10 Wrestling Moves WWE Banned For Being Too Dangerous

7. Victory Star Drop

tumblrtumblrWomen's wrestling in Japan is not the quite the same as women's wrestling you'd see anywhere else. Often incredibly brutal, the lady grapplers from the Far East are every bit as crazy as their male counterparts and none more so than the legendary Manami Toyota. A fierce female from the Japanese wrestling circuit since the late 1980's, Toyota invented the Victory Star Drop, which to use the technical name is a top rope bodyscissors backflip innto a back-to-back kneeling piledriver. It's as over the top ridiculous and dangerous as it sounds, so dangerous in fact that many of Toyota's opponents refused to allow her to perform it. As you could of guessed with a move that has the word 'piledriver' in its description, the danger here comes from the person taking the move landing on their head but in this case, that person also has no real method of controlling how they land. It's simply flip over and hope you land square on the top of your shoulders (where all wrestlers are trained to land 99% of the time) or else land on your head and take it like a champ.
 
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