Christopher Daniels reacts to Tiffany Stratton’s Prettiest Moonsault Ever: ‘Very cool of her’

Christopher Daniels appreciates Tiffany Stratton paying homage to him with her signature move.

Stratton — the current WWE Women’s Champion — uses the Prettiest Moonsault Ever as her finisher. It’s a takeoff of the Best Moonsault Ever that Daniels made famous, and he likes the fact that Stratton is keeping the move alive and putting her own spin on it.

“Which I thought was very, very cool of her,” Daniels said about the Prettiest Moonsault Ever name while appearing on a new episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet. “I don’t know Tiffany at all. I’ve never met her. But the fact that she didn’t just copy it, she sort of adjusted it, which is what the greats do. I feel like they don’t just steal — if we are inspired by something, we try to put our own little spin on it. And so the fact that she goes from the bottom all the way up and then to sort of like, pay homage, call it in that same vein, PME, I was like, that’s pretty cool. I can’t be mad at that.

“That was very cool of her. I appreciated it. Thanks, Tiffany.”

Daniels said he was inspired to do his own version of a moonsault by watching The Great Muta. Because Daniels is a fan of The Simpsons, he came up with Best Moonsault Ever as the name based on the Comic Book Guy character from the show.

WWE star Jacob Fatu also does his own version of the BME, which Daniels likes as well.

“The fact that Jacob is doing it and the fact that Tiffany’s doing it, it’s pretty cool,” he said. “And a lot of people are sort of pointing at me and going, ‘Oh, that came from you.’ And I’m like, okay, that’s nice. That’s a nice sort of feeling to have.”

Daniels, who retired as an active wrestler earlier this year, works behind the scenes in AEW as the promotion’s Head of Talent Relations. He was a champion for TNA and ROH during his three decades in the ring.