Wednesday, September 16, 2009

The Best Moves Ever: MMA ELBOWS~!

CM Punk has beefed up/revamped his moveset since coming to the WWE, depending on whom you ask. One of the moves that I like so much has been the MMA ELBOWS~! he throws, as shown here in this amusing gif, featuring a little kid in Hardy paint looking horrified:



But, as with his other big-time moveset addition, Go 2 Sleep, this was a move that was never really his originally. Far be it for me to whine and cry about stealing moves like AJ Styles though. I actually don't mind when people lift moves from guys in other companies. However, as with the G2S, the original guy does them better, although the gap between Punk and Bryan Danielson isn't as wide with these elbows as it is between Punk and KENTA for the G2S. Yes, Danielson, has a lot of very obvious MMA influences in his wide moveset. The most used of those moves are his Triangle Choke and these, clubbing elbows that will break anyone down. Here he is destroying CIMA with them: