Jon Moxley had a very successful run with WWE which saw him win the WWE Championship, among several other titles, and he also got to face off against some of the biggest names in the business.
When he first arrived on the scene his finisher, Dirty Deeds, was a headlock driver, but eventually he switched things up and started using a double arm DDT.
Moxley recently spoke to Fightful about why he altered his finisher, and he revealed that it was Randy Orton who inspired him to change it.
“The Headlock Driver’s awesome if you’ve got the right guy doing it to the right guy. It can be like the nastiest, coolest piledriver looking thing in the world or if the guy’s taller than you, which so many of the guys in the WWE were taller than me, it can be just really awkward and stupid looking. I think I gave it to Randy Orton one time, who is someone with a significant height advantage on me, it just was awkward. I was like, “That’s it, I’m switching this up.” It was [Joey Mercury’s idea, actually,] to switch to the double arm DDT and I’d never really done that before. I really kind of perfected the timing and the snap and now I can do it in my sleep. One of the better looking ones I think you’ll see.”
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