Why did the Curb Stomp come back? 

Back when I started watching pro-wrestling, moves were just moves.

Then slowly, I started learning more about the real dangers and politics behind moves.

I grew up during the WWE's campaign of 'Don't Try This At Home' (which none of us did after that) and that was in response to potential lawsuits from the parents of all the kids doing the moves of their favourite wrestlers and others on each other. Either as part of their backyard wrestling or on their siblings in the living room.

I remember seeing a report of a boy about my age at the time, perform a 'Rock Bottom' on his little sister and break her neck, killing her.

These videos of kids doing pro-wrestling moves on each other were 'viral' before viral videos were a thing, thanks to the WWE.

The WWE was huge, thanks to the Attitude Era and when reports starting coming in of kids getting injured using pro-wrestling moves and having tape on tape, tabloid news shows like 'Hard Copy' and normal news shows jumped at the chance at blaming the WWE for creating this crisis.

So, the WWE dealing with lawsuits and to prevent potential lawsuits, started promoting 'Do Not Try This At Home' message before Monday Night Raw and doing PSAs, because if they didn't, every single one of America's Kids would be 'People Elbowing' each other to an early grave (and of course dragging the casket away behind a car).

The WWE already started banning moves that resulted in too many injuries and especially career or life-threatening injuries. Moves like the piledriver which was first a finisher, then as common as a bulldog, was banned after injuries to the neck of 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin and others.

Eventually, the WWE had other reasons to ban moves: lawsuits.

The preemptive planning to prevent lawsuits from kids getting hurt mimicking "WWE moves", carried over to the PG era. Not many moves fell into this category. Most WWE moves would be dangerous (especially high flying moves), but one of the major moves they banned was 'the Curb Stomp' performed by Seth Rollins.

The move was Seth Rollins finishing the move, where the opponent is bent over and Seth jumps and stomps on the back of his head.

From multiple reports, the move was banned because WWE officials (code for Vince McMahon) thought kids everywhere would imitate the move and hurt each other.

Not sure why the Curb Stomp was singled out. Maybe Seth Rollins was super over and everyone was tossing their John Cena hats for a streak of blonde hair or if the move just was so simple looking that even fetus would be Curb Stomping out of the womb.

Recently, in a match against Finn Balor, Seth Rollins used the finishing move to win the match.

Like everyone else.

Immediately the first thing I asked was, "Are they burying Finn again?".

Second I asked, "The Curb Stomp is back? Why now?"

Below is my theory of why it came back:

"If kids are eating Tide pods and nobody is getting sued guess we can use the Curb Stomp again. Good point, Seth." - Vince McMahon

That or Kenny Omega is debuting soon and 'The Knee' is his.

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