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Animation of a piledriver. A piledriver is a professional wrestling driver move in which the wrestler grabs their opponent, turns them upside-down, and drops into a sitting or kneeling position, driving the opponent head-first into the mat. [1] The technique is said to have been innovated by Wild Bill Longson. [2]
As the name suggests the wrestler would first use a tilt-a-whirl to raise the opponent into a belly-to-belly (piledriver) position, from here the wrestler would fall forward planting the opponent into the mat back-first. Matt Riddle uses a cradle variant dubbed the Bro-Derek.
El Hijo del Santo would work for AAA until mid-1995 and then leave the promotion due to disagreements over pay and position on the shows, jumping to rival CMLL in the process. [26] In subsequent years, Hijo del Santo expressed a lot of criticism of AAA, but did work with them for one match in 2009; he then claimed AAA did not pay him what they ...
From that position the wrestler rolls forward into a sitting position, pulling the opponent over backwards and down to the mat so that they land on their back into a sitout pin position. While being held on the shoulders of an attacking wrestler in a position where the opponent is straddling the head of the attacking wrestler while facing in ...
Shortly after, Knoble eliminated Yang with a jumping reverse piledriver. Moore then eliminated Knoble with a Bottoms Up. Helms followed it up by eliminating Moore with a Nightmare on Helms Street and then pinned Hayashi after a Vertebreaker to win the match and earn the title shot for Greed. [3] [4]
From this position the wrestlers can lift the opponent up into the air and drop them onto the mat, or lift the opponent up and drop to a kneeling position so that the opponent drops onto their knees. This double team move is more common with lighter wrestlers or wrestlers with an old school style.
It was followed by a six-man tag team match featuring wrestlers who either failed to qualify for the tournament or lost in the opening round. The team of Colt Cabana, Jerome Robinson and Johnny Goodtime took on Austin Aries and The Cutler Brothers. Robinson hit a tiger feint kick and a reverse piledriver to Brandon Cutler for the win.
Cutlers hit a double-team kneeling reverse piledriver to Matt for the win. [3] Next, Brandon Gatson took on Ryan Taylor. Gatson hit a corner splash and delivered a sit-out side powerslam to Taylor for the win. [3] Next, Joey Ryan took on Chuck Taylor. Ryan delivered That 70's Kick twice to Taylor for the win. [3] Next, Paul London took on ...