100 Best Wrestling Moves EVER
95. Katsuyori Shibata | Corner Dropkick
The best wrestling moves look spectacular and look like they’d absolutely kill to take. Katsuyori Shibata’s corner dropkick, on that strict but fair basis, was the perfect wrestling move.
Shibata - and this is when he was equipped with that generational ass-kicker aura - would pummel his opponents with forearms, and then leave them draped against the bottom turnbuckle.
He’d then sprint across the ring, leap up, suspend himself in the air, and blast them in the face. He made no foley effect with his thigh because he had nothing to hide. He kicked these poor bastards at full pelt.
He couldn’t have, obviously, They’d have all suffered concussions and blackened eyes. Shibata simply located the safest possible place, the flesh of the cheek, and stamped the damn thing like it had just caught fire.
How did his opponents still have teeth?
In a superb flourish of body language, after cracking these blokes, Shibata would dust off his thigh, conveying the idea that such violence was casual to him.