During a recent episode of his podcast, The Taz Show, former ECW and WWE Superstar and Impact Wrestling announcer Taz shared the story about the suplex he gives himself credit for naming and introducing to the business.
Taz used a number of different suplexes during his run, particularly as the World Champion in the original ECW, however according to him, the T-Bone Suplex is the one that he should get credit for.
“That’s what I named it,” said Taz. “Whatever people called it, but that’s what I called it. I kinda named it. And [for] simple reasons; it looked like a T, right? I was grabbing you like a T, I was grabbing between your legs and around your waist, it was like a T motion from the side. And I would turn you in the air where I was the base of the T and you were the top part, the horizontal part of the T. And that’s why I called it a T-bone, and everybody loves a T-bone steak. Of course you gotta put over T-bone steak, right? So, that’s where that came from.”
The veteran of the business also explained his belief that suplexes are becoming the new superkicks, in that they are often overused by many of the younger talents in their matches.
“When it’s used too much in a match, and when a suplex is used in the wrong time in a match, I used to try to very rarely, very, very rarely use a suplex early in the match,” said Taz. “Because people were expecting a suplex from me, so I made them wait.”
Check out the complete episode of The Taz Show at Stitcher.com.