SquaredCircle's List of spectacular and legendary spots.

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Spectacular and Legendary Spots.

Incredible leaps and breath taking moments, the best of the memorable, the talked about and the astonishing. This is the list of the spots that reverberated with fans and left a mark on the history of wrestling folklore. This is SquaredCircle's list of spectacular and legendary spots.

The List:

• 1983 One of Jimmy Snucka's famous cage leaps

• 1986 Jim Cornette drops off the scaffold added for the lols.

• 1987 Hulk hype-tastically body slams Andre something he’d done before in 1983 NJPW for example for the legend and spectacle

• 1989 Cactus Jack’s notorious concrete bumps. 1990 Clash of Champions X - 1991 Beach Blast 1991 Foley did these week in week out in WCW from 89 onwards, relying on it less and less as he became into his own as a brawler. “Nestea Punge...”

• 1994 Michaels' splash on Ramon at WM10 relative to the time, the event and audience.

• 1995 ECW crowd chair throwing moment a legendary ‘spot’ through incident, but replayed countless of times regardless.

• 1997 Undertaker's first suicide dive at ground zero. He goes on to repeat it in more spectacular fashion throughout his career, WM27, montage set to Ramstein

• 1997 Shawn Michales drops off the cell

• 1997 Chyna slams cage door on Foley's head - Flair's head gets similar treatment on Nitro

• 1998 Spike Dudley is thrown into the crowd by Bigelow

• 1998 Rey mysterio lawn dart NWO

• 1998 Taz and Bam-Bam Bigelow fall through the ring, happened at ECW's Living Dangerously PPV, the audiences reaction speaks for its self. – Later to be repeated through the ramp

• 1998 Foley thrown off the cell and Through the cell at King of the Ring. Also takes thumbtack bumps which was new to US audiences.

• 1999 Foley takes a bump onto electrical equipment and 10 chair shots to the head whilst cuffed

• 1999 Shane O macs first Spanish announce table elbow drop – Which he goes onto perform many times notably at WM17 - 2000 Chokeslammed through the SAT

• 2000 Cactus Jack Pedigreed on Thumbtacks

• 2000 Foley through the cell II

• 2000 Mike Awesome Powrbomb and slide off a bus

• 2000 Rikishi Cage Splash

• 2000 Van terminator debut by RVD at ECW Heatwave - as done by shane o mac numerous times such as WM17 - or at no mercy 2003

• 2000 Shane 0-mac 'Leap of Faith' off the tiatontron Summerslam – 2001 Backlash – 2003 unforgiven

• 2000 Jeff Harvey first big Swanton RoyalRumble a move he’s repeated many times, out of interest here’s some of the bigger ones... 2000 WM - 2000 Summerslam TLC – 2001 Survivor Series - 2005 Bound for Glory – 2005 Against all odds - 2008 No Way Out - 2009 Summerslam

• 2000 Bubbah Dudley through 4 tables at TLCI – a spot that’s been used many times since: such as at WM17 - Michales Armageddon 2002 - Undertaker ONStand 2008

• 2000 Rikishi off the cell

• 2001 Jeff Hardy’s first big leg dropSmackdown 2001 TLCIII and... a few more 2007 WM23 - 2009 WM25

• 2001 Angle cage moonsault

• 2001 Edge Spears Jeff Hardy off ladder TLCII stand out moment in the midst of a spot fest.

• 2001 Kurt Angle throws Shane through glass

• 2002 Lesnar takes two wicked chair shots from the Hardys

• 2003 Brock's almost SSP at WM19

• 2003 Big show splats a stretcher bound Mysterio go to 6:35

• 2004 Elix Skipper cage walk frankensteiner

• 2004 Orton on the tacs relative the fact that it was unexpected and shocking at the time.

• 2004 HBK kicks Shelton's head off

• 2005 Snitsky eliminates Paul London from the RR

• 2003 Lesnar and Bigshow superplex breaks the ring

• 2006 Foley speared through fire table WM22

• 2007 Two amazing counters to the Briscoes' doomsday device

• 2008 Kaz midair Ultimate X leg drop

• 2011 AJ styles' massive elbow on Ray at Slammivesary

--Please help add to, improve and correct this list--

Criteria: Not Talked about for negative reasons such as a botch or severe injury. The first notable occurrence of something is usually the best example. Spots at deathmatch events, and New Jack-esque scaffolding spots, don't count as they aren't performed with a sense of contrast, and the crowd expects it.

If you know where a good clip is, link me to it, and if you're feeling extra helpful you can time link a youtube/dailymotion video.