10 Last WWE Stars To Take Banned Wrestling Moves
Nia didn't know what she was doing here, Kairi'd on regardless.
The objective of wrestling is to bray your opponent with a variety of holds and manoeuvres until you can either keep them down for a count of three, make them give up, or otherwise knock them out completely. It is, both within its fictitious context and reality, a violent spectacle. Bodies are on the line, and people get hurt.
That's why, when a move in a wrestler's arsenal is deemed so legitimately dangerous that it is banned from use, the restriction is never mentioned on screen. Afterall, it hardly makes sense in storyline that a piledriver is too viscous for a wrestling match, but a kick to the head isn't (except when, in Randy Orton's case, it suddenly is).
Such bans are only implied by a move's sudden absence, and of course, received knowledge possessed by just about all the tuned-in fanbase. This all means that, when permitted, they carry enormous shock value should they be busted out, apparently against the company edict.
It's something of a privilege to be allowed to use these moves, but it's also an honour to be entrusted to take one. Except in our first example, which resulted in its prohibition...
10. Kairi Sane - Buckle Bomb
The latest move to enter WWE's Book of the Banned is also perhaps the most long overdue. Even in the hands of competent, capable wrestlers, the Buckle Bomb is a pretty dangerous move; one slight miscalculation risks significant injury. Entrusted to human wrecking ball Nia Jax, it's almost criminally irresponsible.
Five years ago, Seth Rollins - a man with a sketchy safety record, but still several billion times more adept than Jax - ended Sting's career with the same move. It boggles the mind why Nia thought it'd be a good addition to her arsenal, given she can hardly throw a worked punch without busting somebody's face open.
Poor Kairi Sane's neck was the final one put on the line last month, as Jax awkwardly launched her into the corner. The move was banned just days after the incident, which - as is common with Nia's botches - drew the ire of wrestling fans across the internet.