10 Wrestling Finishers That Could Legit Kill You
7. Coquina Clutch
What does a human need in order to live? Water, food, shelter, oxygen. That's about it. Of course, there are plenty of other things that are desirable, things like relationships, choice and logical booking in professional wrestling, but the top four are definitely a top four. You need sustenance, you need safety, you need to be able to breathe.
All of which makes Samoa Joe's Coquina Clutch a very dangerous move if applied in real life. The move is a choke. A rear-naked choke, to be exact, that sees the bloke in charge wrap his (usually gigantic) bicep around the windpipe of the poor victim, restricting the flow of oxygen to the brain. If your brain doesn't get any oxygen then your brain isn't going to be able to, you know, live.
This is true no matter who applies the hold, but the Samoan Submission Machine? That man is built like a truck, like a fridge. With that sort of strength, that sort of grip and that sort of pressure, there isn't a chance in heck that anyone is surviving this move.