One of the most common wrestling moves - and oftentimes the bread and butter of shoot- or amateur-style wrestlers - is the suplex. A suplex is a move where one wrestler throws another onto his back, and there are many, many variations. A standard or "vertical suplex" is the most common, but there are literally dozens of kinds, with past and present WWE superstars like Bret Hart, Kurt Angle, and Daniel Bryan dishing out some deep cuts in big matches. How many can you name? The more you watch, the more you hear, and the more you hear, the more you absorb. While Brock Lesnar's "Suplex City" tours have been giving an old move new life, they primarily consist of German and belly-to-belly suplexes - fans who have been watching for decades can throw in Exploder, Dragon, and even Tiger suplexes, among others. Also, a tip - adding "inverted" or "reverse" to a move's name sometimes creates a whole new move.
Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried.
*Best Crowd of the Year, 2013
