100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
99. Ricky Steamboat | Arm Drag
The arm drag is a move that makes so much so sense that it almost disgraces modern wrestling for abandoning it.
The arm drag allowed Ricky to reach deep, use his rippling torso to put some oomph behind it, and send his opponent flying across the breadth of the ring. Unlike so many other throws, Ricky didn’t need to fall on his back to execute it. He saved himself the bump with a light-switch twist onto his torso, and unlike a more risky aerial move, he could hit it from a distance with minimal potential for risk. He didn’t need to get too close to the nefarious, eye-gouging heels he faced throughout his career as a babyface.
Executed with a wicked snap, and clever enough within the fiction to use the momentum of his opponents against them, Steamboat made his opponents bump and used torque to damage their arm in one gorgeous, balletic movement.
Steamboat was so incredible that he can make a fan lenient towards the convoluted action of the day turn into a right grump.
Why can’t it be this simple anymore?