10 Wrestling Moves WWE Banned

By Alexander Podgorski /

9. The Kinniku Buster

Straight out of Japan, the Kinniku Buster is what you get when you take an already impressive move, in this case, Samoa Joe€™s Muscle Buster, and make it even more insane. In this case, instead of having the recipient fall onto the mat, with the damage being done to the neck and shoulders, the user either sits down or kneels, driving their victim€™s neck into their shoulder. The extreme risk in this move is twofold. First, the recipient suffer serious neck damage from their neck being compressed into the user€™s shoulder; and second, if done into a sitting position, the user risks serious damage to their tailbone, due to the combined weight of the user and recipient coming down on the user€™s lower back. There is also a risk in the user hurting their knees for the kneeling variation, but that doesn€™t compare to the risk for the sitting version. The Elevated Cradle Neckbreaker (as it€™s officially called) has never been used in a WWE ring. Yet it has somehow been seen in several generations of WWE video games, going as far back to at least SmackDown: Here Comes the Pain, and as recently as WWE€™13 (I€™m not sure if it€™s in WWE 2K14).Apart from Mohammed Yone, the man in the video above, the only known users of the move were Ron Killings (who called it the Consequence), and Sonjay Dutt (who called it the Indian Summer). Considering the Kinniku Buster has its origins in the Kinnikuman manga, in which the main character€™s goal actually is to injure his opponents, it makes sense that it stay there. As impressive as it is, it€™s one move that Vince is highly unlikely to approve in the WWE.