Claudio Castagnoli - in Wrestling

In Wrestling

• Finishing moves
  • As Antonio Cesaro
    • Neutralizer (Cradle belly to back inverted mat slam) – WWE / FCW
    • Very European Uppercut (Pop-up European uppercut) – FCW
  • As Claudio Castagnoli
    • Alpamare Waterslide (Independent circuit) / Swissblade (WWE) (Side Death Valley driver) – Independent circuit; used as a regular move in WWE
    • Inverted Chikara Special (Kneeling step-over head-hold armbar to a face down opponent followed by hooking the opponent's near leg) – Chikara
    • Lasartesse Lift (Karelin lift transitioned into a side piledriver) – 2007
    • Neutralizer (Over the shoulder single leg Boston crab with neckscissors) – PWG; used as a regular move elsewhere
    • Ricola Bomb (Straight jacket sitout powerbomb pin, sometimes from the top rope)
    • Roaring Swiss Uppercut (Discus European uppercut)
    • Swiss Death / Very European Uppercut (Pop-up European uppercut)

• Signature moves
  • Bicycle kick
  • Cravate
  • Double foot stomp
  • Giant swing
  • Jim Breaks Special (Lifting wrist-lock)
  • Match Killer (Horizontal belly to back suplex spun out into a sitout facebuster)
  • Money Dive (Diving headbutt)
  • Multiple European uppercut variations
    • Diving
    • Springboard
    • Swiss Uppercut (Standing, sometimes to the back of an opponent's head)
  • Multiple suplex variations
    • Delayed gutwrench
    • Delayed vertical
    • Ricola-Plex (Straight jacket)
  • Suicide dive
  • Swiss Sleeper Holding (Bridging cobra clutch)
  • UBS Neckbreaker (Backbreaker rack flipped into a cutter)
  • UFO (Spinning backbreaker rack, sometimes with no hands)
  • Very European Uppercut (Pop-up European uppercut)

• Managers
  • Jade Chung
  • SoCal Val
  • Prince Nana
  • Shane Hagadorn
  • Sara Del Rey
  • Aksana

• Nicknames
  • "Double C"
  • "The Most Money Making Man"
  • "The Stalwart Swiss Powerhouse"
  • "Very European"
  • "The Swiss Sensation"
  • "The Swiss Superman"

• Entrance themes
  • "I've Got to Have It (Instrumental)" by Jermaine Dupri featuring Nas and Monica
  • "We Are the Champions" by Queen (Used while teaming with Chris Hero)
  • "1812 Overture" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  • "Engel" by Rammstein (Used while a part of the Bruderschaft des Kreuzes)
  • "KoW (Kings)" by Cody B. Ware, Emilio Sparks and J. Glaze (Used while teaming with Chris Hero)
  • "Im Namen Der Bruderschaft" by Kenny Pickett (Used while a part of the Bruderschaft des Kreuzes)
  • "Miracle" by Jim Johnston (WWE)

• Wrestlers trained by Castagnoli