With Big Match John taking time away from WWE, we’re asked to remember the little things that made his United States Championship reign great. The great matches, the hilarious thought that he might actually lose one of them, and the Springboard Stunner. My God, the Springboard Stunner. “He didn’t get all of it!” Stone Cold Steve Austin, paterfamilias of the stunner, has gone on record as saying he wasn’t a fan of it, but it kept happening. Every time, it got a little worse.
Now that it appears to have been sent to a nice family up north to live and run around on a farm with other terrible moves, let’s take a moment to revisit every awkward Springboard Stunner ever. You can thank Maffew for this one, in case you didn’t recognize the font. All the classics are here: the WrestleMania one that made everyone say “HAHA WHAT THE F*CK WAS THAT,” the Cesaro counter that would’ve been cool in another life, the especially bad one Seth Rollins had to pantomime his way through, and more. “And he just barely caught it!”
Let’s hope the next installment is a tribute to the sunset flip powerbomb, and Cena’s OH GOD WE’RE BOTH GONNA DIE style of hitting it.
