Finishers that don't finish

[arianna]

Here's one that doesn't often finish, "The Zig Zag."

 

[Zach]

Honestly once is alright, but after that it just gets stupid and repetitive, totally anti climatic as well.

 

[Lackin]

Wrestlemania matches = finishers and kick out
same finisher on Raw or smackdown = win after 1

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

Kicking out of finishers add excitement to matches. You can just watch the end of an era match if you don't believe me.

Personally I hate that shit. If done properly it's OK, but the HIAC HHH/taker match nobody thought the first 8 pedigrees or tombstones were doing shit. It's pointless. It's the main reason I've been one of the only people who shit on that match instead of getting on my knees to blow it

 

[Danielson]

I have to agree with dolph on this one boys

 

[Dat Kid1]

Personally I hate that shit. If done properly it's OK, but the HIAC HHH/taker match nobody thought the first 8 pedigrees or tombstones were doing shit. It's pointless. It's the main reason I've been one of the only people who shit on that match instead of getting on my knees to blow it

I have to completely disagree with you. Pointless? The pop from that crowd every time there was a kick out can verify that the way that match was presented was far from pointless. If things were done like that all the time I'd be on board, but how often do you see that many kick outs? Rarely. That's what was so good about the match, because things done in that match were rarely done.

 

[Dolph'sZiggler]

If I were at the show drinking a 20 dollar beer with a bunch of other WWE marks I might care, but sitting on my couch watching a stream it did nothing for me. I never bought into any of those awful "false finishes" and knew it was only over after HHH gave the crotch chop and then got tombstoned

 

[Lockard 23]

I think it was around the early-mid 90's when kicking out of finishers slowly started to become more common. Before then, kicking out of a finisher was done virtually never at all, at least in the WWF.

I don't mind when it happens in big match situations like WM25 (Taker/HBK) or the WM28 HIAC match, but even then, when they do it three or more times in a row, it grates on my nerves. I think I probably never mind when someone escapes from a submission hold by grabbing the ropes since the ropes are kinda there for that purpose, and all you have to do is reach for them. But a physically damaging finisher (Tombstone, Pedigree, Stunner, etc.) should always end the match at least 95% of the time after being done only once, unless the person who executed the move is just too slow to make the cover (giving the other guy time to recover.)