Saturday, 23 August 2014

10 Craziest High-Flying Moves In Wrestling 10

by Unknown  |  at  10:56

10. The Topé Suicida


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The suicide dive used to be a rarity in professional wrestling circles but, like the German suplex and the superplex before it, WWE has taken to overbooking the move in the last year or so.
No longer the province of the high-flyer: now anyone on the card is allowed to fling themselves over or through the ropes to the outside. CM Punk had his own endearingly clumsy variation, which Daniel Bryan regularly bettered. The Usos deliver handsfree over-the-top elegance which we can’t help but smile to see.
Now, Luke Harper crashes through the ropes like a man half his size, making us hope that he’s got a career ahead of him in WWE aside from acting as Bray Wyatt’s henchman. But it’s the WWE’s most legendary big man that we want to celebrate with this entry.
The Undertaker is a legit six foot ten and, even trim, weighs just under 300 pounds. He shouldn’t even be able to perform a handsfree over-the-top suicide dive, never mind having kept it in his moveset until the last couple of years of his career.
It’s not always been the most elegantly performed of moves (the ‘cameraman’ and his botched catch from Wrestlemania XXV notwithstanding), but that’s the point: he’s not Ricochet, or Jack Evans. Always the smartest of veterans, Mark Calaway held the suicide dive in reserve for the most important matches, knowing the value of a jaw-dropping high spot even in a dramatic traditional professional wrestling match.

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