5 WWE Superstars with Submission Finishers You Didn’t Know About

#1 AJ Styles' Figure Four Leg Lock

AJ Styles patterned himself after Ric Flair for a portion of his Impact Wrestling run, complete with using the Figure Four Leglock.

AJ Styles had a long, successful career before signing with WWE, to the point that many experts anticipated his legacy may be as the greatest wrestler of his generation to have never worked under Vince McMahon. All of that changed in 2016, when Styles signed and debuted at the Royal Rumble, and he has since become a staple part of the WWE landscape.

The Phenomenal one has used his Calf Crusher to good effect in WWE, after using it earlier in Impact and New Japan. In addition to that and his Phenomenal Forearm, he had other signature maneuvers like the Styles Clash and Spiral Tap that he used elsewhere.

It’s easy to forget that, during Styles’s long tenure with Impact, he tried on a few different personas, and one of them was working as Ric Flair’s protégé.

During that period as a main event player, the powers that be at Impact probably went a little too far in trying to pattern the established star after the Nature Boy. For better or for worse, that included Styles adding the Figure Four Leglock to his catalog of finishers during that period of time.