Melo opens up about his finisher.
There are several signature moves that Carmelo Hayes has in his repertoire, but his finishing maneuver is often his ‘Nothing But Net’ leg drop from the top rope.
He dove into that as he was speaking to Toronto Sun. He said he’s learned how to perfectly deliver it to make sure he’s not taking the brunt of it on the comedown. Hayes added that he’s playing around with finding a new finisher.
I mean, I used to do it (‘Nothing But Net’) on the independents but it was a throwaway, you know what I mean? You don’t know better, what’s what and then you get to WWE and your skills get honed and I remember Shawn (Michaels), he was the one — I remember I brought it up. I was like, ‘I can do this move off the top rope,’ and I was working with a bunch of big guys at that time. I was in the Breakout tournament. I was working Josh Briggs and Duke Hudson and Odyssey (Jones) so I was working these huge guys and I remember thinking, I need a finish. Something that I can do and I was like, ‘I can do this move’ and I remember coach (Matt) Bloom mentioned, he’s like, ‘Hey, I just want to let you know, that’s a big move. It’s not a move you’re gonna be able to do every night.’ I was like, ‘Hold on, I don’t plan on it,’ and then Shawn had just been — that was his jam. ‘You gotta have a finish that’s over and everybody knows’ and so he was very adamant, like, ‘You’re hitting your finish, you’re hitting your finish’ and here we are and people think it takes more out of me than it really does. I’ve perfected it. I understand exactly where I need to land so I’m not taking the brunt of it. I understand how far I need — you know what I mean? I can hit it at any point. I’ve done it over a 100 times so I mean, that’s kind of what I’m going with. Now, I am playing with finding a different finish. Because I have a deep moveset that I can throw in there here and there so, I’m looking into something else possibly.
Hayes has scored two consecutive wins on Friday Night SmackDown. He picked up victories over Akira Tozawa and R-Truth.
The next edition of SmackDown is on 2/21 from New Orleans, Louisiana.
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