Post by IamAres on Apr 10, 2020 16:31:28 GMT
Probably intended for Kojima, though.
The spine bomb in fire pro predates D-Lo being in the games (he was only in FPR) and is done very differently (he would grab the guy on both sides of the body and pop them up into it from a standing start).
I said Al Snow was the golden standard for the move because he did it better than anyone else I've seen. (I'm pretty sure D-Lo did the Sky High in the first place as tribute, as Al was one of his trainers.) He didn't do it in every match, but he for sure did it - that was something Smackdown got right for once.
If you can find the Leif Cassidy/Shawn Michaels match from Raw in February or March of 1996 (shortly before Mania, in other words), I know that's a good example of him hitting that move, as well as the exact moment I became an Al Snow fan. He started doing it differently later on, out of a uranage/exploder clutch - that's the version that made it into Smackdown.
EDIT: found it. youtu.be/WnjEAvJMny8
Go to about 3:48 for the move itself, or just check out the match, which is really good for a 1996 Raw match.
