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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]
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.
On WWE's Legends of Wrestling in 2009, longtime industry personality Jim Ross stated that he "didn't like" Sweetan and "didn't want to be around him", describing him as a "miserable human being". [7] Ross later called him a "bully", [ 8 ] and told how Danny Hodge once physically tortured Sweetan as payback for being out of line. [ 1 ]
Paul Parlette Orndorff Jr. (October 29, 1949 – July 12, 2021), nicknamed "Mr. Wonderful", was an American professional wrestler and football player, best known for his appearances with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and World Championship Wrestling (WCW).
Its follow-up album, Piledriver - The Wrestling Album 2, also included a duet by Hillbilly Jim and a female singer credited as Gertrude, entitled "Waking Up Alone". He appeared in WWE Legends' House, which aired on the WWE Network in 2014. [22] On October 10, 2016, Morris released his book, Hillbilly Jim: The Incredible Story of a Wrestling ...
The journey to WrestleMania is officially underway, and two spots have been secured.. The 2025 Royal Rumble officially kicked off the start of WWE's biggest time of the year, as the iconic first ...
On March 16, 1994, during WCW's "Battle Stars 1994" tour of Germany, Cactus and Big Van Vader had one of the most infamous matches in wrestling history as part of WCW's European Cup tournament. Cactus began a hangman, but neither wrestler was aware that the ring ropes had been drawn extra tight before the event, and Cactus could barely move ...
Disqualifications occur when an opponent uses an illegal grab or move, such as the piledriver, which is an illegal move in wrestling and grounds for immediate disqualification, although some variants are legal in certain promotions; or when he hits his opponent in the groin (foul); when he uses outside interference; when he attacks the referee ...