10 Hidden Meanings Behind Wrestling Moves

2. Orienteering With Napalm Death - Comedy Routine

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It might sound like a desperate Alan Partridge pitch to the commissioning editor of the BBC, but Orienteering with Napalm Death is in actual fact one of many excruciating ways in which bone-bending boy scout Zack Sabre Jr. knots his poor opponents' limbs.

Though the move - an Argentine leglock/calf slice combination when it's at home - isn't the brainchild of North Norfolk's finest, it does indirectly derive from the Big British Castle, inspired by a routine of meta-comedian Stewart Lee.

During the skit, Britain's 41st best stand-up comic describes how he used to go 'second-wave, anarcho-punk orienteering' with his schoolmates, future grindcore band Napalm Death. After claiming the New Japan cup last May, Zack Tweeted that he too, had taken fallen opponent Hiroshi Tanahashi out into the fields with a compass alongside the crust-punk extreme-metal group:

And to think Stewart Lee thinks he's too niche.

 
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