at least one more time, while in WCW. Despite him being a favorite, I don't think he would have done well with a world title run, but I think he'd have made a good challenger for it.

[Thebadguy1987]

@Stormstallion Yes i saw that one..I agree about Dean holding the U.S strap...

[miamimagicians]

@Fucklenuts Sad but true, if he was only 3 inches taller, and had a catchphrase... But he paved the way for the likes of Bryan Danielson, Rey etc.

[KaanNacar]

I think it isn't a Tiger Driver.It is sit-out double underhook powerbomb.

[TheSuicidalDragon]

That's what a Tiger Driver is.

[luminafire]

@TheSuicidalDragon That's a tiger powerbomb. A Tiger driver looks similar but it ends up with a straight up piledriver. It's similar to Triple H's botched pedigree-- dangerous move. The move in this vid is definitely a tiger powerbomb and not a tiger driver.

[luminafire]

@TheSuicidalDragon I withdraw my comment, I was mistaken.

[Jallandhara]

@TheSuicidalDragon Thanks for Eddie G, the best worker in history (Shawn Michaels is a distant second.)

[jasall18]

1:23 Tombstone powerslam

[TheWrestlerNation]

flying body press is just a crossbody isn't it?

[TNAWres1ing]

R.I.P. Malenko

[KJCrush]

@TNAWres1ing ...Deans not dead...

[TheWrestlerNation]

@TNAWres1ing ?? hes not dead, he had a heart attack recently and is expected to heal from it

[yungmurda86]

10 people tapped out to the Texas cloverleaf

[JimScythe]

Great choices. The man really seemed to have all those moves the 1,000 and all. But you really did the best of the best!!

[gargrimm]

Malenko was always my farorite always a great15-60 minute match they used him & we suffered

[luchador1764]

should have made #1 just the entire fact that he can actually wrestle.

[jericho696969]

I was unfortunate enough to only see Dean Malenko's appearences in the WWF where he remained at a pathertic mid-card status. Back then, I couldn't stand him. I thought he was increadibly boring & his James Bond persona was aweful.

It wasn't until years later did I realise that he had phenominal technical abilities and was nowhere near used to his full potential.

To make things worse, the main Championship holder back then was "The Man of 5 Moves" HHH.

What a waste of great talent.

[CRAKADAKS]

The man of a thousand moves, Malenko a true great in my eyes.

[Chuloloc]

Awesome. Dean Malenko is wrestling.

[TheJacobJ]

That wasn't as much as a tombstone piledriver where as it was more like a tombstone body slam.

[Gameomg]

That's not a tombstone pildriver... that's not even a piledriver!

[99bleeder]

@koalajones88 haha i agree on that but that would be one badass accountant can u imagine him ccrunhcing numbers than snap suplexing his boss on a fuckin table that would be Epic!!!!!

[gorgeousaur]

@99bleeder "Uh Dean, you forgot to file the new guy's W2s along with his other paperwork."

"I found it behind my desk, so I left it with your secretary earlier THIS MORNING!"

*german suplex!*

or

"Dean, what happened during the meeting with the representatives from BMW?"

"Sorry, I thought I sealed the deal with the flying dropkick off the watercooler, but he caught me and powerbomb-pinned me."

[99bleeder]

@gorgeousaur LMFAO that woud be epic!!!! for sure.hahahaha

[sanket527]

i use both his finishers tiger bomb and texas cloverleaf as my created superstarsfinishing move in svr games.

[earthhelll]

was that actually tombstone PileDriver lmfao...

[MadMax111000]

why don't they use the snap suplex in wwe anymore?

[MadMax111000]

why don't they use the snap suplex in wwe anymore?

[JMac73088]

Although it was WCW I remember seeing Dean Maleko vs Chris Beniot in a great match up.....That was the most technicaly gifted match i've seen......Dean Maleko might not be a hall of famer but he won't be forgotten

[Roodsteam]

CZW CZW CZW 

[vitaminization]

Dean - один из лучших!

[DizMojo]

watch?v=nDvJeX-vZpo

[DizMojo]

I found a usable gutbuster video

[kingjoshthe1st]

One of my favorite pro wrestlers when I watch the WCW when I was a kid

[Airhammer50]

THANK YOU !!!!!! One of my FAVORITE wrestlers of ALL TIME..

[WhtMike2006]

He had a great brainbuster too!

[azrielseclements]

The only man rated number 1 on the PWI 500 to never win a world heavyweight title...what is the world coming to? lol

[egg64]

@azrielseclements LOL, he wasnt a heavyweight though....he was a light-heavy, he also wasnt that tall.....like 5'7-5'6......so he was in an odd position....you dont see many guys that small in the business be a technical/mat wrestler.....except for maybe Brian Danielson.

[azrielseclements]

@egg64 well it depends, I mean a light-heavyweight would be somebody under 230lbs. HBK, Angle & AJ Styles remain under 230lbs (Angle went from 220 to 240 & back down to 220). Styles may be taller than Malenko, but they were roughly the same weight.

[egg64]

@azrielseclements All true.

[fede9607]

I dont know if its a tombstone piledriver, it looks that a slam not a pileverder

[LordBarros]

@fede9607 Was thinking the same thing. A piledriver doesn't put someone on their belly.

[3089280288]

Doesn't he have a wrestling school?

[lukeThug]

deans a legend

[mmabuff101]

man i need to see more of malenko in japan

[FUCKULUKEFITZGERALD]

Uuuh, you didnt put the avalanche gutbuster on there...... Just kidding, great vid, great wrestler

[VandalV]

The Man of 1000 Holds!

[UCERAHB]

im really surprised Malenko has never won a major world title

[Anndgrim]

WTF! This is not a Tombstone Piledriver.

[Mattography28]

@Anndgrim It was a failed attempt one, he does do it correctly normally though.

[FUCKULUKEFITZGERALD]

Lots of people do the move that way, for instance Jushin Liger

[vegetarko09]

You forgot to include the avalanche gutbuster.

[TheSuicidalDragon]

There's no usable footage of it.

[CerebralAssassins]

@TheSuicidalDragon He did it to Rey in all their matches iirc. Clash of the Champions/Halloween Havoc 96.

[Carlitonsp1]

I feel really sorry for Dean, Two of his Best Friends died in very close succession and Perry Saturn has been missing for a while and is assumed by many to be dead.

[fsfslehqi]

@Carlitonsp1: Perry Saturn got 3 gunshots to the back of the neck from point-blank range in 2004 , while trying to save a woman from being raped.

He (Saturn) has 3 nails in his neck today , and can never ever wrestle again. Malenko is 50 years old and i don't think hell ever return , too

[leroy592]

@fsfslehqi I didn't know Perry Saturn had been shot! It is unfortunate that Malenko lost his two best friends such close succession. Too bad Benoit and Malenko didn't get a bigger push in WCW as Horsemen.

[fsfslehqi]

Saturn is assumed dead because he never attends funerals of dead wrestlers like Chris Candido.....it's a means of humiliating him

[CadillacL]

I totally agree that Dean is under-rated. No doubt one of the GREATEST tech.wrestlers.

[dmuse1981]

great vid dean 4 hall of fame!

[silencer6]

Wish someone would take over the Texas Cloverleaf, like how Angle took over KEN SHAMROCKS ANKLELOCK.

[FUCKULUKEFITZGERALD]

Lots of people do the move

[SleepwalkerGM]

i remember how he turneda superplex into a super ddt on backalsh 00 against scotty 2 hotty, man that looked painful

[dhuggz]

Malenko vs Guererro matches were legendary.

[Rnkawa]

Seriously you have forgotten all the innovative moves he s created and well they are the top ones: the Jacknife Suplex from the Top Rope (circa 1995) - Goldberg admits he took it from Dean, the Firemancarry gutbuster from the top rope (against Rey Misterio in 1997 for instance) and the backbreaker turned into a submission

[TheSuicidalDragon]

Malenko didn't create the Jackhammer, Jaguar Yokota did.

And as I've said several times already, there's no usable footage of the Gutbuster.

[WhtMike2006]

@TheSuicidalDragon Yes but Goldberg didn't know about Jaguar and did use the move after Dean showed it to him.

[Elreypachuco]

That was an awesome suplex at :51.. and that Tiger Driver at 1:33 used to be Ahmad Johnson's finishing move.

[baronofbefoulment]

I didn't know Detective John McClane from Die Hard was a wrestler.

[sadmonsterclub]

Surprised not to see his brainbuster and insane top rope gutbuster in here. Rights issues?

[TheSuicidalDragon]

Exactly.

[SnowDog0]

Is there Youtube video of all of Dean Malenko's Moves?

[Thumper17]

Didn't he used to do a brainbuster?

[RIPEGGL]

yep

[Takerfanatic93]

Malenko had once a 4* Match with Scotty 2 Hotty...i think that says all. He was one of the best and there werent too many Workers who could go hold for hold with the Iceman!

[jdshadle]

How about the jumping calf kick?

[poisongodmachine3]

Tombstone Piledriver was actually a Tombstone Slam

[Phillycursed]

yeah that tombstone was kinda like how DDP would pick people up and sorta press slam em down

[aglewi41]

didnt he use to do a jackhammer from the top rope.

[Superplex1001]

According to Goldberg, but I've never seen Malenko do one.

[doomsayer54]

1:24 was not a tombstone

[AlexShelleyMCMG]

@doomsayer54 it was a tombstone but a tombstone slam, not a piledriver

[bushwhacked59]

What about Dean Malenko's gut buster from having his oponent on his shoulders and throwing them over his head onto his knee. I always thought that was classic when he would do that from the top rope!

[TheSuicidalDragon]

Once again, there's no usable footage of it.

[aks73]

i always loved dean's matches he was a superb wrestler. one of the smoothest guys in the ring ever.

[PCJ27imagination]

not to mention, he and Eddie were one of the key reasons for bringing crusierweight wrestling in North America.

[ECWExtremeMoments]

not really mil mascaras and many other luchadors and japanese luchadors were the key reasons

[12345enterhit]

you dont have any of his WCW stuff its all stuff from japan

[TheSuicidalDragon]

I don't use WWE owned footage.

[ECWExtremeMoments]

why would someone put fake american wrestling?!

[TheSuicidalDragon]

All pro wrestling is scripted.

[ECWExtremeMoments]

dude i was meaning in the 70's to 90's in mexico they never speak they just wrestle they only announce them.

[pedrokid77]

one of the most underrated wrestlers of all time.

[buckykit]

@pedrokid77 I'm not sure how many people remember but he actually made number 1 in the PWI 500 in...I can't remember which year it was but I'm thinking it was between 96 and 98. But don't take my word on the year.

[NoHayFianza]

tumba rompecuellos?

lol

[panther2552]

thanks for posting this Dean was one of my all time fav wrestlers. I loved the matches he put on in WCW. He could make anyone look good.

[judy3077]

true dat a lot of these new school wrestlers could learn a lot from the man of a 1,001 holds and thats the truth!

[Vordeo]

Man I miss Malenko. Great, great worker.

pretzels was right though, that wasn't a tombstone.

[dadankness]

In your info for this vid you see that he is one of the most underrated technical wrestlers.. thats horrible that you say sthat.. had he staued in japan he would be underrated because he wouldnt have got to show of his skills in the states.. but we all saw the man of 1,001 holds and what he could do in WCW.. they enver limited hismoveset.. and now he has a very high position within WWE.. he is not underrated just his shit in japan is because its snorring

[TheSuicidalDragon]

Ask a good amount of wrestling fans about the Radicalz, and most of them will talk about Saturn, Benoit, Guerrero, but rarely Malenko. The man doesn't get a whole lot of credit from a good portion of wrestling fans.

[thefriendsociety]

thats because the man wasnt entertaining to a whole lot of wrestling fans. He was the bob backlund of wrestling. He came into the business at the wrong time. Even Bret Hart and Chris Benoit who arent promo masters learned to talk.

[AlexShelleyMCMG]

hey i am a fan of the radicalz and in my opinion he is the second best of theem, after saturn

[jaredbradburn]

If someone talks to you about Perry Saturn, that's how you know their crazy.

[MMADreamer]

What moves can you give to a dean malinko caw cause cloverleaf can't be made a finisher move?

[Lunacyk]

Tiger Driver and Gutbuster(either regular or off the top rope if they'll let you). Those are some moves he has used as a finisher. What game are you using?

[fuzzycuffs]

The only reason that "Dropkick to the Knee" is one of his moves is because Malenko was so small that's all he could reach when he jumped.

[ezecollie33]

LMAO

[pretzels713]

1:24 that wasnt a tombstone that was just a slam

[Lunacyk]

Eh, its a Tombstone Slam like King has in Tekken.

[postmasterw00t]

his execution is perfect

[xraycat30]

Dean Malenko is one of the most under-rated wrestlers ever!!!

[egg64]

That he is.

[egg64]

5'7" of definetive mat wrestling, lol.

[bartov]

List invalid without top rope gut buster.

[TheSuicidalDragon]

Once again, there's no usable footage of it.

[docdoom187]

HELL YES I remember that shit!

[Mistertbones]

I love how he transitions the Tiger Driver into the Cloverleaf.

[dan420956]

Dean Works Behind The Scenes At WWE. I Saw Him On An ECW House Show... He Pretended Like We Didnt Notice Him Or Maybe He Didnt Care We Was Like " Man Of A Thousand Hold's Yea!! Dean Malenko!" He Was On The Rail Where The Wrestlers Came Out.. He Didnt Care For Us. Felt Just Another Day At Work For Em.. He One Of The Greatest The 4 Horsemen Nuff Said..

[Richie2k6]

The Texas Cloervleaf is suck a beautiful move. Shame almost nobody uses it nowadays

[Gerald411]

HOF