5 WWE finishers that were actually stolen from other wrestlers

Guerrero used the Frog Splash to win the WWE Championship, but the move wasn't actually his.
Guerrero used the Frog Splash to win the WWE Championship, but the move wasn't actually his.

3# The Tombstone Piledriver

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The Phenom has laid plenty of Superstars out with the Tombstone Piledriver.
The Phenom has laid plenty of Superstars out with the Tombstone Piledriver.

There is no move more closely connected to the legendary Undertaker than the Tombstone Piledriver.

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Though the Deadman has flirted with other moves such as the Hells Gate and the Last Ride, the piledriver will always be his number one finisher.

But at his 1990 Survivor Series debut, Gorilla Monsoon referred to the move as the Tombstone, before it had even been given a name on-screen.

This is because the move had already been used by the recently-passed Dynamite Kid Tom Billington bringing the move to North America in Stampede Wrestling.

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Billington reportedly learned the move from Black Mask in Japan, though it was actually Takao Omori who invented it.

Regardless of how it originated, the move is now synonymous with the Deadman as well as his younger brother Kane, who also terrorized opponents with the Tombstone.

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