 What's good Josh, we're all back again with another video, so we're gonna check out WWE finishers that had to be instantly changed. Now, a wrestler's finisher is supposed to be devastating, supposed to be impactful when someone hits their finisher. You're supposed to know or have that feeling the match is over. This looks believable. It looks like it would knock someone out. And that's what a good finisher should consist of. But sometimes a finisher can be too dangerous to the point where it may have to be modified or changed, so that way the wrestler that's taking the finisher doesn't actually end up getting seriously hurt or injured or even worse. So we're gonna check this out. Should be an interesting one by WrestleMania. Appreciate all love and support. Let's get right into this one, man. A finisher is supposed to be more than just a move that ends a match. It's a manoeuvre that also drives home a wrestler's character and defines their legacy. While fans love iconic finishes such as the stone cold stunner or the rock bottom, there are superstars of the past and present who have used less than stellar maneuvers to get the three count. However, there seem to be good reason as to why these superstars changed up their finishers. Join us now as WrestleMania looks at nine WWE finishers that had to be changed immediately. Be sure to subscribe and hit that notification bell for daily wrestling videos and follow us on Facebook for exclusive news. Also, check out our new website, wrestleramia.com. Hideo Atami slash Kenta go to sleep. The GTS is one of the most infamous moves in pro wrestling. Why? Because of Mr. Cole to personality himself, CM Punk single-handedly made the finisher famous thanks to his time in WWE. However, a Japanese wrestler named Kenta was the man who invented the GTS. Before his WWE run as Hideo Atami, Kenta was one of the hottest Japanese wrestlers on the indie circuit thanks to classic matches against legends such as Mitsuhara Masawa. That iconic feud saw the birth of the GTS and it's become a well-known finisher for the New Japan Star. But fast forward to 2014 and Kenta signed an NXT contract. By this time, CM Punk was gone from the company, so it wasn't a surprise that WWE officials weren't keen on him using the GTS because it reminded him of CM Punk. However, as time passed, Triple A built anticipation for the move until he finally hit it on Austin Aries at NXT Takeover Brooklyn too. Since then, that became a staple part of Atami's finisher until he moved up to the main roster. He hit Brian Kendrick once with the GTS and that was it. Kendrick suffered a broken orbital bone and he was never allowed to use the GTS again. Brian Kendrick recalled the incident during his appearance on Highspots Virtual Gimmick Table Show and made it clear that Atami was very apologetic following the incident. However, that didn't matter to WWE officials. For four years, he was banned from using the very move that he invented until he left WWE in 2017. And Kenta hasn't been shy about his time with the company, with the New Japan Star even stating that the worst experience he's dealt with in the wrestling business was being banned from using the very move he created. Number two, Sumo Yeah, that sucks. That really does suck. Being banned from using a move that you created, especially, you know, you know, just creating a move that, you know, it just looks brutal, devastating, and it's very popular. Obviously, it's not popular because of you. It's popular because of somebody else. But still, that sucks. I know that probably rubbed them the wrong way. It's unfortunate. Obviously, he wasn't trying to injure Bryan Kendrick. But in, you know, WWE, they're very, you know, strict on certain stuff, especially if someone gets injured. Even if it obviously is not on purpose, they're going to be, you know, like, you probably shouldn't be using that move anymore. So it's unfortunate. But that's how, you know, I don't know if they're like that now. I'm willing to bet. I'm sure they're probably very protective of certain moves if it injures people that they don't want them to use on a regular. So for Joe Muscle Buster, speaking of ban moves, the Muscle Buster and Smoha Joe are synonymous with one another. The Smoha and submission machine has won numerous battles with the finisher, including his unforgettable TNA World title win against Kurt Angle at lockdown 2008. Joe continued to use the Muscle Buster when he signed with WWE in 2015, but then a freak accident that ended Tyson Kidd's career with the Muscle Buster on the ban list. In June of 2015, Kidd and Joe had a dark match and Joe used his signature Muscle Buster finisher. Kidd suffered a severe neck injury, immediately went to surgery. Thankfully, the former WWE star made a miraculous recovery, as this was a life-threatening injury that only 5% of people survived. Joe did use the Muscle Buster on several occasions following the scary incident, including feuds against Finn Balor and Shinsuke Nakamura. However, Joe's go-to finisher became the Kokina Clutch, which still worked out for the former WWE star, but wasn't as dynamic or devastating as the Muscle Buster. Chris Jericho, Lion Tamer The Lion Salt and the Lion Tamer have been in Chris Jericho's arsenal for decades, then time passed on. The Lion Tamer slowly transitioned to a simple busting crab that was labeled as the Walls of Jericho. A Jericho's Lion Tamer was never banned as he would bust out the original submission move here and there during his WWE run. However, according to the former WWE champion himself, the move was harder to use on larger opponents, which is why he opted for the Boston Crab instead. Chris Jericho was a huge fixture in WCW's Cruiserweight division, so he didn't particularly run into that issue much there. It's understandable why Jericho had to change his moveset in order to suit the bigger men in WWE, even if that change was just a glorified version of the Boston Crab. Chris Jericho, Lion Tamer He wasn't as a veteran in the WWE, having a career that has spanned over many eras. His RKO is one of the most widely known wrestling moves ever. It's a devastating finisher that has had a number of variations over the years. However, for a brief time, Orton used an even more devastating finisher, a finisher that was considered incredibly brutal. Orton did however manage to get the finisher back but made sure the move was now safe enough to use on the likes of Ric Flair and Shawn Michaels as the consequences of the move going wrong could lead to severe damage. Dean Ambrose I hope he starts utilizing it. I think it's more of a move that works when he's a heel. As a babyface, yeah he can still use it but it works better as a heel because you're trying to legitimately give someone CTE and try to end their career. It's a move that once you get hit with it, you shouldn't be around on television for a while. You got concussed. Per move, you got concussed. Got hit with the CTE at its finest. So I think if he does bring it back, it needs to be when he's a heel trying to destroy a babyface or whatever the case may be. It was Daddy Deeds. Dean Ambrose was always an interesting cast in the WWE. The former WWE champion made an immediate impact by debuting alongside Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins during the main event of Survivor Series 2012. Ambrose's moveset perfectly fit with his character, a scrappy and crazed pitbull who was a furthest thing from a clean fighter. So when he used the original Daddy Deeds, a headlock driver, it was a rather simple finisher that fits into his personality and it even looked devastating. But over time, Daddy Deeds turned into a simple underhooked DDT. On one hand, it was a nice homage to Mick Foley, the man that he was originally supposed to feud with in his WWE debut. But why did it change? Well, blame Randy Orton or at least his height. As in an interview with Fightful, Ambrose mentioned, the headlock driver is awesome if you've got the right guy doing it to the right guy. It can be the nastiest, coldest pile driver looking thing in the world or if the guy is taller than you, which so many of the guys in the WWE were taller than me, it can just be really awkward and stupid looking. I think I gave it to Randy Orton one time who is someone with a significant height advantage on me. It was just awkward. I was like, that's it. I'm switching. So that's why he switched it up. Now it makes sense. Because I was wondering why he had switched it up. And then he just went with a double arm drag DDT, which in my opinion, it's like, because DDTs are like nowadays back in the day, they used to be like impactful. And you would believe it would finish an opponent nowadays. Everybody uses it. It's like a damn near setup move. So when he switched it, I was like, if the other one made sense, because he's kind of leading in with the person's head, this one is just like, I mean, they tried to make it work as best they could. I prefer his original one. But it makes sense if someone's taller than you and there's a lot of tall guys in WWE. It would kind of look a little bit weird. Kevin Owens pop up power bomb. One of the most memorable debuts in NXT was Kevin Owens' shocking heel turn after Sami Zayn's big win for the NXT Championship. Owens power bomb Zayn onto the apron and there was a legitimate concern that the newly crowned NXT champion was injured. So good power bomb was built up as an extremely devastating finisher that has put several names on the injured list, including John Cena, Daniel Bryan and Shane McMahon. That's presumably why it had been moved to a signature move instead. The stunner worked perfectly for Stone Cold Steve Austin and though Owens performs the move correctly, it never looks as dangerous or devastating as a power bomb. That finisher was not just a great looking move, but it effectively put Owens as a credible main eventer. Hopefully it gets the spotlight as his primary finisher again. Yeah, I hope so. Bring it back, but in sparingly. But I think it most likely works once again, him as a heel because you have to really want to end somebody by picking them up and throwing them spine first into the edge of the ring. So right now, he's a babyface. If you turn them heel and have them go rogue on someone and do that to someone, I think you can make that work. Once again, some of these finisher signatures, whatever you want to call them, it depends on if you're a heel or not, where it makes sense to do some of these moves, if that makes any sense. in 2018. Every now and then, Ricochet will pull out an old indie such as a double moonsault in 2018's NXT Wargames. Ricochet's standard finisher is a 630, but the double moonsault was typically his normal finisher on the indie scene. That move by itself is simply a thing of beauty and a flashier and more impressive maneuver than the 630. However, Ricochet mentioned in an interview with Chris Van Vleet that he simply doesn't want to do the move anymore due to its risky nature. Honestly, probably only the double moonsault maybe and that's not even, honestly, I could probably still do it if I wanted to, but I don't want to. I don't want to. I did it off the cage. I would have actually taken some time to practice, really practice, because it's just one of those that's not used often. I was just asked the other day when was the last time I even did it. I couldn't tell you the last time that I did the double moonsault. I don't know, other than the one off on the cage at NXT, before that even like in the ring man, I couldn't tell you. Number eight, Seth. I love that move, by the way. Such a beautiful move today. If he wants to pull back on it and he doesn't want to risk it as much, hey man, who am I to tell him? It's a beautiful move. If he does pull it out once for every full moon, cool. If he doesn't, it's fine. Ricochet is a very talented wrestler, very talented individual, and he has plenty of other moves and high flying acrobatics that you can enjoy, even if he doesn't pull that out. So Rollins, Curbstomp. Oh, yeah. That awkward period when WWE stripped Seth Rollins of the Curbstomp, reportedly Vince McMahon opted to ban the move because he felt that young children could easily imitate the finisher. While so was banned for some time, the Curbstomp is perfect for Rollins. It was a nice tool for him as a cowardly heel as he could easily come out of nowhere and nail his finisher. It was also an effective finisher for him as a babyface because the stomp always looks so devastating and cool. And number nine, Triple H. Yeah. And then they brought it back anyway. They just don't call it the Curbstomp. They just call it the stomp now. They literally brought it back because at one point he was using a Triple H pedigree, which is like, we know, you know, Triple H is mentored on this other stuff. He was using that for a while, but they brought it back. They brought the stomp back. It's just not Curbstomp. It's just stomp now. So it works. It now it works for him as a babyface. It works for him as a babyface though. But back then, I loved him. When he was first using it and they called it the Curbstomp, I thought it fit him perfectly. It was great. Original pedigree. Triple H's mastery of the pedigree has earned him numerous victories and accolades throughout his WWE career. It has become synonymous with his name and has solidified his place as one of the all-time greats in pro wrestling. However, the pedigree we saw throughout his late years in WWE was completely different to the one he used during the start. Fans got a glimpse of this devastating version of the move when he wrestled Marty Garner on WWE Superstars. Rather than just release the whole body on top of the mat after underhooking the wrestler's arms, Triple H would devastatingly spiked the head right into the mat and subsequently injured his neck. Triple H had then since changed the move and it worked in his favor as some of the guys in WWE were huge and there's no way that he could have spiked pile-dried them right on their head. But they have it folks. Nine finish. He had to change it. It made sense. There was no way. Hell no. Super dangerous too. But it worked out in the end and pedigree is one of the most anonymous finishers literally of all time. So comment down below. Let me know what's your favorite wrestling finisher of all time. Doesn't matter what company. Doesn't matter what era of wrestling. Let me know your favorite finisher when you saw it. You just knew damn that person is done for. The match is over. Or you just thought it looked cool and devastating. Let me know down below. 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