#1 Piledriver
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We’ve see a couple of piledriver variations in this article, but sometimes you simply can’t beat the classics. The piledriver has been banned in WWE for a number of years now, with only the Tombstone variation being seen from time to time, and only then by legitimate legends such as The Undertaker and Kane.
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, professional wrestlers are just that, professional, and while the major injuries suffered by performers have been grizzly, to say the least, they are also a lot rarer than people realise.
Wrestlers have been paying the price for isolated incidents for years. Always being told what is and isn’t safe, by men and women who aren’t trained in the art-form. When CM Punk busted out the piledriver against John Cena on RAW at the beginning of 2013 the crowd responded with the requisite approval, but there was also a sense of, ‘why is that banned again?’
The move is dangerous, but in theory, every single move in pro wrestling is, Japanese legend, Mitsuharu Misawa, died after taking a belly-to-back suplex, Darren Drozdov was paralysed after a powerbomb and Luther Lindsay died after hitting a Big Splash of his own. The piledriver, when performed correctly, is a staple of professional wrestling and much-missed in WWE.
We’d love to see it removed from the blacklist.
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