10 necks bumps which are too nasty to watch twice

#4 The debut of the Burning Hammer

Japanese wrestlers are known for being crazier than their North American counterparts. The matches are longer on average, the pacing is more intense, the physicality is stiffer, and the bumps are nastier. Nowhere was this truer and more frequently-seen than in All Japan Pro Wrestling.

Kenta Kobashi was one of the top stars of the promotion during the 1990s and excelled at dishing out severe punishment when necessary. He had a wide array of believable and credible finisher that could put away most opponents. But by 1998, most of his opponents had developed counters or strategies to survive his existing finishers.

So Kobashi upped the ante even further by debuting the ultimate finisher: the Burning Hammer, an inverted Death Valley Driver where the victim is dropped head-first to the canvas with little protection whatsoever.

Although this move has been used by others several times – including most recently by Brian Kendrick in a match against Kota Ibushi which only got a 2-count – Kobashi always won with this move. Nobody escapes the Burning Hammer when Kobashi does it...nobody.