Rasslin’ phrases you wish you actually did coin?
By Scott Keith on 4 April 2024
Scott,
Ran across this story embedded in The Ringer story about Paul Heyman this week. I think you've said before that you didn't come up with “five moves of doom” or “finger poke of doom” and prolly won't take credit for “Smackdown Six;” but is there a phrase/nickname you did come up with that you wish woulda caught on which didn't? Orange Goblin? Because WCW? Love shoot comments that aren't supposed to be shoot comments? Charisma On A Pole Match?
I believe “shoot comments…” was Herb Kunze or CRZ so I can't claim that one. Really a lot of my writing style was an amalgam of John Petrie and Zimmerman. I certainly didn't come up with Five Moves of Doom for John Cena, but there's almost certainly a case that I might have been the one to coin it for Bret Hart and then it got moved to Cena. I do wish I had started using Because WCW a lot sooner, though. And there's still time for Dang Jethro to catch on, you just wait.