10 wrestling finishing moves that don’t work anymore (With Pics)

9. Sunset Flip

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There was a day when a wrestler escaped a sunset flip (the closest 1980s WWE wrestling ever got to “high flying”) and the move was never the same once it was clear you just had to kick your opponent in the head to get out of the hold. Never a signature maneuver, the sunset flip was a surprise used to turn the momentum back in the favor of the babyface, utilized by the likes of Tito Santana and SD Jones to pull a win out of nowhere. Back in ECW, the sunset flip was an integral part of the chain wrestling sequences performed by guys like Dean Malenko and Eddie Guerrero, but it’s time as a finisher had long passed even by that point.