10 Wrestling Moves That Look Like They Could Legitimately Kill You
5. Steiner Screwdriver
Think a piledriver is bad? Imagine one performed from a vertical suplex position, then dropping the opponent down and piledriving him in one smooth, horrendous, fatal-looking action. This is the Steiner Screwdriver, as performed by noted wrestling nutburger Scott Steiner.
The 'true' Steiner Screwdriver, with the vertical suplex hold, was used early in the Steiner Brothers' career and was often employed against local jobbers who had no idea what was about to happen to them.
Only a man like Scott Steiner, revealed by history to be more than a little unhinged, would contemplate using the Steiner Screwdriver. The key to making a piledriver safe is control, and the Screwdriver seemingly hands that control over to the Fates by dropping the opponent most of the way and grabbing him at the last split-second before he is impaled into the canvas skull-first.
In retrospect, given how blatantly insane the Screwdriver was, the world should have been prepared for the whirlwind of lunacy Scott Steiner would one day become.