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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]
The move is sometimes referred to as a spike DDT, because the defending wrestler lands in an upside-down, almost completely vertical position (known as the "spiked" position, which refers to when a wrestler is actually dropped vertically upside down). When this move is performed on an opponent draped on the first rope, then only it is called ...
Tajiri applying a camel clutch to Rene Bonaparte. The wrestler begins the hold by standing over a face-down opponent. The wrestler reaches down to pull the opposing wrestler up slightly, sits on the opponent's back, and places both of the opponent's arms across their thighs, usually locking at least one by placing the arm in the crook of their knee. [1]
Longson lost his title for the final time to Thesz on July 20, 1948, when Thesz elevated onto Longson's shoulders from the piledriver position and fell into a Thesz press. The following year, Thesz was awarded National Wrestling Alliance World Championship by default after champion Orville Brown was forced to retire after an automobile accident.
This move, often referred to as a monkey climb in British wrestling, involves an attacking wrestler, who is standing face-to-face with an opponent, hooking both hands around the opponent's head before then bringing up both legs so that they place their feet on the hips/waist of the opponent, making the head hold and the wrestlers' sense of ...
Originally published as simply Wrestling All Stars from 1983 to 1985. [1] [5] Wrestling As You Like It: 1946 - 1955: Monthly: Chicago, IL: Dick Axman: N/A: No: Earliest wrestling publication ever published and the only one active during the post-WWII years. Replaced by Wrestling Life in 1955. [4] [12] Wrestling Bad Guys: 1990s: Monthly United ...
Piledriver, a 1972 album by Status Quo; Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II, a 1987 album produced by the World Wrestling Federation; Piledriver (band), a Canadian thrash/heavy metal band; Piledriver (comics), a Marvel Comics villain "Piledriver" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode; The Piledriver, a drop tower ride at WWE Niagara ...
Any double-team move in which one wrestler help another to perform a piledriver on an opponent by pushing down on the opponent’s foot for more impact. In a variation of the move, the second wrestler jumps off the turnbuckle while pushing the opponent’s feet downward for even more damage, this is well known as a spike piledriver (not to be ...