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Professional Wrestling's Most Painful Looking Moves

Yes, punches are pulled, high spots are preplanned and reactions are overacted, but that doesn't mean wrestling moves don't hurt. Cringe along with some of professional wrestling's most ouch-inducing moves, whether they're inherently painful, dangerous when botched, or just plain nasty-looking.

Aubrey By Aubrey Sitterson December 6, 2010
  
brother ray and brother devon hit the 3d
Brother Ray adds a cutter to Brother Devon's flapjack Credit: TNA

Back Body Drop/Flapjack

One of the things that makes a powerbomb so nasty is the period in which the recipient is falling freely through the air. So, how do you make it even more painful? Increase the distance that a person has to fall, of course.

In a back body drop, a charging wrestler is flipped up into the air, their momentum sending them skyward, where they flip around to eventually land on their back. A flapjack is similar, but the receiving wrestler doesn't flip around and lands on their chest and face. Don't think it sounds dangerous? The Great Khali inadvertently caused the death of another wrestler when delivering a flapjack in All Pro Wrestling in 2001.

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