Powerbomb
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This entry encompasses the traditional powerbomb as well as its diverse modifications. A move such as one where the opponent is lifted and slammed back into the mat, is indicative of the brute strength that the wrestler’s character is supposed to embody. From Batista’s Batista Bomb to Diesel’s Jackknife to Kevin Owens’s pop up powerbomb, the powerbomb is impactful, destructive and dominant.
A powerbomb can be reversed once the opponent manages to break free of the attacker’s hold. Using the momentum to a variety of ends, it can be countered into a blockbuster, a flip, a hurricanrana or even a canadian destroyer.
Yet in the WWE, the powerbomb attains the status of a fatal finisher where the physical might of the attacker is emphasized more than the skillfulness of the opponent’s reversal. Barring a few spots where the storyline necessitates a powerbomb reversal, there is not much to draw from in this case.
Of course, the selling on the part of the opponent remains indispensable to the portraiture of the attacker as physically indomitable.
