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Best Wrestling Move                     

Award Description:

To be given to the move that is just the damn best thing you've seen this
past year. This should probably be a "finishing" move or something really
spectacular.

Previous Winners:

  1990: Scott Steiner's Frankensteiner
  1991: Scott Steiner's Frankensteiner
  1992: Jushin Liger's moonsault off the second ropes to floor
  1993: Big Van Vader's moonsault
  1994: Vader's moonsault
  1995: Hakushi's Space Flying Tiger Drop
  1996: Wildman Marc Mero's Wild Thing shooting star press
  1997: Bret Hart's figure four leglock around the ringpost
  1998: Rock's People's Elbow elbowdrop
  1999: Jeff Hardy's senton bomb
  2000: Jeff Hardy's swantonbomb senton
  2001: Rob van Damn's Five Star frog splash
  2002: Brock Lesnar's F-5 fireman carry neckbreaker

**2003**: Brock Lesnar's F-5 fireman carry neckbreaker

127 first place votes
125 second place votes
122 third place votes

 17 10 11  137   Brock Lesnar's F-5 fireman carry neckbreaker
 10  8 10   94   Victoria's Widow's Peak Gory Special into neckbreaker
  8  8  7   78   Kurt Angle's running belly-to-belly superplex
  8  7  6   73   AJ Styles' Styles Clash tarantula into facefirst drop
  6  2  6   48   Rey Mysterio's 619 swingout kick
  3  5  8   46   Charlie Haas' Haas of Pain leglock
  5  5  2   44   Eddie Guerrero's rolling vertical suplexes
  3  8  1   41   Chris Benoit's triple German suplex
  4  4  2   36   Spanky's Sliced Bread #2 shiranui
  4  3  3   35   Sonjay Dutt's Hindu Press
  2  5  3   31   Ultimo Dragon's Asai DDT
  3  5  0   30   John Cena's F-U death valley driver
  4  1  0   23   America's Most Wanted's Death Sentence cradle guillotine
                 legdrop
  3  2  1   23   Chris Benoit's Crippler crossface
  2  4  0   22   Rob van Dam's Five Star frog splash
  1  3  4   22   Rey Mysterio's West Coast Pop springboard huracanrana
  2  0  5   20   Triple H's Pedigree
  1  4  1   19   Molly Holly's Molly-Go-Round somersault press
  2  2  1   18   Spanish Announce Team's Spanish Fly double backflip superplex
  2  2  1   18   Billy Kidman's shooting star press
  3  0  1   17   Jimmy Yang's Yang Time sky twister press
  1  1  4   16   Trish Stratus' Matrix
  0  1  6   15   Tajiri's Kick
  1  2  1   13   Randy Orton's RKO
  1  2  1   13   Christopher Daniels' Angel's Wings sitout face-first piledriver
  1  0  3   11   Christian's Unprettier DDT
  1  1  1   10   Kurt Angle's anklelock
  0  3  0    9   Eddie Guerrero's armdrag-leg scissors combo
  0  1  3    9   Kurt Angle's Angle slam
  1  1  0    8   Frankie Kazarian's Wave of the Future
  1  0  1    7   Steve Austin's Stone Cold Stunner
  1  0  1    7   Keiji Muto's Shining Wizard knee
  1  0  1    7   Hiroyoshi Tenzan's Anaconda Vice
  1  0  1    7   Big Show's chokeslam
  0  2  0    6   Raven's Evenflow DDT
  1  0  0    5   YOSSINO's From Jungle headscissors into facelock
  1  0  0    5   Ultimo Guerrero's Guerrero Special top rope inverted superplex
  1  0  0    5   Trish Stratus' Chick kick
  1  0  0    5   Sting's Stinger Splash
  1  0  0    5   Steven Richards' Steviekick superkick
  1  0  0    5   Steve Williams' Doctorbomb
  1  0  0    5   Samoa Joe's MuscleBuster off the top rope
  1  0  0    5   Randy Orton's Orthodox backbreaker
  1  0  0    5   Mammoth Sasaki's Mammoth Home Run
  1  0  0    5   Kazunari Murakami's double foot stomp to the face
  1  0  0    5   Josh Barnett's Captured Buster
  1  0  0    5   Jay Briscoe's Jay-Driller double underhook piledriver
  1  0  0    5   Jason Cross's Crossfire shooting star legdrop
  1  0  0    5   Homicide's Cop Killa
  1  0  0    5   Haas & Benjamin's top rope choke & leapfrog
  1  0  0    5   Goldberg's Jackhammer
  1  0  0    5   Elix Skipper's Play of the Day
  1  0  0    5   Dudley Boyz' Dudley Death Drop
  1  0  0    5   Cade Sydal's Cherry Popper
  1  0  0    5   Amazing Red's Code Red sunset flip bomb
  0  1  1    5   Chris Jericho's Lionsault quebrada
  0  1  1    5   Chris Benoit's top rope headbutt
  0  1  1    5   Amazing Red's Infrared corkscrew moonsault
  0  0  2    4   Shawn Michaels' Sweet Chin Music superkick
  0  0  2    4   Chris Jericho's Walls of Jericho boston crab
  0  1  0    3   Ultimo Dragon's inverted ace crusher
  0  1  0    3   Slim J's springboard corkscrew Asai moonsault
  0  1  0    3   Shinsuke Nakamura's Shining Triangle
  0  1  0    3   Rock's Rock Bottom uranage
  0  1  0    3   Rock's People's Elbow elbowdrop
  0  1  0    3   Mutoh & Arashi's Shining Impact
  0  1  0    3   Mr. Gannosuke's Fire Thunder
  0  1  0    3   Matt Sydal's springboard 450
  0  1  0    3   Hurricane's Shining Wizard kick
  0  1  0    3   Frankie Kazarian's Flux Compacitor
  0  1  0    3   Elix Skipper's rope walk huracanrana
  0  1  0    3   Eddie Guerrero's frog splash
  0  1  0    3   Dragon Kid's Deja Vu multiple spin headscissors
  0  1  0    3   Diamond Back Dingo's Dingo Driver
  0  1  0    3   Curt Hennig's Hennigplex fisherman suplex
  0  1  0    3   Chris Jericho's Flashback
  0  1  0    3   Bradshaw's Clothesline From Hell lariat
  0  1  0    3   Adam Booker's Bookdaddy flapjack
  0  0  1    2   Yuji Nagata's Nagata Lock III
  0  0  1    2   X's Package Piledriver
  0  0  1    2   Tajiri's Tarantula
  0  0  1    2   Shelton Benjamin's superkick
  0  0  1    2   Shawn Davari's Flying Carpet
  0  0  1    2   Scott Steiner's belly to belly suplex
  0  0  1    2   Scorpio's Tumbleweed
  0  0  1    2   Rob van Dam's Van Terminator dropkick
  0  0  1    2   Randy Orton's crossbody
  0  0  1    2   Randy Orton's across the back neckbreaker
  0  0  1    2   Mr. Gannosuke's Gannosuke Clutch
  0  0  1    2   Hurricane's Eye of the Storm
  0  0  1    2   Delirious' Shadows Over Hell splash
  0  0  1    2   Chris Hero's Hangman's Clutch STF
  0  0  1    2   Chris Benoit's 270 degree release German suplex
  0  0  1    2   Billy McNeil's Trigger Effect
  0  0  1    2   American Dragon's Cattle Mutilation

REJECTED - no performer named

  1  0  0        630 Splash
  1  0  0        stardust press
  1  0  0        release german suplex
  1  0  0        headlock
  0  1  0        vertical suplex
  0  1  0        Booker T's Spinarooni (not a wrestling move)
  0  0  1        flying elbow
  0  0  1        dropkick

CRIMEFIGHTER:  The shooting star is still the most thrilling move in
wrestling.  Sliced Bread #2 proved effective for an unknown to break out
and everyone likes the 619.

YNAE316: The 619 is still fun to watch.  Victoria's "Widow's Peak" gets my
second place vote as it just looks incredibly painful.  Trish's "Matrix"
move, while a defensive maneuver is just beautiful to watch.

SCOTT CHRIST: I voted for Sting's Stinger Splash because that's my
gimmick. Usually I just vote for moves that get me to pop, so second to
Benoit's triple German suplex, third to Michaels' superkick.

RYAN FAULCONER: YOSSINO's spinning headscissors into an armbar is
simultaneously preposterous and fluid and that makes it the year's best
move.  Dragon Kid's Deja Vu headscissors still impresses after all these
years.  Its even better now that he rarely botches it.

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