The Double-Arm DDT - Who Did It Best?

#3 Dean Ambrose

Ambrose has been using this move for only a few years, since he had to change it for safety reasons

Dean Ambrose has actually used two different moves that he called ‘Dirty Deeds’. The first was a type of Headlock Driver which, as you can imagine, was deemed too dangerous by WWE because the victim had a much harder time landing in a safe position. Since then, Ambrose has used the Double-Arm DDT variant, and does it decently well.

The reason Ambrose’s version doesn’t rank higher is because the impact doesn’t look very strong. In the video below, you can see that most of his opponents aren’t even lifted off the ground but simply drop to their knees, which appears to take all the force of the move.

In most cases, the person taking Dirty Deeds doesn’t even ‘bump’ upwards to sell the impact or do a flip over to sell the landing; they just crumple flat to the mat. Maybe if Ambrose changed his move up a bit to actually lift his opponent instead of quickly dropping to the mat, his Dirty Deeds would look more powerful as a finisher.