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Professional wrestling holds include a number of set moves and pins used by performers to immobilize their opponents or lead to a submission. This article covers the various pins, stretches and transition holds used in the ring. Some wrestlers use these holds as their finishing maneuvers, often nicknaming them to reflect their character or persona.
The Boston crab is a professional wrestling hold that typically starts with one wrestler lying in a supine position on the mat, with the other wrestler standing and facing them. It is a type of spinal lock where the wrestler hooks each of the opponent’s legs in one of their arms and then turns the opponent face-down, stepping over them in the ...
Edge, applying the variation of a kneeling sharpshooter on CM Punk. Natalya applying a double sharpshooter on Eve Torres and Layla.. While Bret Hart is the wrestler with whom the Sharpshooter is most often associated, Ronnie Garvin and Sting were the first wrestlers to prolifically use the hold in North America, during which time it was called the "Scorpion Deathlock", deriving from the ...
Nov. 30—FRANKLIN SPRINGS, Ga. — Homestanding Emmanuel hung around going into the last bout, but a major decision from Massimo Sullivan clinched the victory for the Braves Wednesday night in ...
The spladle is a wrestling technique commonly used as a counter and pinning move to single leg take downs. When opponents shoot in and grab the leg the wrestler will drop their weight on the opponents head to prevent advancement of the take down, from there they may reach across the body with their arms to grab hold of the opponents far side ...
AMES – Iowa wrestling coach Tom Brands was sitting at a press conference table inside Hilton Coliseum on Sunday following another win over Iowa State when he turned his attention elsewhere.
Rotational wristlock by an Aikido instructor. A rotational wristlock (in budo referred to as kote hineri, and in Aikido referred to as a type of sankyō, 三教, "third teaching") [5] [6] is a very common type of wristlock, and involves forced supination or pronation of the wrist, and is typically applied by grabbing and twisting the hand.
The real-life family reigned supreme in the sports world during the 1980s, coining the now iconic hold dubbed “the iron claw.” The Iron Claw is not just a wrestling movie – that’s not A24 ...