In Wrestling
- Finishing moves
- Frog splash – 2012–present (WWE); 2005–2008 (TNA) (used as a tribute to Eddie Guerrero after his death)
- Killswitch (WWE) / Unprettier (TNA / WWE) / Impaler (WWF) (Inverted double underhook facebuster, sometimes from the second rope) – 1998–present
- Spear – 2011–present (used as a tribute to his friend Edge after his retirement)
- Signature moves
- Back heel kick followed by springboard sunset flip from the turnbuckle
- Baseball slide kick
- Cloverleaf – TNA
- Diving crossbody
- Diving headbutt
- Diving reverse elbow
- Dropkick, sometimes from the top rope
- Fireman's carry gutbuster
- Flapjack
- Flashpoint (Diving European uppercut)
- Hurricanrana, either while charging an opponent or off the top rope
- Inverted facelock backbreaker
- Multiple DDT variations
- Falling inverted
- Implant
- Inverted tornado
- Tornado
- One-man con-chair-to
- Pendulum overhead kick from out of the corner to an oncoming opponent
- Running forearm
- Sitout inverted suplex slam
- Slingshots out of the ring and slaps the opponent in the face.
- Spinebuster, sometimes into a sitout or while standing
- Springboard from out of the corner into either a plancha or a twisting sunset flip
- Stands on the shoulders of an opponent on the middle rope, choking them in the process
- With Edge
- Con-chair-to (Double steel folding chair shot to the head of an opponent)
- Nicknames
- "Creepy Little Bastard (CLB)" (WWE)
- "The New People's Champion" (WWE)
- "Captain Charisma" (WWE / TNA)
- "The Champ" (TNA)
- "The Instant Classic" (TNA)
- "The Livewire" (WWE)
- Managers
- Gangrel
- Terri Runnels
- Trish Stratus
- Lita
- (Tyson) Tomko
- Entrance themes
- "Blood" by Jim Johnston (used as part of The Brood) (WWF) (October 26, 1998 – July 12, 1999)
- "Blood Brother" by Jim Johnston (WWF) (December 23, 1999 – February 6, 2000)
- "At Last" by Jim Johnston (WWF/E) (October 21, 2001 – June 2003)
- "My Peeps" by Jim Johnston (WWE) (June 2003 – November 2004)
- "Just Close Your Eyes" by Waterproof Blonde (WWE) (November 14, 2004 – November 4, 2005)
- "Take Over" by Dale Oliver (TNA / ROH) (November 13, 2005 – November 13, 2008, June 10, 2012)
- "Just Close Your Eyes" by Story of the Year (WWE) (February 10, 2009–present)
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