10 Wrestling Finishing Moves That Are Genuinely HORRIBLE
9. Tiger Driver '91
Similar to the Powerbomb, the Tiger Driver has the user flip the opponent in the air before hurling them into the ground on their back. Unlike the standard move, the Driver has the opponents' arms locked behind them, minimising the chances of a counter. Because the Tiger Driver is unsafe, you can understand why wrestlers stick with a more traditional Powerbomb.
And yet, the finisher's creator, Mitshuharu Misawa, didn't think it was dangerous enough, so he upgraded it. Rather than letting his opponent land on their back, the new-and-improved Tiger Driver '91 drops them on their head and neck.
Because this move combines elements from the doubled-armed DDT, the Piledriver, and the Powerbomb, it feels it was designed to kill the opponent, not injure them. The Tiger Driver '91 is so ludicrously over-the-top, it looks like something Zangief from Street Fighter would pull off.
Over the years, Ahmed Johnson, Tyler Bate, and Toni Storm have kept Misawa's monster manoeuvre alive by devising their own take. But since the wrestling industry is not a big fan of finishers that can result in a wrestler's head exploding on impact, the Tiger Driver is used infrequently.