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I remember Undertaker during his biker days using a dragon sleeper. The With Authority game called it the Takin Care of Business sleeper. Possibly the dumbest name of all time.

That's what they called it on TV. He used it to put Big Show out at No Way Out 2003 IIRC.

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I remember Undertaker during his biker days using a dragon sleeper. The With Authority game called it the Takin Care of Business sleeper. Possibly the dumbest name of all time.

Even worse, they called it the "Taker" Care of Business on commentary. Was gonna list that but thought that was a known one :)

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I believe DiBiase used a figure-four as a young face and the transitioned over to using the fist drop in mid south (loaded glove).

Yeah, there's an episode during the end of 81 or beginning of 82 where Roop was going on about how he taught Orndorff to counter the move and then Orndorff rolled the move over and Dibiase was holding on to not submit during the credits.

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Kane briefly using a falling powerbomb.

 

Angle using the chicken wing briefly during the Backlund mentor period.

 

Eddie's leglock was called the Lasso from El Paso.

 

The Brock Lock mixed between an awesome looking move at best to a clunky pile of shit at worst.

 

Pillman using the Octagon Special as a babyface shortly before the Horsemen run.

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Wasn't the Brock Lock just a Stretch Muffler? Maybe I'm remembering wrong. Either way, yeah. The move can look painful, but it can just as easily look lazy as shit.

 

Always dug the way Big Show would use the Cobra Clutch back breaker though, especially during that ECW run. He'd slap on the submission for a second, break guys over his knee, and then just rag-doll them across the ring like so many bags of trash. Very Titus O'Neil like. I realize some people will scoff at that comparison, but it is what it is.

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Wasn't the Brock Lock just a Stretch Muffler? Maybe I'm remembering wrong. Either way, yeah. The move can look painful, but it can just as easily look lazy as shit.

 

It was indeed, although they used the same name (Brock Lock) when he was using the bearhug as a big move after he killed Hogan with it.

 

Scott Steiner using a flatliner in WWE.

 

Test using the Roll The Dice as "The Test Drive" didn't last too long.

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- The Rock used the Shoulder Breaker for a while (that was awful).

 

- Jeff Jarrett did a Tornado Armbreaker type move briefly.

 

- Kane had that weird Clawhold for a while.

 

- Miz did a weird Reverse DDT move, it had a pretty awful name IIRC.

 

- Batista did the Rings Of Saturn for a while.

 

- Syxx used the Crossface Chickenwing in WCW briefly.

 

- Scott Steiner's version of the Flatliner - which looked awkward as hell.

 

- AJ Styles briefly used the Minoru Special.

 

- Bam Bam Bigelow used the Powerbomb during his feud with Shane Douglas in ECW.

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- Miz did a weird Reverse DDT move, it had a pretty awful name IIRC.

It was the Mizard of Oz. It's great in an ironic way. It fits the gimmick of a douche trying to be clever and failing.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ocj6ndkd66M

 

He also used the Reality Check. A knee lift transitioned immediately in a neckbreaker. I'm not a fan of "combo" moves like Jay Lethal's weird backbreaker/Flatliner move, but what made this one especially bad was instead of being one fluid motion, Miz would awkwardly pause for half a second to blindly grab his opponent's head.

 

Daniel Bryan used a guillotine choke a few times in WWE. I know he beat Drew McIntyre with it, at least. Also, not a finisher, but I wish Orton would use this move more often.

 

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