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human
[Kayfabe] Why do finishers work in wrestling?

I mean they're just normal moves that the wrestler gives a name, are they more powerful because they practice them a lot?


Because the DDT was a finisher once but now that everyone does it it lost it's power what happened?

Is it because the opponent is usually exhausted before they do it? If so wouldn't any other hard hitting move do the same thing?
gpt
Wrestling moves are very much subject to power creep. Back in the day Jake the Snake Roberts would finish somebody with the DDT and there was no defense. You were down, done for, over.

But over time wrestlers developed ways to defeat the DDT, they learned how to do it, more importantly they learned how to survive  it. Another big factor is the wrestling corollary to Moores law which measures the the logarithmic rate at which wrestlers improve over time. This is expressed in Hogan Ear Cuppy Gestures in which the famous wrestler indicates that his awesomeness has grown so great it's blocked up his ears making him unable to hear the audience.