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The way I see it, if nobody uses the move anymore it dies off and becomes another lost memory that the generation of kids who never saw Austin have no frame of reference for.
But the tombstone style piledriver isn't going away. Okada uses it. The Bucks do it as a team move. Imagine if after Page made the Diamond Cutter such a massive finisher it got unofficially retired and we never had the RKO. I see it as a good thing to keep moves alive.
Obviously I'm arguing from the perspective that if you keep a move alive, it's actually honoring the legend more than if you let the move die off. That being said I prefer the RKO approach. Randy jumps into his cutter, which was a small thing but it was a setup to the move that was entirely his own thing made the RKO different from the Diamond Cutter. I wish Owens could use the stunner but find some unqiue Kevin Owens thing to make it his own. Perhaps he can do an inverted stunner facing the guy, aka a jawbreaker. Or like when he jumped into it on Roman Reigns without the kick to setup. A Stunner out of nowhere so to speak.
It's a small thing but I think unique flair would help smooth this out for you.
But the tombstone style piledriver isn't going away. Okada uses it. The Bucks do it as a team move. Imagine if after Page made the Diamond Cutter such a massive finisher it got unofficially retired and we never had the RKO. I see it as a good thing to keep moves alive.
Obviously I'm arguing from the perspective that if you keep a move alive, it's actually honoring the legend more than if you let the move die off. That being said I prefer the RKO approach. Randy jumps into his cutter, which was a small thing but it was a setup to the move that was entirely his own thing made the RKO different from the Diamond Cutter. I wish Owens could use the stunner but find some unqiue Kevin Owens thing to make it his own. Perhaps he can do an inverted stunner facing the guy, aka a jawbreaker. Or like when he jumped into it on Roman Reigns without the kick to setup. A Stunner out of nowhere so to speak.
It's a small thing but I think unique flair would help smooth this out for you.