MMA’s 10 Craziest Pro Wrestling-Style Finishes

Admit it. When Hulk Hogan planted that leg drop on the enemy’s grill, you cheered. Ditto the wonder that was The Stone-Cold Stunner. And don’t forget about The Ultimate Warrior’s military press, Macho Man’s flying elbow an…

Admit it. When Hulk Hogan planted that leg drop on the enemy’s grill, you cheered. Ditto the wonder that was The Stone-Cold Stunner. And don’t forget about The Ultimate Warrior’s military press, Macho Man’s flying elbow and the pre-Iraq War Camel Clutch.

I could go on. You may have already been sensing that. But that’s because devastating finishers are like a tomahawk dunk and a walk-off home run rolled into one. There is nothing else like it.

Suffice it to say this is one area where I don’t mind MMA taking a page from the pro wrestling playbook.

Here are 10 of MMA’s craziest pro-wrestling-style finishes. In order to qualify, first, a fighter needs to be actively associated with the move in question. No random dudes on YouTube.

Second, the move has to have actually caused a finish—the faster and cleaner the better.

Third, it has to be more than just lightning in a bottle; the fighter has to have pulled it off more than once, or at least stand a realistic shot of doing so.

And fourth, the move has to be able to start with the word The. 

Those are the metrics. Now here’s the list.

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