The Powerbomb - Who Did It Best?

7. Chris Benoit

Benoit was one of those wrestlers that could do anything and everything in the ring

In his prime, Benoit was an immensely versatile wrestler. He could hit diving moves, submission holds, and various suplexes with laser precision. Yet most people never saw him as a power-based wrestler, despite him hitting one of the most vicious Powerbombs ever seen.

This move, called the Wild Bomb, was basically a snap Powerbomb, i.e. a Powerbomb that was hit at high speed. What the move lacked in height it made up for in speed. In the example seen below, Benoit doesn’t get his victim (Eddie Guerrero, in this case) very high but drops him down very fast instead. That said, the impact from this move is so strong that you can see Eddie’s head bounce off the mat.

That isn’t even from any kind of over-selling or extra effort from Guerrero; Benoit hit this move with such heavy impact that it could’ve given Eddie whiplash. It’s a perfect example of a smaller wrestler doing a big man’s move as well as or better than said big man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1tTl2A45q7M