A dramatic, high-impact spot designed to blow the crowd's mind. Dives to the outside, table spots, top-rope finishers, anything that makes the audience gasp. Modern wrestling has been criticized for overloading matches with highspots at the expense of psychology — if everything is a highspot, nothing is. The best matches use highspots as exclamation points, not the entire paragraph.
"He just did a springboard 450 splash to the outside through a table. That's not a highspot, that's a death wish."