10 Wrestling Finishers That Could Legit Kill You
4. Piledriver
You aren't supposed to drop people on their heads. It just isn't supposed to happen. A head injury in most sports is treated with absolute seriousness, with players being removed from matches and given mandatory amounts of time off. The skull, you see, exists to protect the brain, the most important and most fragile of all the human organs.
It is no surprise then that most forms of the piledriver are banned in WWE. While usually performed by absolute professionals with minimum danger, it doesn't look like that, does it? It looks like people are being dropped directly on their heads. People shouldn't be dropped on their heads. What's more, the neck just isn't supposed to be compressed. In no circumstances, not ever, never.
The potential dangers of the move are clear from history. You only need to go back to that infamous battle between Owen Hart and Stone Cold Steve Austin, a match between two genuine professionals that left Austin with a broken neck after a botched piledriver. Austin was able to return and change the world but this doesn't mean the dangers of the piledriver should be dismissed.