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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]
Upon his repackaging as Kane in 1997, Jacobs proceeded to utilize the chokeslam and the tombstone piledriver as finishers, taking after his older half-brother in storyline, The Undertaker. In 2001, Jacobs adopted a falling powerbomb as a finisher, reminiscent of The Undertaker's " Last Ride ".
At the end of a 24-minute match, after kicking out of a Tombstone Piledriver, Michaels slapped The Undertaker, leading to The Undertaker executing a jumping Tombstone Piledriver on Michaels. [73] As a result of the loss per the pre-match stipulations, [74] Michaels retired from professional wrestling, [75] [76] a moment described as "the end of ...
Kane then made he made his entrance and when he got to the ring, Kane hit Rose with a tombstone piledriver in one of the most iconic wrestling moments involving a celebrity.
Undertaker then performed the Tombstone Piledriver for a near-fall. Triple H then hit Undertaker with a chair to the head and delivered a DDT on the chair. After more back and forth action, Triple H executed a second Pedigree for another near-fall. Triple H immediately delivered the third Pedigree for a near-fall.
In the wrestling world, the move is known as a “tombstone piledriver.” That wrestler, Glenn Jacobs, eventually made a foray into politics, too, and is now the mayor of Knox County in Tennessee.
In Your House was a series of monthly professional wrestling pay-per-view (PPV) events first produced by the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, now WWE) in May 1995. They aired when the promotion was not holding one of its then-five major PPVs (WrestleMania, King of the Ring, SummerSlam, Survivor Series, and Royal Rumble), and were sold at a lower cost.
The Undertaker attempted a Tombstone Piledriver on The Rock but Flair hit The Undertaker with the pipe and The Rock pinned The Undertaker after a Rock Bottom to win the match. Next, Triple H and Kurt Angle wrestled to determine the #1 contender to the Undisputed WWF Championship at WrestleMania X8 with Stephanie McMahon as special guest referee .