10 Superstars and the most iconic WrestleMania use of their finisher(s)

#1 Bret Hart at WrestleMania 13

Not just the best WrestleMania finisher, possibly the best WrestleMania moment, period

Literally, everything about this Sharpshooter is perfect.

In a vicious submission match, Bret Hart and Steve Austin beat each other to a pulp all over the Rosemont Horizon, with little regard to the "submission" aspect of the match at times. Austin would be bloodied during that brawl, with Hart arguing that he would take the blame and that his backstage sway would cover The Rattlesnake from front office punishment; the World Wrestling Federation had a strict no blood policy at the time (this being a year away from the full dawn of the Attitude Era and the family-friendly New Generation era dying its slow death), but Hart and Austin both agreed beforehand that the WWF's planned finish for the match demanded blood to be believable.

That planned finish was Steve Austin passing out in Bret's signature hold rather than submitting, cementing a babyface turn the audience had been begging the company to give them for months; Austin was often a master class in facial expressions and selling, but the drama of the blood streaming down his screaming face (and the streams of red stuff dripping through Stone Cold's beard and teeth) gave a show-defining image that no WrestleMania has ever been able to top.

The debate over whether this match or the Michaels-Undertaker match is the greatest Mania match ever will last probably as long as there is still a WWE, but there is no doubt that this is the single greatest use of a finisher in the history of WrestleMania, one which created an entire movement around the company's most compelling character.

Other Great Uses

Besides this match, another extended Sharpshooter sequence looked like it would close out WrestleMania XII, as the Hitman held Shawn Michaels in the devastating backstretch for what seemed like an eternity to close out the regulation portion of their famous Iron Man Match.