WWE Raw star and a former two times WWE World Champion The Miz who is also a former eight times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently talked about wrestling Legend Dean Malenko and thanked him for coming up with his finisher that is known as The Skull Crushing Finale.
Professional wrestling legend Dean Malenko is often regarded as “The Man with Thousand Holds.” He is one of the most creative professional wrestlers in the history of the industry. He is not only famous as a wrestler but as a trainer as well. He trained some of the biggest names in today’s wrestling industry.
The Miz Thanks Dean Malenko For Coming Up With His Finisher
Malenko was a pretty famous name during his WCW career where he was one of the biggest attraction of the Cruiserweight division of the promotion which was pretty famous. He was also a pretty big name on the mid card division of WCW. When he arrived in WWE as a part of the Radicalz, everybody expected a huge push for the former four times WCW Cruiserweight champion.
That did not happen, unfortunately. He mostly featured on the Light Heavyweight division of WWE and he went on to win the WWE Light Heavyweight Championship two times in total. But he faced some massive injuries that prevented WWE from pushing him to the top. However, he earned a lot of respect as a trainer in the performance centre.
The Miz who is also a former eight times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently spoke to on his TikTok account where he talked about wrestling Legend Dean Malenko and thanked him for coming up with his finisher that is known as The Skull Crushing Finale. He said;
“How did I come up with my finisher? So, if you remember, I used to wear shorts, and I was a tag team Superstar, and one time, the one time I wore trunks, literally from then on I was wearing trunks for the rest of my life, like the rest of my career, like it was just happening.
“So once that switch happened to trunks, I had to find a new finisher, and a new character, and a new kind of just, be more serious. So, I went with Dean Malenko and Arn Anderson and every live event, every television, Monday Night Raw, like we would literally be like, just racking our brains on different finishers. I had that had the knee DDT, which everyone thought was a half DDT, So they were like, ‘No.’
“Then I had the knee lift into the neck breaker, which was my former one, and I called it a Reality Check. And they were like, ‘That’s just not a finisher’ and then I re-upped it and I said, ‘Well, what if I do it into one move and I do it on my knee into a neckbreaker?’ There they still ‘That’s not enough.’
“And one day Dean was like, ‘Why don’t you try and do like a full nelson and sweep a front of his leg and see if that works. And we did it and everyone seemed to like it. I liked it because I could do it pretty much on everybody. And so that is how the Skull Crushing Finale was created.”
Quotes via Inside The Ropes