History Main / NameOfPower

* Defied with Dean Ambrose, who has been using a headlock driver as a finisher more or less since debuting as part of Wrestling/TheShield, and as of March 2014 it STILL doesn't have a name, official or unofficial.

** Also, Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} names his (guaranteed to end match) suplex the Jackhammer, though it lifts the same as a suplex, it drops more akin to a dangerous buster, which usually does not need a name of power.

** {{Wrestling/MickFoley Mick Foley}} and his Double Arm DDT.

* William Regal himself offers a {{subversion| trope}}, claiming he won matches with "The Power Of The Punch" while he really just hit guys with brass knuckles. He had a straight example too, as Carlito could hit knee lifts all day but William Regal's Knee ''Trembler'' was a finisher.

* William Regal himself offers a {{subversion| trope}}, claiming he won matches with "The Power Of The Punch" while he really just hit guys with brass knuckles. He had a straight example too, as Carlito could hit knee lifts all day but William Regal's Knee ''Tembler'' was a finisher.

* William Regal himself offers a {{subversion| trope}}, claiming he won matches with "The Power Of The Punch" while he really just hit guys with brass knuckles.

* Wrestling/DamienSandow, the "intellectual savior of the masses", has a finisher called the Terminus. (Ter-min-OOSE). It's a neckbreaker he does by crossing his opponent's arms over their head and neck, and standing back to back, he drops down with a neckbreaker. [[Wrestling/WilliamRegal Steven (William) Regal]] possibly used this move as the Regal Cutter as well. Sandow's is a little different as he rolls backward as soon as he lands, which is supposed to make it different enough somehow. It has a name? It's a match ender.

* Speaking of Sheamus, the Brogue Kick (a standing scissor kick to the face) has become his Finisher, replacing the Celtic Cross (Crucifix Powerbomb).

* More DDT's: Wrestling/{{Raven}} with the Evenflow DDT, Wrestling/TommyDreamer with the Dreamer DDT, and more recently, Drew [=McIntyre=] (on WWE SmackDown) with an as-yet-unnamed double underhook DDT. They're pushing him as a big star, so wait for a name to show up for it.
** It appears to be called The Future Shock.

** Also, Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} names his (guaranteed to end match) suplex the Jackhammer.

* The Atomic Legdrop. HulkHogan's legdrop is a finishing move as opposed to almost every other leg drop you will see (including the "[[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin over the top]]" variant) because he gets a running start, and of course, it has cool sounding name. At King Of The Ring 1993, Yokozuna beat the Hulkster for the WWF Championship with that very same move. Hul
** Lets face it, anything that involves [[TheGiant YOKOZUNA]] dropping his weight on top of somebody will be powerful

* More DDT's: Wrestling/{{Raven}} with the Evenflow DDT, Tommy Dreamer with the Dreamer DDT, and more recently, Drew [=McIntyre=] (on WWE SmackDown) with an as-yet-unnamed double underhook DDT. They're pushing him as a big star, so wait for a name to show up for it.

* Let's face it, anything that involves Wrestling/{{YOKOZUNA}} dropping his weight on top of somebody will be powerful.

* Naming it the "Perfect-plex" rather than its traditional name (The fisherman's suplex, because it has a hook...Get it?) made it [[Wrestling/CurtHennig Mr. Perfect's]] impossible-to-kick-out-of finisher.

** Also Wrestling/{{Goldberg}}, names his (guaranteed to end match) suplex, the Jackhammer.

* Wrestling/TrishStratus at one point used a regular headlock bulldog as a finishing move. She called it the "Trish Dog". She later upgraded to a more impressive spring board version called the Stratus faction.

* Wrestling/MarkHenry uses a standing power slam with more elevation than normal he calls the "Worlds Strongest Slam" in reference to his Pan Am weight lifting victories and squatting record.

* Lets face it, anything that involves Wrestling/{{YOKOZUNA}} dropping his weight on top of somebody will be powerful.

** And now [[LegacyCharacter Curtis Axel]] has started using it.

* Naming it the "Perfect-plex" rather than its traditional name (The fisherman's suplex, because it has a hook...Get it?) made it [[Wrestling/CurtHennig Mr. Perfect's]] impossible-to-kick-out-of finisher.

* Wrestling/WadeBarrett has been using an elbow smash to end matches. He calls it the bull hammer.

* Wrestling/WadeBarret has been using an elbow smash to end matches. He calls it the bull hammer.

In the older days of wrestling, finishing moves were pretty much anything not a headlock. ShawnMichaels used a superkick called Sweet Chin Music for a finishing move. Other wrestlers today use a superkick as a transitional, or a set-up, move. None of them will EVER get a pinfall with it... but Shawn can, because he's given it a Name of Power.

* The DDT is a very basic move that happens just about every match today. [[JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] used to use it as a finisher and it was sold as extremely powerful (it was downright chilling to see TheUndertaker NoSell Jake's DDT ''twice in one match''), but everyone and their grandmothers uses it these days. RandyOrton has his own version where he hooks the legs of his opponent over the middle rope, elevating the opponent completely horizontally before delivering the DDT. This is sometimes referred to as the IEDDT, after the storyline where Randy (kayfabely) revealed he had IED.
* More DDT's: {{Wrestler/Raven}} with the Evenflow DDT, Tommy Dreamer with the Dreamer DDT, and more recently, Drew [=McIntryre=] (on WWE SmackDown) with an as-yet-unnamed double underhook DDT. They're pushing him as a big star, so wait for a name to show up for it.

* [[JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]] with the Clothesline from Hell was '''not''' [[CallASmeerpARabbit an example of this trope]] because it was a lariat, a much more violent evolution of the clothesline popularized by Wrestling/StanHansen...until he started using a [[PlayedStraight diving clothesline instead.]]
* [[DwayneJohnson The People's Elbow]] is basically an elbow drop with a whole lot of setup, and was sometimes used as a finisher (he had other finishers).
* How can TheBigShow win matches as soon as he lands one punch? Because it's not a punch, it's a "big right hand"!

* Parodied by {{Wrestler/Sting}} and The Rock, who stick the same adjective on any move, making it that much more powerful. The Stinger Splash, the People's Elbow, etc.
* The Atomic Legdrop. "Immortal" or not, HulkHogan's finisher is a move that nobody else in history has gotten a "legitimate" pin with.
** One small exception. King Of The Ring 1993. Yokozuna beat the Hulkster for the WWF Championship with that very same move. Hulk wasn't seen in the company for years after that.
*** Lets face it, anything that involves [[TheGiant YOKOZUNA]] dropping his weight on top of somebody will be powerful.

* Relatedly, when Bryan Danielson was the Ring of Honor World Champion, he actually got the Small Package over as a legitimate finishing maneuver. For a while, his inside cradle was considered unbreakable, and therefore a guaranteed victory. This didn't last, of course--in big-time matches, after about 30 minutes, one of the easiest ways to put Danielson's opponent over as a truly worthy competitor was to simply have him kick out of this small package.
* If JeffHardy uses a stunner, it's flashy and powerful, but nowhere near a match winner. When StoneColdSteveAustin does it... Then it's a STONE COLD STUNNER!

* In TNA or Impact Wrestling or whatever the hell they're calling themselves these days, James Storm uses a super kick as a finisher. It is, of course, named the Last Call, as part of his "beer drinking cowboy" gimmick (lifestyle?)
* RandyOrton seems have to have added KurtAngle's Olympic/Angle Slam into his moveset. He's yet to score a pinfall with it, though.

*** Unless, of course, your name is {{Sheamus}}. Then you can have Orton punt you in the head and [[MadeOfIron come back basically at full strength within a few days.]]
* Mark Henry uses a standing power slam with more elevation than normal he calls the "Worlds Strongest Slam" in reference to his Pan Am weight lifting victories and squatting record.
* Zach Ryder's finisher is a leg lariat he calls the Rough Ryder, though he does jump higher than needed, similar to when Doug Basham would use it, but Doug's wasn't as guaranteed to end matches because it wasn't named.

* TrishStratus at one point used a regular headlock bulldog as a finishing move. She called it the "Trish Dog". She later upgraded to a more impressive spring board version called the Stratus faction.

* Damien Sandow, the "intellectual savior of the masses", has a finisher called the Terminus. (Ter-min-OOSE). It's a neckbreaker he does by crossing his opponent's arms over their head and neck, and standing back to back, he drops down with a neckbreaker. Steven (William) Regal possibly used this move as the Regal Cutter as well. Sandow's is a little different as he rolls backward as soon as he lands, which is supposed to make it different enough somehow. It has a name? It's a match ender.
* Wade Barret has been using an elbow smash to end matches. He calls it the bull hammer.

* DragonGate veteran Genki Horiguchi can win matches with a backslide, of all moves. His "Backslide from Hell" (or Heaven, if he's a face) is almost an afterthought when used by anyone else.