10 Wrestling Finishers That Could Legit Kill You
3. Curb Stomp
If you've seen American History X, you'll know just how devastating the Curb Stomp can be. Now, Seth Rollins isn't performing the move à la Derek Vinyard, but it is still pretty devastating. Foot to the back of the head, head face-first to the floor. If wrestling was real, this would be putting a lot of people in the hospital.
History is full of terrible examples of people using the curb stomp in real life, and the end results are grim. It is all broken jaws, missing teeth, dead bodies and murder charges. Rollins stopped using the move for a period of time, going on record as saying that the move was too perceptually violent and the thought of kids trying to move on each other was simply too much.
It isn't difficult to understand the rationale behind the decision. Fans were miffed at the move's disappearance but the potential dangers of people trying the Curb Stomp at home were just too obvious.
The move has since returned, albeit without the 'Curb' prefix. Still, a stomp is a stomp, and this is the sort of thuggish move that ends lives more often than not.