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#1 Styles Clash
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AJ Styles is one of the most renowned wrestlers in the world today, and the former WWE Champion has some unique moves in his arsenal that help him remain one of the best wrestlers in the world.
While Styles’ move known as the Styles Clash is one of the most technical moves on television today, it was once banned by WWE due to the risks that were involved in its execution.
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After using the move for several years in New Japan Pro Wrestling (NJPW) and Total Nonstop Action (TNA), the move was banned by WWE in 2016 after Vince McMahon was informed that Styles botched the move while executing it against former WWE Superstar Yoshi Tatsu in NJPW and he was injured in the process.
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The Phenomenal One was then made to stick to the Calf Crusher and The Phenomenal Forearm for the initial few years of his WWE career before Chris Jericho stepped in.
He revealed that Vince wasn’t even aware of what the move was before he banned it, and he pushed him to allow Styles to start using it in WWE. Jericho stated the following in a radio show:
"And that's the one when I basically got the Styles Clash unbanned because it was banned. And I was like, I knew that Vince had heard that somebody got hurt by the move, but I know he probably didn't even know what the move was, he just knew the name. So I pitched it to him as that cool move that AJ does where he drops you on your face, we did it at WrestleMania, we did it a couple of times."
While we see Styles safely deliver the move to several of the smaller Superstars in WWE today, it is interesting to note that it is one move that was banned for being too unsafe at first but is being used by the same WWE Superstar currently.
