Cesaro stole the swing from... .

Well since this is supposed to be a fun thread we went from billy gunn doing the fame asser to Kelly Kellys K2!!!!

COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!

thats true, i liked Ravens tho

Gangrel did a sweet one too. The story I've always heard about Jake inventing the DDT is he was in a tag match, when he had his opponent in a front face lock while he walked backwards to his corner for a tag. As he was walking he tripped and fell. His opponent sold it like a move and the crowd popped.

Another story that I've always found funny was that back when Muhammad Hassan was around people in the back told him to confront Eddie for using the Camel Clutch while he was using it as his finisher. So he did, not knowing that Eddie's father invented the move and Eddie went off on him.

Dude seemed like a walking ball of misfortune. A lot of bad timing and a ton of backstage heat. There was another story where he was supposed to wrestle I think Slaughter and some guys advised him not to sell for Slaughter to get his heel character over. Then after the match everyone said he disrespected Slaughter by not selling. The guy says he quit wrestling because of the backstage stuff in WWE.

I haven't heard any of that before. That's crazy. And you're right. I was 14-15 around the time he was wrestling and being an American I thought it was pretty unfair how he was portrayed. After 9/11, it was a bad idea for anything close to a "terrorist" character. He was a talented guy though. He could've gotten another character over for sure, and steered clear of the nonsense that ensued

I thought the Arab American gimmick was amazing. He may have been Italian, but it was one time where WWE were able to make a true sociopolitical statement, as Arab Americans - and anyone of Middle Eastern decent for that matter - had a legitimate beef. They were treated with disdain by the majority of uninformed Americans. The first vignettes were perfect, explaining his position....then every week it got darker, finally culminating in his frustration at not being accepted. I LOVED the gimmick all the way to the end. I was even into the terrorist stuff at the very end because it was just provocative enough (without going into hand birth or necrophilia territory). They say Jake had the worst luck, eh eh. Hassan deserved way better. The locker room can be a snake pit, no doubt about it.


Anyway, back on topic, Crossrhodes was first done by Test, Test Drive. Always liked the move, but Cody really perfected it. I think that's why Test eventually got the Big Boot instead.

That's right, that's right. I thought there was a twist somewhere. Then the hostage thing, yes. WWE just really mishandled that there

Didn't one of the Too Cool guys use something similar to the Skull Crushing Finale?