WWE: The 5 Most Powerful Finishing Moves

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2. Baron Corbin’s “End of Days”

Baron Corbin only became a main event player in December, but he’s acquitted himself well to the championship scene. After briefly trying to make a charge at the WWE Championship, Corbin has settled in nicely as Dean Ambrose’s challenger for the Intercontinental Championship, and nobody surprised if he won the title at WrestleMania 33.

Although the “Deep Six” is an excellent move, we all know that the imposing superstar’s aura as a future star mostly stems from his finisher. The “End of Days” is one of the most aesthetically pleasing and recognizable finishing moves in the WWE today, and it’s also been booked like a move that is impossible to beat.

On the final episode of SmackDown Live in 2016, Corbin faced A.J. Styles and Dolph Ziggler in a triple-threat match for the WWE Championship. Styles retained the title and pinned Ziggler for the win, but the circumstances by which he won painted the “End of Days” as one of the WWE’s premier moves. Corbin had hit Ziggler with the “End of Days”, but Styles quickly hit Corbin with the “Phenomenal Forearm”. Instead of pinning Corbin off of his own finisher, though, Styles decided to pin Ziggler instead. This was probably because there are less repercussions for Ziggler to take a pin than for an up-and-comer like Corbin to, but it had the dual effect of elevating the “End of Days” as a finisher.

Additionally, Corbin hit the “End of Days” on just about every superstar in sight during the Elimination Chamber, including after he was eliminated in order to get a roll-up pin on Dean Ambrose. The Miz took advantage of that by pinning Ambrose, and, again, that only served to further the finisher’s clout.