10 Insane Wrestling Moves Created By Women

3. The Tiger Driver '91

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e5kpZ9xPhPY

Also known as: Kneeling Double Underhook Ganso Bomb

Created by: Jaguar Yokota

The Tiger Driver '91 is what happens when your opponent won't go down with a regular Tiger Driver. Instead of falling into a Sitout Powerbomb position, in a relatively safe position, the poor victim has their shoulders held together by the user's arms, and so they're driven head and upper shoulders-first into the canvas. 

It's an incredibly dangerous maneuver that it's most prolific user, Mitsuharu Misawa, used on extremely rare occasions, and only one person has ever kicked out of it when he used it. But Misawa didn't create the move, despite him being the focus of the video above; it was invented by Jaguar Yokota.

Yokota's best years were during the 1980s, when women's wrestling in Japan was in the midst of an explosion in popularity the likes of which it had never witnessed. Yokota was the prime exmple of a 'perfect athlete' in the sense that she could pull of ridiculous power moves as well as top rope moonsaults without any difficulty. 

Of course, when her opponents wouldn't stay down after experiencing her 'regular' offense, she'd bring out this incredibly risky move that made the crowd erupt in cheers.

So even though the legendary Misawa made the move popular during his legendary 1990s main event run, Jaguar Yokota was dropping other women on their heads a decade earlier.

 
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