The Shooting Star Press has become the sort of benchmark of high-flying moves allowed in the mainstream (read: WWE). It has been done by only a few people stateside, most recently by Evan Bourne. The move's origin comes from Japan though, by the legendary Jushin Thunder Liger. Liger innovated the move, and here's one of the early uses of it from 1990:
For fans like us who've seen this move done from standing position, it might not be all that impressive to watch, but at the time, as with many of the things that folks like Liger, Sasuske, Benoit, Guerrero, Art Barr, Misawa, Kawada and the like were doing, it was a sight to behold.
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