Christian Cage Reveals How He Adopted The Killswitch As His Finisher

AEW star Christian Cage recently appeared on an episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet, where he talked about a number of topics including where he got the Killswitch move.

Cage said, โ€œAt the time Iโ€™m a student of the game, and โ€ฆ when I was coming up โ€” Iโ€™d watch a lot of tapes from different wrestling promotions and I was watching a Japanese, I believe it was an All Japan [Pro Wrestling] tape, and Tommy Rogers was on there and he did the Tomakaze and he didnโ€™t use it as a finish, he just used it as a spot in the match.โ€

On why he liked the move:

โ€œWhen I slowed down the turn, and when it stopped in this position where the guyโ€™s arms are over your shoulder, it just happened to stop in this positionโ€ฆ and I thought to myself: If the bottom just fell out right there it becomes like a piledriver and looks super devastatingโ€ฆ and itโ€™s something that I can do to anybody no matter what size they are.โ€

On originally planning to use the TKO, which Marc Mero asked if he could use instead:

โ€œEverything happens for a reason, and this finish suits me much more.โ€

You can check out Cage’s comments in the video below.