During a recent appearance on the “Insight with Chris Van Vliet” podcast, former WWE World Heavyweight Champion Damian Priest commented on his career and the reason why he stopped using The Reckoning as his finisher.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On why he stopped doing the Reckoning as his finisher: “Actually, they didn’t say you can’t do it anymore. I do it differently but it’s one of those things. They’re like, ‘You might wanna …’ but they never said, ‘Change it.’”
On how Cody Rhodes executes the move differently: “If [Rhodes comes] back, and I’m doing this move, every time I hit it, people are gonna think of [him].’ He has his own twist, the way he hooks the arms and twists back and forth. I would do it more with taking my arm out and spinning underneath, but at the end of the day, it’s a Rolling Cutter, right? … Basically, anytime I face Cody, I’m gonna hit him with it.”
On trying submission hold: “I [haven’t] even started doing submissions yet, [of] which I got a few, and I have a different version of a Gogoplata. … It’s one thing paying homage to somebody. It’s one thing doing a similar move to somebody who works somewhere else. But when they’re working in the same company, on the same show, there’s gotta be a difference.”
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