Damian Priest had a notable change of finisher since the rumors of a new arrival, but he says it was his call to switch things up and no one else’s.
Damian Priest recently spoke to Denton Day and commented on what inspired him to recently switch his finisher. Priest had been using The Reckoning, which is similar to Cody Rhodes’ Cross Rhodes, and fans speculated that Priest switching his move was a sign of Rhodes’ arrival.
Priest explained how nobody in the company’s creative team nor Vince McMahon asked him to stop using The Reckoning due to the potential pending arrival of Cody Rhodes, but he asked to switch back to the Razor’s Edge himself.
“No, I asked to bring back the Razor’s Edge just part of my move set. For many years the Razor’s Edge was a move that — it’s not like a banned move but it was a move that Vince [McMahon] wasn’t really a fan of because some wrestlers had been injured in the past. I remember having a talk with Triple H while I was in NXT about it and because of Scott Hall, he knew how much of a fan I was and I told him that I’d like to use it and he said ‘let’s see, I’ll give you a shot to use it’ and then I did it safely and he was like ‘ok, no problem!’
“Fast forward and it’s the same situation and Vince was like ‘ah, I don’t know, let’s see’ and he even said it, he said ‘if you can do it like Razor, then yeah’ and then I did it and he was okay with it, he felt comfortable and he thought it looked good. It’s a powerful move, it’s part of the repertoire. But I know everybody read a lot into it, the idea was solely that I wanted to do a move and I did the move, you know? I do a chokeslam, which I used to finish off opponents with, but now it’s just a part of my repertoire. I have The Reckoning that I’ve used more and lately, I’ve been contemplating using a submission hold. So, it all comes down to me and at times, yes, we’re asked to do some different but no, nobody’s asked me about anything, it’s all been about me asking them.”
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