A-Z of Wrestling Moves

Workforce Fitness Performance Center Moves

“You call it wrestling, they term is ‘Working’ … As Shakespeare once said: ‘A rose by any other name,’ etc.” So Marcus Griffin began his groundbreaking 1937 book on the Ins & Outs of the Pro Wrestling Business, Fall Guys: The Barnums of Bounce. It’s a good place to start, because any discussion of the grunt-and-groaners (as Griffin would call them) inevitably involves an examination of the artifice that undergirds the endeavor, and that artifice — be it the Antediluvian Secret that the whole show is a put-on, or the modern-day pretense that both Actors & Audience interact as if it’s Legitimate — is itself bolstered by an intricate, seemingly Inane Vocabulary of Lingo, Idiom & Jargon.

HERE IS THE A-Z OF WRESTLING MOVES

A

  1. Accolade
  2. Al Qaeda (The Beast From The Middle East)
  3. Ali Oop! (The Beast From The Middle East)
  4. Anaconda Vise
  5. Ankle Lock
  6. Angle Slam
  7. Atomic Leg Drop
  8. Attitude Adjustment

B

  1. Backstabber
  2. Bank Statement
  3. Batista Bomb
  4. Big Ending
  5. Black Widow
  6. Bo-Dog
  7. Bonsai Drop
  8. Brogue Kick
  9. Bull Hammer

C

  1. Camel Clutch
  2. Calf Crusher
  3. Calgary Crab
  4. Choke Slam
  5. Clothesline from Hell/Wall Street
  6. The Code Blue
  7. Cobra
  8. Codebreaker
  9. Crippler Cross Face
  10. Cross Rhodes/The Queen’s Crossbow
  11. Cross Face Chicken Wing
  12. Curb Stomp

D

  1. DDT
  2. Dirty Deeds
  3. Diamond Cutter

E

  1. Edgecator

F

  1. F-5
  2. Figure Four Leg Lock
  3. Final Cut
  4. Frog Splash

G

  1. Glam Slam
  2. Gory Bomb
  3. GTS (Go To Sleep)
  4. Gut wrench Power bomb

H

  1. Hell’s Gate

J

  1. Jackknife Power bomb

K

  1. Kill Switch
  2. K.O. Punch

L

  1. Lion Sault
  2. Last Ride

M

  1. Mandible Claw
  2. Meat Hook Clothesline
  3. Million Dollar Dream

N

  1. Natural Selection
  2. Neutralizer

P

  1. Paige-Turner
  2. Pedigree
  3. People’s Elbow
  4. Pop-Up Power Bomb
  5. Perfectplex
  6. Punt 

R

  1. Ram-Paige
  2. Razor’s Edge
  3. Red Arrow
  4. Reverse Choke Slam Face buster
  5. RKO
  6. Rock Bottom
  7. Rough Ryder
  8. Running Knee

S

  1. Scissors Kick
  2. Sharpshooter
  3. Shattered Dreams
  4. Shell-Shocked
  5. Sister Abigail
  6. Skull-Crushing Finale
  7. Skywalker
  8. SOS
  9. Spear
  10. STF
  11. Stone Cold Stunner
  12. Styles Clash
  13. Super kick
  14. Superman Punch
  15. Swanton Bomb
  16. Sweet Chin Music
  17. Sand Storm Stomp (The Beast From The Middle East)
  18. Scud Missile Spear (The Beast From The Middle East)

T

  1. T-Bone Suplex
  2. Tombstone Pile Driver
  3. Top Rope Elbow Drop
  4. Trouble in Paradise
  5. Twist of Fate

U

  1. Ultimate Splash

V

  1. Van Daminator
  2. Van Terminator

W

  1. Walls of Jericho
  2. White Noise

Y

  1. Yes Lock

Z

  1. Zig Zag