10 Sick Wrestling Moves

The top 10 sick wrestling moves take a lot talent and courage to execute. Professional wrestlers are well-conditioned athletes that risk serious injury whenever they step into the ring. When you see the list of top ten sick wrestling moves, you will agree that professional wrestling may seem choreographed, but the danger is very real.

1. Pile Driver. A pile driver is executed when a wrestler seems to pound another wrestler into the mat head first with all of the victim's weight coming down on his neck. This makes the list of top sick wrestling moves because, when this move is done right, it looks real. There is great caution taken to protect the wrestler receiving the pile driver, but the effect looks extremely painful.
2. Top Rope. Any move off the top rope qualifies as one of the top sick wrestling moves. But the top rope move that makes the list is leaping from the top rope, out of the ring and on the opponent's head. It can be done with an elbow or a forearm, and the end result is usually chaos.
3. Announcer's Table. The announcer's table in a professional wrestling match is sometimes used as a weapon. The sick move is when an wrestler lays his opponent out on the announcer's table, and then leaps from the ring apron on to his opponent, collapsing the announcer's table.
4. Suplex from a Ladder. A suplex is a move that requires a wrestler to lift his opponent perpendicular to the ground but upside down, and then drop him on his back. It is a vicious move by itself, but when it is done from the rung of a ladder then it become sick.
5. Clothesline. Executing safe clothesline in wrestling requires perfect timing from the guy delivering the clothesline to the recipient making sure he falls at the right moment. When that clothesline is delivered to an opponent flying off the ropes at full speed, the sound it makes and the speed at which the opponent falls to the mat makes it sick.
6. Eating a Turnbuckle. George "The Animal" Steele used to eat the turnbuckle and throw the stuffing to the audience. People thought he was just being crazy, but it turns out that it was one of the top sick wrestling moves of all time. When Steele was done with the turnbuckle, the metal clamps holding the ring together were exposed. Steele would then smash his opponent's forehead on to the exposed corner until the blood was gushing and the match was over.
7. The Blackjack Claw. When a wrestler spreads his hand over his opponent's forehead and applies pressure to the opponent's temples, this is referred to as a claw. Blackjack Mulligan has such huge and powerful hands, that when he would do the claw there would be blood coming from the opponent's forehead. It was a simple move that turned sick in the hands of the right person.
8. Leaping Over The Ropes. When you watch wrestlers that base their attack on acrobatics, you will often see one of the sicker moves in professional wrestling. With his opponent dazed outside the ring, the acrobatic wrestler runs at the rope and the uses the ropes to launch him into the air and on to his opponent. It was one of those sick wrestling moves that usually hurt both wrestlers when it was over.
9. Flying Head Butt. A head butt is when a wrestler uses his forehead to strike his opponent in the head. The results are usually painful, but when that head butt is delivered while jumping off the top rope, then it becomes a sick move.
10. Spear. The Spear is a wrestling move made famous by Goldberg and The Edge. It is simple in its execution, but the power it shows is pretty sick. When the opponent is standing dazed in the corner, the wrestler runs at full speed and lays his shoulder into the opponent's gut.