5 Best moves of Finn Balor

Finn Balor is one of the best performers on Monday Night RAW. He is the inaugural and the first ever Universal Champion in the WWE. Balor is also a former and the longest ever reigning NXT Champion in WWE. He defeated Roman Reigns and Sami Zayn in a triple threat match qualifying match and is thus a participant in the Men's 2018 Money in the Bank Ladder Match.

Finn Balor has wrestled across the world in several pro-wrestling organizations. In Japan, he was larger than life performer in NJPW. He has defeated wrestlers of varying sizes and has been a Champion almost everywhere he had to step his foot into. The major reason behind his success (despite not being a heavyweight superstar) is his ability to utilize his speed and agility to perform several innovative shots.

His unique wrestling skills have made him a larger than life superstar in the WWE. Below are five of his vicious moves, which have helped him to incapacitate wrestlers and emerge as a winner in the professional pro-wrestling industry. This moves might not look dangerous but can be very effective to anybody, upon whom it is applied.

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#5 Enzuigiri

This move might look easy, however, to perform this move accurately, one needs to have utmost concentration and flexibility. A slight mistake can cause an accident to the player himself who is performing the move. To perform this maneuver, the player needs to use his legs to strike at the back of his opponents. It has taken years for Finn Balor to perform this move with cent percent perfection.

Despite all the complexity involved, Finn Balor can pull this move easily owing to his less body weight. He is a master of the ropes and can use it to pull any moves. He uses this move of his in almost every match. It helps him to weaken his opponents and thus he can prepare and execute his next move.

In both of his title matches- NXT Championship and Universal Championship, he used this move and it paid off and he became the Champion. This move makes number 5 on our list.

#4 Shotgun Dropkick/ Corner Running Dropkick

This is a highly vicious move, which can cause grave injury to any players. Balor performs this move upon his fellow contestant and it blows the air out of them. He runs towards his opponent s direction and kicks them hard such that they fall hard on the turnbuckle.

The player's head hit hard on the turnbuckle and it can cause fatal injury. Being a professional pro-wrestling competitor, Balor has perfected this move, such that, this move will annihilate the player but won't cause any serious injury.

Once Balor delivers this move, he wins 50 of the battle already. The effectiveness of this move is very high and thus it grabs the number four position on this list.

#3 Sling Blade

This is another of Balor's defense mechanism where he uses his opponents speed to his advantage. The other wrestler comes to his direction and he performs a reverse slam over the opponent's shoulder. To perform this move with absolute perfection, Balor uses both his hands to deliver the shot.

This move gives the edge to Balor over his competitors, as once they fell down, Balor starts preparing for his next move. This move is a gamechanger and has helped Balor to win several Championship across the globe. Thus it makes the number three position on our list.

#2 Baseball Slide

The move is named so because it is similar to a baseball player sliding into a base. This move is mostly used by lightweight wrestlers, and, thus Finn Balor keeps it at his disposition. Whenever any wrestler slithers out of the ring and tries to get inside, Balor performs the Baseball Slide upon them to prevent him from catching his pace.

This move affects most heavy-weight players as because of this move they often fail to beat the 10 count resulting in a count out loss. While several other players have to use this shot, none can deliver it like the way Balor does. This separates him from the rest of the players.

#1 Coup de Grâce

This move is mainly used by Balor as his finishing or signature move upon his opponents. Balor incapacitates his opponents and makes them lie down with their chest upwards. He climbs the turnbuckle and from the top, he jumps onto his opponent's body, especially upon his chest.

This move chokes the air of his opponent lungs and gives momentum to Balor. Balor usually performs a pinfall post this move, and most of the time he has been able to secure victory after this. He has performed this move upon players like Braun Strowman, Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins and several others. It has helped him to secure the victory and is thus number 1 on the list.