Seth Rollins has been one of WWE’s top stars for a long time now and he’s faced off against some of the biggest names in the business. Rollins has used a variety of different finishers throughout his career, but he is most commonly associated with the Stomp.
While talking about the Stomp on Games With Names, Seth Rollins revealed that he stole the move from Alex Shelley, and he also noted that TJ Wilson (Tyson Kidd) suggested that he start using it as his finisher after he saw The Visionary use it at a live event.
“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.”
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