WWE: 10 Submissions We've All Tried (That Really Hurt!)

9. Mandible Claw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZaZyGJDc24c I would bet money that a certain percentage of people reading this article are now making sceptical faces at their screens, shaking their heads and perhaps making disbelieving noises such as "pfft!" or "pshaw!". They're thinking of Mr Socko and how Mick Foley would suffocate his opponent's with a smelly gym sock that he had tucked down his sweatpants. Light comedy, maybe, but a painful submission hold?? Not likely! To those people, I say this... Right now, if you're not busy (and since you're reading wrestling articles on the internet, I'm going to assume that you're not) and no ones watching, try this. Take the second and third fingers of your right hand and place them in your mouth. You want to go underneath your tongue, towards where it joins the base of your mouth. Go ahead, I'll wait. Got it? Good. Now, with your thumb underneath your jaw, push down with your fingers on that point, as hard as you can, and try and get your fingers and your thumb to touch. Well, aren't you silly? While most people associate the Mandible Claw with Mick Foley, it was innovated by a physician and suspected murderer (I kid you not!) called Sam Sheppard. After serving 12 years in Ohio Penitentiary for allegedly beating his wife to death in 1954, he was acquitted and released following a retrial. He began a wrestling career three years later, billing himself as "Killer" Sam Sheppard (which, in terms of just being cocky, is on par with the time when O.J. Simpson wrote and released a book called "If I Did It"). It was here that he used his anatomical knowledge to develop a hold to specifically target the nerves and muscle tissue at the base of the tongue. As well as this, the upward force applied with your thumb and palm can easily dislocate a jaw with enough pressure. So to sum up, this is designed to really hurt. That, and you have someone's disgusting fingers in your mouth. Tap out quickly and gag.