The Tombstone Piledriver - Who Did It Best?

4. Hiroyoshi Tenzan

Tenzan is to NJPW what Kane is to WWE: a loyalist who went through incredible ups and downs

Hiroyoshi Tenzan is one of NJPW’s most loyal wrestlers. He debuted with the company in 1991, and has been with them since then with almost no interruption. Although he has used many different finishers, his biggest and most dangerous was the TTD, the Tenzan Tombstone Driver.

Tenzan’s TTD is different from all other variations on this list because of one important factor: his opponents don’t wrap their arms around his waist. For everyone else on this list, the victim holds onto their opponent to keep themselves cinched in to avoid really falling and hitting their heads on the mat.

But with Tenzan, he held them up with his own strength, and most of them only used one arm to support themselves. Because of that, Tenzan’s victims had to trust him to not drop them in a bad way, effectively putting their lives in his hands like no one else.

As if that wasn’t enough. Tenzan was also known to pull an Owen Hart on occasion and do a sitting version, which greatly amplified the risk factor of this move.

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