10 Craziest High-Flying Moves In Wrestling 1

1. The Corkscrew Shooting Star Press

The shooting star press is another one of those moves that was long banned by WWE due to a perceived danger in executing it correctly: Brock Lesnar would nearly break his own neck performing it on Kurt Angle at Wrestlemania XIX, and Billy Kidman would give Chavo Guererro a concussion with a botched version of the move a year later on Smackdown.
The ‘shooting star’ aspect of the move is the backflip after the leap forward, invented by high-flying Japanese legend Jushin Liger. The press is the standard iteration, but variations can include a legdrop or an elbow drop to finish, or even a DDT or a senton.
Like the 450 splash and the piledriver, the WWE only allows wrestlers who’ve got a proven track record of safety and consistency with the shooting star press to perform it in the ring. In fairness to Kidman, he’d been safely performing the shooting star press for years before his mistake on television. Evan Bourne, the former Matt Sydal, had also proven to WWE that he had the ability to pull it off, as does current NXT high-flying king, Adrian ‘Pac’ Neville.
Naturally The Man That Gravity Forgot goes one better, performing a corkscrew shooting star press as one of his finishing movies. He calls it the Red Arrow. We call it totally freakin’ awesome.







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