Seth Rollins Details Origins Of The Stomp Finishing Move In WWE

Seth Rollins has detailed the origins of him using The Stomp as his finishing move in WWE after ‘stealing’ the move.

Ever since arriving on WWE television back in 2012, Seth Rollins has been using the Stomp as his finishing move, and he has now detailed the origins behind the move becoming his finisher.

Speaking on Games With Names, Rollins noted that he took the move from Alex Shelley of the Motor City Machine Guns, and that TJ Wilson was the one who told him to use it as his finishing move.

He said:

“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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