Seth Rollins Reveals Who He Stole Iconic Finishing Move From
Very little is original in the world of pro wrestling, and now Seth Rollins has revealed where he got his devastating finishing move from.
Seth Rollins has won world championships with his dreaded Stomp for over a decade now. Rollins captured his first WWE Championship at WrestleMania 31 when he cashed in his Money In The Bank briefcase during the main event between Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar.
But despite pulling off the heist of the century, the most replayed moment featuring Rollins from that show came when he attempted his Stomp on Randy Orton earlier in the night, only to fall victim to one of the most famous RKOs of all time.
While Orton’s iconic RKO has its roots in Johnny Ace’s Ace Crusher, Seth Rollins’ own Stomp also came from elsewhere.
Seth Rollins Yoinked The Stomp
Speaking on Games With Names, Seth Rollins admitted he stole the Stomp from a current WWE star, and it was a producer for the company that told Rollins to make it his finisher:
The Stomp, I stole it. Straight up yoinked it. I stole it from Alex Shelley, who wrestles in WWE now. He stole it from a Japanese wrestler named (Naomichi) Marufuji. Marufuji is like a God when it comes to innovating wrestling moves.
Neither of them ever did it as a finishing move though. I think I was the first person to ever do it as ‘bam, finish’. I was on a live event in 2010 or 11, and at the time I was doing a different finisher but using the Stomp as a signature move, and it just looked so nasty that the guy producing the show TJ Wilson, who is still a producer for WWE now, he was like ‘you should really think about using that as your finish finish’.
The next night, had another non-televised event, I did it as the finish and then that was my finish from then on.