Let's be brief about this. Kids, shoving your hand into another person's mouth during a skirmish is a wonderful way to discover the fascinating world of seven-fingered piano playing. In theory, the Mandible Claw is a paralysing nerve hold that applies pressure to a spot under the tongue. Most wrestlers would have exposed it for what it frankly was, a borderline lame finisher. But introduced by a psychotic Mankind, it worked from a "wait until they get a load of me" sort of angle. Later, it was kept fresh (so to speak) by the use of Mr. Socko, and then it was part of history. But here in reality, the first obstacle this hold faces is the first one we forgave initially.. That obstacle is the risk, nay, the certainty of losing fingers. Even if you had particularly foul-tasting hands, even if you used your boniest fingers on the most tender nerve bundle in there what's going to keep someone from chomping down? In fact the nervous system's most common response to severe pain is an equally severe clenching of the jaws. Dammit, Andy Dufresne suffered through hell to teach us this!
CKUT radio host, underground lyricist, Michael Myers scholar and all-around world-class opiner. Signature move: Irony Bomb. Blood type: chai. Never seen in the same place and time as Logic Johnson, former featured columnist for Bleacher Report.
Hopelessly unfamiliar with Yellow Submarine.
