10 Insane Wrestling Moves Created By Women

Also known as: Northern Lights Driver, Scoop Lift Brainbuster

Created by: Akira Hokuto

Though not seen very frequently in WWE or WCW, the Northern Lights Bomb is a staple of Japanese wrestling. A slight variation of the original Brainbuster, this move sees the user pick up their opponent in a sort of scoop lift, before dropping them either on their neck and upper shoulders, or directly on their head. 

It's a popular move in Japan, because the entire wrestling psychology in Japan favours riskier moves as 'big match' finishers that provide a greater degree of finality in long-standing rivalries. There were few people who used the move as well as its creator, Akira Hokuto.

The wife of Kensuke 'Power Warrior' Sasaki, Hokuto was as brutal and tough a women's wrestler as any. She once took a Tombstone Piledriver from the second rope, broke her neck, and continued the match regardless of injury. Throughout the 1990s, Hokuto wrestled through serious injuries and against incredibly tough opponents, yet she kept winning major contests, thanks in part to this move.

Hokuto had no problem lifting opponents (some of whom were bigger than her), and dropping them in such a way that, at the very least, created a convincing illusion of dropping them directly on their heads.

Small wonder so many Japanese wrestlers, including her husband, decided to emulate her in later years...