10 Wrestling Moves WWE Banned For Being Too Dangerous

1. Burning Hammer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9AfaATYmbpQ With this list being dominated by Japanese wrestling, it's no wonder that our number one is a move so dangerous, its creator Kenta Kobashi only ever performed it seven times, on four very specific wrestlers that he trusted to the greatest extent to take the move perfectly and without serious injury. To give the move its technical name, the inverted death valley driver takes an already incredibly risky move and removes any form of safety it offers the person it is performed on. In a similar manner to the poisoned frankensteiner, the danger comes from the ready position: instead of being able to roll forward and counter act the force of being driven into the mat, you are now rather prone and helpless as you are thrown backwards head and/or neck first. In Japan, Kobashi is a bone fide legend in wrestling and this move, like a few of the others near the top of this list, has now entered wrestling legend as a sort of black swan: its rare as all hell and only performed on the greatest of occasions. With a risk factor like that, we'll never see it at Wrestlemania, but that's fine. We can leave it to the Japanese to make us wince time and time again.