10 Wrestling Moves That Look Like They Could Legitimately Kill You

9. Tiger Driver '91

A Tiger Driver is an intense enough move as it is, involving a wrestler hoisting up his opponent from a double underhook, flipping him over and slamming him down back-first. It's like a juiced-up powerbomb that hurts even more than a regular one. It's a pretty effective-looking finisher in its own right, and must be exceptionally painful even when done right.

Now imagine a Tiger Driver goes horribly, horribly wrong. The opponent is under-rotated and is slammed down on his head instead of his back. For reference, this is the scenario that ensued when Triple H performed a pedigree on a jobber who thought it was a powerbomb, and ended up spiking himself on his head.

This appalling, neck-hating botch is an actual move that wrestlers do deliberately under the name of the Tiger Driver '91. Mitsuhara Misawa was one such user, because this is another one of those moves that only Japanese wrestlers seem mad enough to try.

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