5 pro-wrestling moves that were created by accident

#1 The Ganso Bomb

The Ganso Bomb is one of the deadliest wrestling moves to

The story behind the Ganso Bomb, also known as the Kawada Driver, is steeped in the complex and immersive psychology of AJPW’s King’s Road wrestling style. On January 22nd, 1999, then-Triple Crown Heavyweight Champion Toshiaki Kawada defended that title against his arch-rival, Mitsuharu Misawa.

Throughout the match, both men kept reversing their way out of each other’s signature and finishing manoeuvres, with Misawa using a Frankensteiner to roll his way out of Kawada’s Folding Powerbomb.

Early in the match, however, Kawada broke his arm and was thus incapable of using his full strength when executing power moves. So when Misawa went for another Frankensteiner to avoid Kawada’s Folding Powerbomb, Kawada tried to hold Misawa up instead. But Kawada’s strength appeared to run out, and so he kneeled forward while still holding Misawa up by the legs.

In doing so, Kawada drove Misawa down to the ring head-first in freefall, without any means of rolling or absorbing the damage. Thus the Ganso Bomb was born.

At least with the other moves on this list, there is some way for the wrestler taking the move to protect their bodies. With the Ganso Bomb, no such luxury exists, leaving the victim with no other option but to suck it up and take the spine-jarring impact like a champ.

And people wonder why Japanese wrestling is treated with so much more respect than its American counterpart.