10 Incredibly Inventive WWE Match Finishes

[@mausamchopra189]

The finish of Eddie Guerrero vs Mr. Kennedy where Eddie slammed a steel chair on the mat and tossed it to Kennedy and pretended to be hurt, causing Kennedy to be disqualified was pretty cool too

[@TheForeverRanger]

That was also Eddie's last match and he in turn gave Ken his first loss.

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

That was idiotic. If the ref didn't see it, it should not have been a decision, damn it!

[@tripletswhitman7851]

BigBadJerry Rogers it was funny chill

[@SteRDLK]

He did that literally all the time?

[@gandalfthegrey7135]

@@BigBadJerryRogers Looking at the performance of referees that are not there for my entertainment but the ensure rules: Nah mate, refs have done much dumber things

[@Ermacc187]

JBL vs Big Show in a steel cage where show chokeslammed JBL through the ring, which allowed JBL to crawl out to get the win deserves a mention

[@noddyjoe]

If it was executed well then yes, but big show took literally forever to get out of the cage Creative yes, well executed nope

[@hmdwgf]

That wasn’t just a steel cage. That was a barbed wire steel cage with a chained and padlocked door, like how a Hell in a Cell is locked. They did the same thing with Adam Cole and Johnny Gargano in 2019.

[@freewillygoss]

@@noddyjoe because of the barbed wire lmao

[@lunamora8799]

Same thing happened when Paul Wight threw Austin threw the side of the cage in Austin’s match with Vince at the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre PPV in February 1999. Thereby and inadvertently causing Austin to win.

[@AsadKhan-ei1ez]

Should have been at number 1

[@itchweeed47]

Eddie was so great at these kinds of antics -The fake chair shot -The double groin shot -Taking off his boot to escape the Ankle Lock

[@jabso]

There was a Big Show vs Regal Raw match with a brilliant finish. Regal used the brass knuckles to knock Show out but he ended up falling on top of him for the 3 count.

[@conatser]

This was ace.

[@TheSkinnerdawinner]

1st one I thought of

[@lesterlim7693]

That shit was hilarious

[@john-olivierlukama1548]

Sounds like something you would see in a looney tunes cartoon 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@JT_WARCRIME]

I'm starting to think that Cultaholic bought stock in Shutterstock.

[@kaylynowens196]

#1 was so brilliant, they paid homage to it 12 years later. The boot coming loose was the same way Dolph Ziggler got the IC title back from The Miz at No Mercy 2016.

[@jtp2007]

That 2016 match to me is one of the best matches of the last 10 years.

[@kaylynowens196]

Me too. I'll rewatch it all the time.

[@Richi0h]

I thought when Curtis Axel won the IC title by pinning Wade Barrett whilst he was in the figure 4 was pretty creative.

[@joknows2496]

Facts and the rehashing at Takeover IYH, with Io Shirai winning the title

[@MRWINDYMETHANE]

Holy shit, are you serious!? When was this!?

[@O.F.A.]

@@MRWINDYMETHANE Payback or Battleground 2013(?)

[@dennett316]

Does an inventive counter count? If so, then Randy Orton countering Seth Rollins' curb stomp into an RKO at Wrestlemania has got to be up there. Just an amazing finish. As for the list, I think the ring breaking being number 10 is a bit bizarre. Way too low in such company as Eugene vs Simon Dean.

[@Joe90h]

I think the fact we get a ring break every couple of years now hurt the entry's 'score'.

[@mikepagebrand]

Now that they repeated it 4 times seeing doesn't look as impressive

[@noddyjoe]

The curb stomp to rko was an absolute delight

[@Sethsters]

My favorite is Eddie's last match vs Mr. Kennedy. The ref took a dive and Eddie brought in a steel chair. As he was about to use it, the ref was getting up, so he tossed the chair to Kennedy and hit the mat. The ref stood up to see Eddie motionless on the mat and Kennedy holding a chair, so he Eddie got the win by DQ.

[@williamhild1793]

Hulk-Andre with the "dual" Hebner referees: Dave and Earl.

[@andycain4351]

Another thing on Hart v Piper at WM8. The spot in the match where Roddy can't decide whether to use the ringbell on Bret or not was one of the spots that first showed me how important psychology can be in a wrestling match. It's a moment I'll never forget and well worth watching if you've never seen it.

[@ryangroff610]

No love to big match John rising above hate at extreme rules by duct taping Batistas legs together around the ring post in a last man standing match?

[@DavionWitherspoon]

I remember being 13 when big show broke the ring. I went ape shit crazy. The issue was my mom worked 12 hour shifts at this time . I got way to hype woke her up and got grounded for 2 weeks

[@TheNEW619]

I don't mean to nitpick, but it's actually... Armandooo... Alejandrooo... Estrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrradaaaa!😄 Great list!

[@Cardinal187]

Listen! To me! Haha. I miss that guy.

[@CreateToInitiate]

"Haha"

[@CreateToInitiate]

@matt 😂😭🤣

[@saygoodnighttothebadguy]

You gonna go one on one with the Samoan Bulldozer "Umaga" Haha

[@SteRDLK]

@@saygoodnighttothebadguy oooooooooooooooooooomaga

[@natemccollum3731]

The UK should do a Heel Turn by celebrating Independence Day

[@anthonyjennison6304]

Doubt it

[@JaimeD.]

Here's an honorable mention: *The 3rd match between Johnny Gargano & Tommaso Ciampa at NXT TakeOver: Brooklyn 4 for the NXT Championship in a Last Man Standing Match. Gargano got blinded by revenge in the end and nailed a similar knee strike to Ciampa; but, he ran off the entrance ramp to a equipment box that took him down for the 10 count while Ciampa moved to stand over the first floor and retain.* I consider this to be an interesting finish and continue with both men's character arcs.

[@JaimeD.]

@@Dave_ja_vu 2018 NXT was the best.

[@JaimeD.]

@@Dave_ja_vu The roster was fire at that time before the call ups in 2019. They get underutilized once they are moved to RAW or SD. ONLY a few achieve a lot in a small ratio after WM season or Draft.

[@traviskoontz4796]

That cena umaga last man standing match is one of my all time favorites

[@fiddz8426]

I always appreciated the finish to Over The Edge 98 where Stone Cold pinned Dude Love with an unconscious Mr. McMahon counting the 3, thanks to a resourceful Austin. 😆

[@dicloniusgames]

One of mine was the I Quit match between Cena and Orton where he had Orton trapped in the STF while handcuffed to Orton and made him say I Quit

[@wolvie667]

How about Macho Man tieing up Crush up side down winning the first ever last man standing match at Wrestlemania 10??

[@penaltyflag366]

The best finish ever is when Seth Rollins cashed in his mitb at wrestlmania what a shocker to such a predictable match

[@MrKahlerHahn]

*activate smartass mode* It made a 1 on 1 into a triple threat. There was still quite a bit till the finish. But the stomp to RKO earlier that day was helluva lovely finish as well

[@ivorycoder44]

@@MrKahlerHahn that RKO was fucking magical

[@Naruto0s44]

Hell yeah he saved mania

[@byrdgyme2k8]

Did you predict that finish?

[@Naruto0s44]

Lesnar vs Roman was predictable because if Seth didn't cash in roman would have won the belt from lesnar because that was the original plan

[@kelvinsmith9554]

I re-watched both of the Undertaker's WMs 30 & 33 losses and with him leaving at SS, it's hard to tell which moment will be the most heartbreaking (at first sight).

[@benpasha8845]

The ending to the Angle vs. Taker match from Survivor Series 2000 could have been on this list as well - where Eric Angle was was hiding under the ring and then Kurt rolled up Taker for the win.

[@ICRockets]

Yep, I think the only reason it isn't there is because it's so similar to Double Doinks which happened first.

[@Relaxoli]

I tought that finish would be #1

[@grey1288]

Cultaholic should have make this video a week later cause that Ladder Match finish earlier was one of the smartest strategies to culminate a match. That was brilliant!

[@ChrisPayneHBTW]

Batista/Cena Last Man Standing was creative and my fav and watching the panic in Batista trying to get up was great considering the basic formula all LMS matches go, people don’t get to visually watch themselves lose LMS matches

[@geoffchurchill5492]

Kevin Owens pins Cena clean about as original as we saw from Cena over a long period

[@generalspudicus7934]

That John cena and umaga match is criminally underrated

[@KingsNerdCave]

Angle rolling up Taker while in the hell's gate was a great way to end a classic between 2 guys who neither was one to lose much.

[@jerryjanik480]

I love the Rock and Mankind and those two matches were awesome Doink the Clown was the original Mindfreak of Vegas

[@Maluiproductions]

That must have been a fun Physics class

[@tk_Layla]

Glad to see Eddie top the chart; always loved that finish. I'm gonna give a shout to the Shane v Big Show LMS match at Backlash, where Test lifted Shane up on the camera rig to win after he leapt off the entrance way scaffolding XD

[@insomniacbritgaming1632]

Just after X7... that backlash was epic

[@kogie5824]

Pacitti have you ever considered stand up comedy 😂😂

[@YourAverageFan]

One of my favorites was backlash 07. Orton gets speared. Edge gets FU'd. Cena gets super kicked onto Orton. Shawn cant break it up because was was RKO'd moments before all of that

[@fergalstackstreams]

This is missing the finish of the 2004 Royal Rumble with Benoit eliminating Big Show by himself.

[@rhettboy1]

I’d be way more interested in football if there were teams called the Denver Beefboys and the Atlanta Bastards.

[@ICRockets]

Honorable Mentions: 1) Seth cashes in mid-match 2) Owen Hart gets his legs trapped in the cage 3) A debuting Big Show costs Vince the match when he throws Austin through the side of the cage to the floor 4) Mankind doesn't quit, but says "I quit! I quit!" through the magic of pre-recorded shenanigans.

[@RMGLUCK]

If someone hasn't already copyrighted The Atlanta Bastards, they really ought to.

[@jtizzle124]

5:41 It’s Doink brah brah

[@Schmidtactular]

The Undertaker vs. Kurt Angle match has another little tid bit not mentioned: when they clashed again in early 2006 at No Way Out, they used a variation of this finish where The Undertaker was the one with the triangle choke on Angle and Angle was the one to get the pin, but he was damn near unconscious and that was used as justification for a rematch because The Undertaker was moments away from winning via ref stoppage. It was a phenomenal match and the rematch on smackdown was almost as good, but was unfortunately sacrificed to setup the Undertaker-Mark Henry mania match.

[@rexdudeclone]

Sheamus and Cesaro end new day 483 title reign after Cesaro feigning the tag and taking trouble in paradise and Sheamus pins Kingston is my personal favorite

[@forever2times]

Great list i remember watching #1. Eddie was a different breed he was not losing 😂

[@InfectedChris]

Double Doink, brah! Doink, brah, brah!

[@KingsNerdCave]

I mean the most devastating move in all of wrestling the surprise roll-up, is used so much to save characters but at the same time makes you wonder why everyone falls for it lol.

[@pedroc.b.3874]

Half ton of beef... okay, i laughed way more than I expected on that one.

[@Rusherevansfan1996]

I remember watching the big show vs brock lesnar match from june 2003 was freaking awesome because I was out for summer vacation from school and I was watching this in north Carolina at a hotel with my late dad that got me hooked watching wrestling when I was 5 years old in 2001 and 2003 I wasn't even 7 years old yet man good times. And I am so happy that the late Eddie guerrero match against Kurt Angle is on here on this list and I can remember hear Michael Cole saying the boot went flying was so darn funny to me and Kurt Angle being so pissed off was funny to me and I really love wrestlemania 20 for sure.

[@quentinparhiala9415]

That was a great ending to the Rock vs Mankind/Mick Foley match in 1999

[@SAI-st4uu]

DOWN!! DOWN!! DOWN!! DOWN!! -Mankind 1999

[@turtletcp1598]

oh btw Angle won via The Undertaker tapping 0.57 milliseconds before the referee counted to 3.

[@minaseasres3650]

Best never give up shirt

[@harshmishra4675]

Edge got stuck in the ladder was also something amazing finish

[@dfloriza]

Eddie Guerrero will always be a creative legend. Nobody does matches like him.

[@westernforce8498]

Where is The Rock vs Mankinds I Quit match. Never been done before or since and it was awesome.

[@btf_flotsam478]

It would be hard to do a fake submission in the modern day and age, where people submit by tapping out (rather than doing it verbally).

[@aran8143]

Cena Batista Last Man Standing has to be HIGH on this list

[@donovanbradford8231]

I don't know how you don't have Al Snow & Hardcore Holly at St. Valentina Day Massacre Where the 2 brawl to the outside area and Holly wrapped Snow up in an actual chain link fence to prevent Snow from raising his shoulders or kicking out on this list. Or the First Blood match between Austin and Kane. Where if Kane lost he would set himself in fire. Only to have Mankind rush to the ring to aide his partner Kane while Undertaker persued with a chair. The finish saw Undertaker swing a chair at Mankind only miss and hit Austin in the face and bloody the rattlesnake. The finish prevented Kane having to set himself on fire, but also gave a reason for Austin to demand a rematch the next night for the tilte.

[@bubbajoshproductions3990]

Honorable mention: Cena VS Batista, Last Man Standing, Cena ducttapes Batista's leg around the bottom ring rope and turnbuckle

[@smelllikeaweebsspirit6675]

the finish of Shawn Michaels vs Razor Ramon ladder match at WM10 is my top 3 along with Eddie's boot and Royal Rumble match 2004

[@turtletcp1598]

I like how the title is Top 10 Incredibly Inventive WWE Match Finishes and the thumbnail is The Rock 98’ on the floor with a light... I was like.. “Mankind vs The Rock SOME KIND OF BRAWL”

[@colel1605]

Distraction finish surprise rollup ftw

[@djf41393]

Just saw this post on r/sc last night, good timing

[@JSKIDNB]

The most important part is the start... Cus if it doesn't start it can't finish ;)

[@thebombspayloadisexposed]

GENIUS!

[@SuperCMeekins]

hey al snow is legend

[@phillipcollins1658]

Ah yes...who could forget the Atlanta Bastards lol

[@kabeerahmed4588]

In 10 years, The Miz will be featured in this

[@Solid_Jackson]

Fun fact- Doink’s head was the originally slated to explode spewing confetti Strange but true

[@JT-sw3sp]

Doink brah!!

[@Bazmono]

I'm 9 months late but Shane McMahon vs Big Show Judgment Day 2000 Last Man Standing. Test using the crane camera to hold Shane up during the 10 count

[@thebombspayloadisexposed]

"Atlanta Bastards" 😆

[@BigBadJerryRogers]

An inventive ending they totally missed the boat on was putting Zach Gowen in a battle royal

[@SteRDLK]

Kofi Kingston vs Zach Gowen

[@ravenwhiteduck6460]

best one has got to be the royal rumble where McMahon tore both his quads

[@killerreborn34]

Eddie Guerrero vs Hardcore Holly where he faked getting hit by a chair for a dq win.

[@MrKahlerHahn]

DOINK, Bruh!!!

[@lilpoetat]

thanks!

[@tyfiplayz45]

How is John Cena vs. Batista in a Last Man Standing Match not in this? Cena taped Batista's feet on the ring post so he couldn't get up. LIKE WHAT!?!??!?

[@Lithiumunderdose]

Ones that stick in my head are Cena vs Batista Last Man Standing with the duct tape and The New Day vs The Bar with Cesaro's fake tag

[@bodenlosedosenhose1590]

Say what you want, but Michael Bucci really owned the Simon Dean gimmick. I loved it.

[@Koyasama]

Not sure how Cena/Batista Last Man Standing isn't on here. When Batista can accuse Cena of taking a page out of Hornswoggle's book--*and it makes perfect sense*--that's inventive.

[@Kleetus_Van_Damm]

When Rey’s mask was ripped off, I yelled out “don’t look” while leaning closer to my tv. Seeing his face is a total guilty pleasure.

[@christopher6101]

Bret Hart vs Undertaker (Shawn Michaels guest referee) - Summerslam 97

[@kevinconn]

Cultaholic brought to you in part by Shutterstock. Jesus. 😳

[@ammagnolia]

I'll never forget the POV shot and how dumb it looked. Me and my brothers literally ran out of the room. One ran out of the house screaming EEEEEEEW. LOL. It was such bad douchechils. We hated it. Lol. It was too movie. Pretaped. Rocks face looked so bad and dumb. We never finished it we just walked away from it, laughed, never really talked about it because everytime we do... It's like talking about the time the dog jumped your leg and actually finished. You don't wash your pants. You throw it away and never talk about it again.

[@SAPsociety]

Don't mention a double doink to Chicago Bears fans 😬

[@Solid_Jackson]

Incredibly inventive….incredibly arguable

[@jeremywilliams5141]

The Bar vs The New Day at Roadblock 2016 for the Tag Team Championship.

[@MrJochiMorrison]

What about Twin Magic?

[@SteRDLK]

When Dave and Earl robbed Hogan of the title?

[@MrBombphoon]

Mom's apple pie, the 4th of July ... she was a HOOKER

[@abdullahnisar4499]

That Drew McIntyre claymore to Seth Rollins as he was lifting Dolph Ziggler for the falcon arrow at HIAC 2018 should have been on this list.

[@chriscollins550]

Fan's complain now if two baby faces or two heels against each other. Yet some really good matches come out of it.

[@Tbro2303]

Hope i see eddie guerrero on the list cause,if this list ever pops up in your head as an idea eddie is just all over it.

[@chuyvazquez393]

Yo sami zayn doe

[@wolvie667]

Am I the only one who misses Cena Ducktaping Batista's legs together around a ringpost to win a last man standing match???

[@Gorilla_Strong]

The thumbnail is CCTV showing what The Rock's front gate saw while being ripped to pieces.

[@KEVINZARD]

8:07 make that the real shirt I would buy that

[@jonvia]

Mick Foley is the homie!!!

[@outlawrip-offartist4161]

Crush versus Doink The Clown can you guys name a more iconic feud in the last 40 years.

[@thomass.7836]

CENA VS. BATISTA Last man standing!!!

[@braedenmartin8596]

Rey for real pulled a kakashi 😂

[@mral823]

Where is the suprise roll up... it should be number 1

[@nickp9062]

The most devastating move in all of sports entertainment!!

[@bobbydelacroix1515]

Kane debut 🙏

[@DarkwingDann]

So pumped I knew it was a shot from halftime heat lol

[@blank3ybob841]

As a falcons fan I must say the Atlanta bastards is more fitting. I yell that more any how