WWE: Four iconic wrestling finishers that don’t hold up in 2019

4. Shawn Michaels’ Sweet Chin Music

This one might be a bit unfair and a lot of you reading this might disagree entirely. Shawn Michaels could show up to Monday Night Raw next week and deliver a Sweet Chin Music and it will look like the most devastating kick to happen.

Michaels made the superkick popular and now in 2019, it has reached unprecedented ranks. Thanks in large part to The Young Bucks, the superkick is now used mostly as a move to garner a reaction from the crown and often times down an opponent to cause a short break in action.

We rarely, if ever, see wrestlers win a match with a superkick nowadays and that is all that Michaels is doing. Sure, he is “tuning up the band” but his repetitive stomping at the mat does not make the superkick any more dangerous and if anything is just telling his opponent what is about to happen.

Do I still love the move? Yes. But accepting it as this deadly kick when in reality it has become a very common move in most wrestlers’ move set is a bit far-fetched for me now.

But hey, that probably doesn’t even matter as Michaels is retired, hopefully for good this time.  He can come and superkick whoever he wants and I will pop, it is just hard to convince me that one superkick is enough to hold an opponent down for the three-count in 2019.