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Attack Pro Wrestling (stylized as ATTACK!Pro Wrestling) is a Welsh professional wrestling promotion owned and operated by wrestler Mark Andrews. [1]Although ATTACK was originally established in 2011 by wrestler Pete Dunne and ring announcer Jim Lee, from February 2012 the promotion became solely owned by Dunne (when Jim stepped-down as co-owner/promoter), with the events managed by a regularly ...
Aerial techniques, also known as "high-flying moves" are performance techniques used in professional wrestling for simulated assault on opponents. The techniques involve jumping from the ring's posts and ropes, demonstrating the speed and agility of smaller, nimble and acrobatically inclined wrestlers, with many preferring this style instead of throwing or locking the opponent.
Professional wrestling contains a variety of punches and kicks found in martial arts and other fighting sports; the moves listed below are more specific to wrestling itself. Many of the moves below can also be performed from a raised platform (the top rope, the ring apron, etc.); these are called aerial variations .
United World Wrestling – the governing body for Olympic wrestling; WWE; New Japan Pro-Wrestling – is by attendance and revenue the second largest sports entertainment organization in the world, behind WWE; Consejo Mundial de Lucha Libre – is the world's oldest wrestling organization, specializing in the Lucha Libre style. Founded in ...
In professional wrestling, a cutter is a 3 ⁄ 4 facelock bulldog [1] maneuver. This move sees an attacking wrestler first apply a 3 ⁄ 4 facelock (reaching back and grabbing the head of an opponent, thus pulling the opponent's jaw above the wrestler's shoulder) before falling backwards (sometimes after running forwards first) to force the ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... This hold is a staple of European style wrestling and technical wrestling influenced by European wrestling. ... This attack is ...
Professional wrestling throws are the application of professional wrestling techniques that involve lifting the opponent up and throwing or slamming them down. They are sometimes also called "power" maneuvers, as they are meant to emphasize a wrestler's strength.
Chief Ade (right) executes a leg drop. Hulk Hogan performing the Atomic Leg Drop (running leg drop) on Mr. McMahon. A leg drop or legdrop refers to an attack used in professional wrestling in which an attacking wrestler will jump and land his leg across a fallen opponent's chest, throat, face or head or in some cases, the groin/lower-abdominal area.