100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
35. Kurt Angle | Running Belly-To-Belly Suplex
The complaint, among some, is that Kurt Angle lacked crowd psychology and was inelegant with his pacing. There’s some truth to this, but also, if anybody can believably get away with blitzing through their sh*t with minimal dramatic pauses, that person is an Olympic gold-tier athlete with a death wish.
But consider this, and picture yourself in the position.
You’re wrestling Kurt Angle, a lunatic with unprecedented stamina who also happens to be a genius at the actual fundamentals of wrestling. He is absurdly over-powered. There is nobody more driven, and, making matters all the more unfair, Angle’s ability to withstand pain is also supernatural. You finally, finally, get this guy down on the mat long enough to launch a risky, aerial attack, and guess what?
He can recover and sprint-climb up each turnbuckle and smash you to the mat with a perfectly executed belly-to-belly suplex before you can even leave your feet.
Angle was very, very good at escalating the drama, using his freakish athletic prowess to tell a story.