The Double-Arm DDT - Who Did It Best?

#1 Kenta Kobashi

Kenta Kobashi was once nicknamed 'the Maximum Innovator' for creating so many moves used around the world today

There are a handful of cases when a wrestler does a move better than the person that created it. This is not one of those cases. Kenta Kobashi hit a better Double-Arm DDT than anyone else, which makes perfect sense as he’s the one to have invented the move.

When Kobashi hit this move, he’d actually jump backwards instead of just falling backwards. While jumping, he’d also lift his opponent and then drop them downwards. Both of these movements done together made his version look incredibly painful, which was the intended goal of such a move.

It also helped that All Japan Pro-Wrestling had one of the most enthusiastic play-by-play commentators of all time. Whenever a wrestler hit one of their big moves, he’d scream on the top of his lungs as if he had just seen the greatest things ever.

Watch at 3:06 in the video below as Kobashi hits his Double-Arm DDT, and the commentator screams ‘DEE-DEE-TEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!’

Even without understanding Japanese, the emotion from this commentator tells you that this is a big move. That is why commentators are so important in a wrestling match: their emotion (or lack thereof) can be the difference between a great match and just a normal one.