Professional wrestlers have multiple moves in their arsenal, which they perform against their opponents inside the ring, but the most important one is their finishing move, which acts as the final blow that incapacitates their competition and lays them out for the pinfall. With such huge implications, finishing moves needed to look more dominant and painful, and wrestling fans have witnessed wrestlers perform some of the most brutal finishing moves over the years.
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However, there are certain finishers that do not look visually stunning and might not have much physical impact as well. With that said, let's take a look at ten WWE finishers that makes no sense.
10 The Rear View
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The Rear View was a finishing move performed by former SmackDown Women's Champion Naomi. The execution of the move saw Naomi jumping up and hitting her opponent with her behind and knocking them down.
While it may look visually appealing, the move might not possess enough impact to be used as a finishing maneuver. It solely depends on Naomi's body weight, which might not look believable when used against larger opponents, and the fact that it doesn't require any unique technique to execute makes it less appealing as a finisher.
9 The Mandible Claw
The Mandible Claw was a finishing move used by WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley and former WWE and Universal Champion Bray Wyatt. The execution saw the wrestler sticking their fingers inside his opponent's mouth and applying pressure to the nerves in their jaw.
Theoretically speaking, the move can inflict intense pain on the opponents and make them faint or submit. But it has raised some questions as the receiver could just bite his way out of the move, but WWE never seemed to care about that detail and continued to use it as a legitimate finishing move for Foley and Wyatt.
8 Trouble In Paradise
In the older days, wrestling fans might not know how the receiver would make a finishing move look impactful while taking less impact on his body. Kofi Kingston's Trouble In Paradise is one such move that might not deliver much impact as it seems to inflict, as the receiver visibly falls to his back on his own when Kingston connects with the move.
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It's a spinning kick to the head, and while a simple standing kick might have more damage, the spinning kick would take some momentum out of the impact, and the finisher is nothing more than an eye-catcher.
7 The Lumbar Check
The Lumbar Check is a finishing move currently used by former Raw Tag Team Champion Cedric Alexander. Alexander performs the move by hoisting his opponents on his shoulder and slamming them onto his knees.
While it might look visually impressive, it doesn't look very realistic, as he cannot use it on his opponents unless they have an equal level of athleticism to perform the move flawlessly. The opponent also has to support the execution by jumping up, and it's not possible for him to use it against heavyweights.
6 The Playmaker
The Playmaker is a finishing move used by former WWE United States Champion MVP, which sees him twisting one of his legs around his opponent's neck while balancing on the other and performing a very weak-looking neck breaker.
While the maneuver looks like cool, it doesn't seem to possess the required impact as the opponent has to do his part by falling to his back when MVP executed the move, and it has no business of being a legitimate finishing move.
5 The Brain Chop
The Brain Chop was a finishing move used by former World Heavyweight Champion and WWE Hall of Famer The Great Khali. Apart from his size, Khali didn't have any defining features throughout his time with WWE, and as the surrounding hype subsided over time, WWE eventually turned him into a mid-card performer.
Coming back to his finisher, Khali executes the move by slamming his massive open hand on top of his opponent's head. He executes the move with a slow wind-up and a forceful downward motion, which creates a dramatic impact that makes it look like a devastating finisher, but in reality, the opponent just falls to his back with the slightest contact to make Khali look good.
4 The Cobra
The Cobra is one of the most unrealistic finishing moves in WWE history. Former Intercontinental Champion Santino Marella was the one to make the move famous, and it fit well with his comedic personality.
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It's more of a flashy gimmicky move than a finishing move, as Santino Marella riles up the crowd by wearing his puppet sock on his hand and simply striking his fingers on his opponent's neck, who then makes an unrealistic fall to the ground like he got bit by a venomous serpent.
3 The People's Elbow
There's no denying the fact that The Rock was the most electrifying man in all of sports entertainment, as he claimed throughout his illustrious in-ring career. He needed a flashy move to show off his energy, and he came up with The People's Elbow.
The move saw him take down his opponents with a spinebuster and then take off his elbow pad, and rile up the crowd by running back and forth across the ring, bouncing off the ropes before performing a simple elbow drop on his downed opponent. The theatrics is the entire point behind the move and does not inflict the said level of damage to the opponent.
2 The Worm
The Worm was one of the flashiest finishing moves in WWE history, and it was former WWE Tag Team Champion Scotty 2 Hotty who made it famous.
The lengthy theatrics is the entire point behind this move, and the opponent just lies on the ground waiting for Scotty 2 Hotty to finish his entire routine before he hits him weakly. It's hilariously similar to how the villains wait around while the Power Rangers finish their entire morphing sequence, but Scotty 2 Hotty's gimmick was entirely about showmanship, and the move really went well with it.
1 John Cena's Lightning Fist
Throughout his entire in-ring career, wrestling fans have called out John Cena for using his infamous five moves of doom, which he uses in sequence to finish off his opponents.
Many criticized Cena for not having much variety in his move set, but that didn't stop him from becoming a 16-time world champion in WWE. However, Cena incorporated a sixth move of doom later in his career, which he debuted in 2018. He performed the move by getting into position and hitting his opponent with a weak jab to the side of his face. Thankfully the move isn't used all that regularly anymore.
