10 Wrestling Moves That Look Like They Could Legitimately Kill You
2. Banzai Drop
The WWE's Yokozuna was many things - World Heavyweight Champion, Royal Rumble Winner, not actually Japanese - but above all, he was big. Huge. Improbably, terrifyingly massive. And his finisher was sitting on his opponent.
For a lesser man, a second-rope Power Sit wouldn't be a big deal, but when Yokozuna did it, the Banzai Drop looked like it would squash his opponent's ribcage under 500-plus pounds of fake sumo wrestler.
Depending on how much Yoko cared about his opponent, he could crank the move up to a butt-first meteor strike that looked lethally horrific. His Banzai Drop against Virgil was famously brutal, but his career also saw various jobbers getting the full weight in the chest or, most wincingly, the face.
Gargantuan wrestlers in the years since have employed the Banzai Drop partly in tribute to the big man, and partly because there is no better way to employ one's immense girth in so figuratively and literally crushing one's opponent.