History Main / NameOfPower

In the older days of wrestling, finishing moves were pretty much anything not a headlock. Wrestling/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 could, because he's given it a Name of Power.

* Wrestling/CarlitoColon had a weird case of a "Name" overtaking the basic name of a move. In the WWE, he began using a leaping double knee backbreaker [[note]]Nowadays used by Sasha Banks as a setup to her Bank Statement crossface submission[[/note]], whose 'general' name was called the Lungblower, as a finisher; Carlito called it the ''Backcracker'', which was the general name for the move as well in WWE (ie, when used by other wrestlers). When he turned heel, Carlito renamed his version the ''Backstabber'' to denote his evil treachery. Despite leaving the promotion years ago, the Backstabber name ended up sticking as the general name of the move.

** [[Wrestling/MickFoley Mick Foley]] and his Double Arm DDT. Wrestling/DeanAmbrose uses the same move as well - it's just called "Dirty Deeds." (And it was [[EarlyInstallmentWeirdness originally a headlock driver.]]

* Wrestling/RandyOrton seems have to have added Wrestling/KurtAngle's Olympic/Angle Slam into his moveset. He's yet to score a pinfall with it, though.

* Michael [=McGilicutty=] won matches with a running neck breaker he called the [=McGilicutter=].
* 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]] used a one armed variant of this move as the Regal Cutter as well. Sandow's is a little different as he also 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.
** Then he switched to a full nelson slam. You know, that move Hardcore Holly had been using on Velocity for years without ever seeing it end a match? Oh, Sandow drops to one knee while doing it and calls it ''You're Welcome''.
* William Regal himself offers a {{subver|ted trope}}sion, 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 Wrestling/{{Carlito|Colon}} could hit knee lifts all day but William Regal's Knee ''Trembler'' was a finisher.
* Wrestling/WadeBarrett has been using an elbow smash to end matches. He calls it the bull hammer.
** He briefly called it 'The Souvenir'; perhaps it got changed for not being intimidating enough.

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

* Not very common on Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, where most finishers either lack names, or are particularly unique moves (such as [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Mundo's]] 'End of the World', a ''split-leg corkscrew moonsault'' or Drago's 'Dragon's Lair' pin) but the most notable example is former champion [[WrestlingMonster Matanza's]] finisher, a simple reverse-spin scoop powerslam which ''nobody'' kicks out of. Its name? ''Wrath of the Gods.''[[note]]To be fair, within the universe of the show Matanza is supposedly [[DemonicPossession possessed by a literal Aztec god of slaughter]], which would justify the destructiveness of the move.[[/note]]

* William Regal himself offers a {{subver|ted trope}}sion, 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.

* Perhaps the most triumphant example: a belly to belly suplex is one of the most basic holds/throws a wrestler can do, showing up in the movelists of all sorts of wrestlers. Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, on the other hand, can use it as a finisher because it's a BAYLEY TO BELLY (suplex)![[note]]Though she does sometimes do it off the top rope, an avalanche belly/Bayley to belly suplex, when she needs an extra bit of oommph.
* Not very common on Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, where most finishers either lack names, or are particularly unique moves (such as [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Mundo's]] 'End of the World', a ''split-leg corkscrew moonsault'' or Drago's 'Dragon's Lair' pin) but the most notable example is former champion [[WrestlingMonster Matanza's]] finisher, a simple reverse-spin scoop powerslam which ''nobody'' kicks out of. Its name? ''Wrath of the Gods.''

* Not very common on Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, where most finishers either lack names, or are particularly unique moves (such as [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Mundo's]] 'End of the World', a ''split-leg corkscrew moonsault'' or Drago's 'Dragon's Lair' pin) but the most notable example is champion Matanza's finisher, a simple reverse-spin scoop powerslam which ''nobody'' kicks out of. Its name? ''Wrath of the Gods.''
[[/note]]

* Not very common on Wrestling/LuchaUnderground, where most finishers either lack names, or are particularly unique moves (such as [[Wrestling/JohnMorrison Johnny Mundo's]] 'End of the World', a ''split-leg corkscrew moonsault or Drago's 'Dragon's Lair' pin) but the most notable example is champion Matanza's finisher, a simple reverse-spin scoop powerslam which ''nobody'' kicks out of. Its name? ''Wrath of the Gods.''

* Perhaps the most triumphant example: a belly to belly suplex is one of the most basic holds/throws a wrestler can do, showing up in the movelists of all sorts of wrestlers. Wrestling/{{Bayley}}, on the other hand, can use it as a finisher because it's a BAYLEY TO BELLY (suplex)![[note]]Though she does sometimes do it off the top rope, an avalanche belly/Bayley to belly suplex, when she needs an extra bit of oommph.[[/note]]

* World of STARDOM Champion Kairi Hojo could keep her challengers down for three with a jackknife hold, or rather, a Jack ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Sparrow]]'' Knife hold.

** [[Wrestling/MickFoley Mick Foley]] and his Double Arm DDT.

** As Daniel Bryan, he has a Wrestling/{{KENTA|Kobayashi}} esque flying knee, which is an interesting aversion, as it's unofficially known as the "Knee +," but the announcers just call it the flying knee. However, he has used it to beat Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/TripleH, and to set up Wrestling/{{Batista}} for the Yes Lock (a Crossface and a more traditional example).

* Defied with Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, 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. It was FINALLY given a name on the March 28th Smackdown: Dirty Deeds. Sometime after Summerslam 2014, Ambrose's finisher became a double underhook DDT, but it retained the Dirty Deeds name

* World of STARDOM Champion Kairi Hojo could keep her challengers down for three with a jackknife hold, or rather, a Jack ''[[Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbean Sparrow]]'' Knife hold.

* An accidental example, half by {{Engrish}} and half by Wrestling/JoeyStyles not grasping the concept of JapaneseRanguage, resulted in him calling a basic rolling elbow from Wrestling/MasatoTanaka as the "Roaring Elbow" in Wrestling/{{ECW}}. Of course, the rolling elbow was already a seen as a finishing move thanks to legends like Wrestling/MitsuharuMisawa.

*** To be more fair, a straight punch can be one of the most devastating strikes there is. It's just not as showy as most finishers.
**** Ron Garvin made it work for many years in the Crockett NWA.
***** And proved to be an example, because he was the "Hands of Stone".

* 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 a cool sounding name. At King Of The Ring 1993, Yokozuna beat the Hulkster for the WWF Championship with that very same move. (Lets face it, anything that involves [[TheGiant YOKOZUNA]] dropping his weight on top of somebody will be powerful.)

** As Daniel Bryan, he has the flying knee, which is an interesting aversion, as it's unofficially known as the "Knee +," but the announcers just call it the flying knee. However, he has used it to beat Wrestling/JohnCena, Wrestling/TripleH, and to set up Wrestling/{{Batista}} for the Yes Lock (a Crossface and a more traditional example).

* A similar case with Wrestling/{{R|on Killings}}-Truth: he briefly had one of his signature moves, a leaping spinning elbow, become a finisher because he gave it a name, the Lie Detector. Unlike Edge, he eventually stopped using it as a finisher.

* There is very little to distinguish a stretch plum from Wrestling/ChrisHero's stret plum alpha.

* Speaking of Sheamus, the Brogue Kick (a standing scissor kick to the face) has become his Finisher, replacing the Celtic Cross (Crucifix Powerbomb). Though he sometimes also uses White Noise (The Kryptonite Krunch, technically known as a 'Over the shoulder back-to-belly piledriver.').

* Defied with Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, 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. It was FINALLY given a name on the March 28th Smackdown: Dirty Deeds.
* There is very little to distinguish a stretch plum from Wrestling/ChrisHero's stretch plum alpha.

* [[Wrestling/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).

In the older days of wrestling, finishing moves were pretty much anything not a headlock. Wrestling/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.

* An accidental example, half by {{Engrish}} and half by Wrestling/JoeyStyles not grasping the concept of JapaneseRanguage, resulted in him calling a basic rolling elbow from Wrestling/MasatoTanaka as the "Roaring Elbow" in Wrestling/{{ECW}}. Of course, the rolling elbow was already a seen as a finishing move thanks to legends like Wrestling/MitsuharuMisiwa.

** A similar case with Wrestling/{{R|on Killings}}-Truth: he briefly had one of his signature moves, a leaping spinning elbow, become a finisher because he gave it a name, the Lie Detector. Unlike Edge, he eventually stopped using it as a finisher.
* A strange case with Wrestling/TripleH, in that he'd held onto the Name of his finisher, the Pedigree, since he started wrestling in the WWE in the mid 90's, despite drastically changing gimmicks from the blue blood snob that he came in as several times over the course of his career, making the name make no sense most of the time.
** He's had it so long, that in his current position/gimmick of COO it's arguably wrapped back around and become valid again.
* Defied with Wrestling/DeanAmbrose, 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.
** It was FINALLY given a name on the March 28th Smackdown: Dirty Deeds.

** As Daniel Bryan, he has the flying knee, which is an interesting aversion, as it's unofficially known as the "Knee +," but the announcers just call it the flying knee. However, he has used it to beat JohnCena, TripleH, and to set up {{Batista}} for the Yes Lock (a Crossface and a more traditional example).

* 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. (Lets face it, anything that involves [[TheGiant YOKOZUNA]] dropping his weight on top of somebody will be powerful.)

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

** A similar case with R-Truth: he briefly had one of his signature moves, a leaping spinning elbow, become a finisher because he gave it a name, the Lie Detector. Unlike Edge, he eventually stopped using it as a finisher.

* Danyah of Blue Steel & Sex Appeal and Societies Saviors can win matches with a leg drop because it's called "Thigh Master"