10 Wrestling Moves That Look Like They Could Legitimately Kill You
8. Curb Stomp
Stamping on someone's head is a pretty good way to accelerate their journey to the unexplored lands of the hereafter. It was also Seth Rollins' finisher in WWE until Vince McMahon nixed it on the grounds it was 'easily imitable' by children.
The fact that just about every wrestling move is copyable suggests there was another reason for the ban. In fact the curb stomp had strong connotations of real and especially race-related violence after being prominently featured in the movie American History X.
And a flying head stomp is indeed a particularly horrible thing to do to someone. The impact on the back of the skull, and the accompanying impact of the face onto the floor, means it has been used in real-world fatal assaults, often as part of a hate crime.
The idea of this happening in a wrestling ring was a bit too much for the WWE, in spite of Rollins' protestations that no one was ever legitimately hurt when he used the move.