5 current WWE finishers and their true inventors

#4 John Laurinaitis - RKO

Some one in this picture invented the RKO

We all know that the RKO is a modification of the Diamond Cutter. But was DDP's WCW finisher original? The answer is no.

The man who created the manoeuvre that became the Diamond Cutter and then the RKO is none other than one of the worst on-screen authority figures in WWE history, John Laurinaitis. Wrestling as Johny Ace, Laurinaitis came up with a snap neck breaker move that was called the Ace Crusher.

The Ace Crusher was widely successful in Japan and has been imitated numerous times. This might just be one of the many unknown facts about WWE Senior Producer Laurinaitis, who has recently married Kathy Colace, mother of Brie and Nikki Bella.