5 Abandoned WWE Finishers

These finishers are gone and forgotten
These finishers are gone and forgotten from WWE

#4 The Stun Gun

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"Stone Cold" Steve Austin is known for his ruthless, devil-may-care on-screen character and his stunning finishing move, the Stone Cold Stunner. The stunner looks awesome and devastating when performed by Austin especially when his opponents sell the move perfectly.

Selling a move perfectly makes it look more effective. Besides, it'd be safe to say that the fans were behind the stunner all the way.

However this was not the same at WCW when Austin was billed as "Stunning" Steve Austin. His persona was different to the one he had in WWE.

Instead of grabbing his opponent's head and driving their neck onto his shoulder, he lifted his opponent up and dropped their neck onto the top rope, causing them to be "stunned".

The finisher was called the Stun Gun and was thankfully erased from his career. Things changed for the better and the move wasn't used by Austin in WWE and we don't expect to see it ever. The finisher was awful and for a character that Austin portrayed in WWE, it would've been awful if he used the stun gun as his permanent finisher.

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Edited by Johny Payne
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