WWE SmackDown Superstar Cesaro recently appeared on Out of Character with Ryan Satin, where he talked about how he came up with “The Neutralizer” as his finishing move.
Cesaro said:
“Switzerland is neutral. If you neutralize somebody, you put them out of commission. It’s a wonderful pun. It’s a wonderful homage to my home country. I would like to take credit for it, but there may have been somebody else that said I should use it, and I said, ‘Ok, I’ll do it.’”
“When I came through the ranks, it was one of those, ‘Can you hit your finisher on anybody? Even the Big Show?’ I was like,’Let me show you.’ What move can I do that I literally could do to everybody after 30 minutes of a grueling wrestling match, that I could do 5 or 6 days a week? I wanted to have something that was super effective, fun, and I could do to everybody. What is usually scary is people are super sweaty or they slip or something like that, but there’s nobody that I was like, ‘That was a terrible neutralizer.’ It’s always fun to do it to Big Show, Khali, or Mark Henry, somebody that’s really big that’s a challenge. Then you find different ways to get into it. I love it.”
You can check out Cesaro's comments in the video below:
