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Once a month, we'll talk about a wrestling move and the wrestlers that do them. (I forgot to start this at the beginning of the month, wanted to do that since the last one started so late into a month...) This month's move: the powerbomb. Wikipedia posted:A powerbomb is a professional wrestling throw in which an opponent is lifted (usually so that they are sitting on the wrestler's shoulders) and then slammed back-first down to the mat. The standard powerbomb sees an opponent first placed in a standing headscissors position (bent forward with their head placed between the attacking wrestler's thighs). He is then lifted on the wrestler's shoulders and slammed down back-first to the mat. A prawn hold is commonly used for a pinning powerbomb. Who do you think has the best powerbomb in the history of the business? Do you like it as a finisher? What powerbomb variation is your favorite? Who does the best version of that move? To be honest, I have never really know what a good powerbomb should look like. I very much know what a bad one looks like, but if you eliminate those I wouldn't tell you decent from good. That being said, I do love me some Sami Zayn Blue Thunder Bomb. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuvVNblNPFg
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As a kid I loved Diesel's Jackknife Powerbomb, mainly because it looked so much like he didn't give a gently caress about hurting his opponent (obviously the opposite is true, but I was a dumb kid who thought it was real in the early 90s)
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Oct 4, 2019 08:30
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I get why he had to drop it after moving out of the Cruiserweights, but I alway dug Chris Jericho's double powerbomb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNPzOYmirQI
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Oct 4, 2019 12:30
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I am a big fan of Kenta Kobashi's Orange Crush Bomb https://twitter.com/narukiroy/status/986471140783804416?s=20 For a more straight forward powerbomb though, can't beat Vader. https://twitter.com/NINaylor/status/1017370127401091073?s=20 https://twitter.com/porksweats1/status/1162894407370190850?s=20 Something very wild and dangerous about his powerbomb.
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Oct 4, 2019 17:34
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I'm partial to Nash and Sid's power bombs. Nash just straight drops them flat on their back from 10 feet and Sid holds on to add extra impact. Both look real good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3LAmw0s9AHU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ikIXrZ5xjg Video quality is mostly horrendous in this one but you get the idea.
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Oct 4, 2019 18:41
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big agree with Nash's jackknife powerbomb and that's probably my personal pick. i remember even in HCTP on PS2 it looked loving brutal. i've never really seen guys lift someone up so smoothly and as fast for a powerbomb like Nash did. maybe Batista comes close. stylistically, the Orange Crush Bomb looks so loving rad. also love Scott Hall's Razor Edge, which i think counts as a powerbomb? especially against smaller guys because those guys would just get crunched up when Hall drove'em to the mat.
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Oct 4, 2019 18:58
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Two of my favorites (Tenryu and Kawada) used the powerbomb often. Tenryu's were merely passable. Kawada put more onto his and made them credible as a finish despite lacking the size and power of a Nash or Vader. But oooof, the one he uses just after the 21 minute mark of this match: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5tovnb edit: Razor's Edge is a crucifix powerbomb, definitely counts
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Oct 4, 2019 19:00
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Jerusalem posted:I get why he had to drop it after moving out of the Cruiserweights, but I alway dug Chris Jericho's double powerbomb: Controversial take: I hate most repeating powerbombs. They only ever look good to me when they're being done by the rare people like Lesnar who are legitimately strong enough to repeatedly ragdoll their opponent; in most cases there's so much assistance necessary from the person taking the move to go back up that it makes the subsequent powerbombs look way less impactful than the first. Weird as it is to cite Benoit, this has always been one of my favorite powerbombs: https://twitter.com/bumpandfeed/status/1094292871891562498
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Oct 4, 2019 19:08
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Really love blue thunder bombs
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Oct 4, 2019 19:30
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I like the Liger Bomb. Looks powerful and ends in a pin that properly covers the opponents shoulders. A perfect finisher. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kRv5AwFTIg4
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Oct 4, 2019 19:39
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SID https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx_mZ_sivsY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVd3zY1pE5Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5xTIpJbDaY&t=130s Especially when he dropped to one knee: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBU7GROEJhs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwItdIZR3I&t=176s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-h71VF3S0ks Davros1 fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Oct 4, 2019 |
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Oct 4, 2019 19:54
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The Liger Bomb is the GOAT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaHOZsBMFGk
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Oct 5, 2019 01:32
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for your consideration: The Hammer Throw Powerbomb https://twitter.com/narukiroy/status/868299440607703040?s=19
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Oct 5, 2019 01:51
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Sticky Nate posted:for your consideration: Jungle <3<3<3
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Oct 5, 2019 01:53
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here's some ugly poo poo to cleanse your palate between the good bombs in the other posts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKLLNCr32Yk&t=148s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDMC0LjVk_A&t=119s
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Oct 5, 2019 01:56
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https://youtu.be/RulRoehQVC4 The awesome bomb was always my favorite power bomb.
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Oct 5, 2019 02:24
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Kota Ibushi's Last Ride is sick as hell
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Oct 5, 2019 02:38
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5KsEmDxXmY Powerbomb someone through a table and that’s a guaranteed pop from me.
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Oct 5, 2019 02:40
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Suddenly I remembered my favourite wrestler, Hiromu Takahashi https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpcPu9YPP1Q&t=115s Sunset flip bomb to the outside is dope.
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Oct 5, 2019 02:57
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The best powerbomb Nash ever did was the one he did in that stupid Elimination Chamber specifically because JR's call of it was quintessential JR and made me laugh like a loon no matter how many times I watched it.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKzHpRyAsRA
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I’m so pumped cuz I just watched a bunch of cool powerbombs! I think I’m starting to understand. - Jericho’s double power bomb. There's nothing unenjoyable about it but I'm with the poster that made the Lesnar point. I know it's not entirely fair, but I can't help it! - Oh My God how have I never seen Kobushi’s Orange Crush Bomb before? It’s so beautiful. Someone please bring it back. Please not Dolph Ziggler. - Vader’s power bomb is SICK!!! WHAT. It’s so scary looking. - Is Nash’s even a power bomb? He lifts them up with incredible speed into a powerbomb position then just straight up drops them. Very cool looking though. - Sid’s I could do without. I prefer Nash’s. Wait I take this all back, Sid’s kneeling power bomb owns. - Lord, Kawada’s power bomb in that match is incredible. - How could I forget Mike Awesome? The Awesomebomb was so good. Sandman McMahon posted:https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5KsEmDxXmY
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Oct 5, 2019 07:04
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For me what I liked about Jericho's Double Power Bomb was that it was clearly taking a lot out of him to do it, with the idea (for me at least) that he was expending a lot of effort to do it but if he could pull it off it would finish his opponent for good. Seeing somebody like Brock Lesnar do it is of course always a blast, but it never really feels like a particular struggle for him like it did for Jericho.
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Seeing Sid do a power bomb for the first time blew my mind as a kid cause up to that point I only watched WWF and all the finishes tended to be low impact and Sid just went out and power bombed jobbers and I was like  Dragon's Lee's Suplex into a Power Bomb is super sweet as seen around 4:17 of this clip https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmjBJihwLsg
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Oct 5, 2019 07:43
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I wish I had a better gif because I really liked the Dragonbomb from Ultimo Dragon
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Oct 5, 2019 07:50
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Sticky Nate posted:for your consideration: I'm also going to second the love for Sid's powerbombs. When he came back to WWF in the mid-90s it was the raddest poo poo and made Sid look like a very, very scary man.
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Oct 5, 2019 09:50
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i am now flashing back to the sid/vader "master of the powerbomb" match that featured not a single powerbomb and getting pissed all over again
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Oct 5, 2019 10:37
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for some sick-nasty impact, I always liked Pegasus Kid/Wild Pegasus' snap powerbomb: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp8oYqmCHgI Hmm, I wonder what ever happened to that guy? Oh well. I also really like Atsushi Onita's Thunder Fire Powerbomb, but I'm having a hard time getting a good clip of it because he was REALLY not consistent with it. So here's Great Sasuke doing his own badass take on it, instead! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=552KAjCbvkg I swear I saw Sasuke do a running variant on it, once, but the video quality was atrocious and I don't think I'd be able to find it now.
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Oct 5, 2019 15:54
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Sid's powerbomb was one of those weird ones where it just random how he'd do it. Sometimes he'd just lift you up and huck you. Sometimes it would be a bog-standard powerbomb. Sometimes he'd do the kneeling powerbomb that looked like he broke a dude in twain
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I like a powerbomb that flows into a pin. My favorite is probably the Liger Bomb where he hooks the opponent's arms with his legs on the way down. The Soulful Powerbomb is a little wackier but he just lays his entire body weight on you. Anyway, here is the most disgusting powerbomb of all time: https://twitter.com/jocay19/status/820861368949678081?lang=en
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HulkaMatt posted:I like a powerbomb that flows into a pin. My favorite is probably the Liger Bomb where he hooks the opponent's arms with his legs on the way down. God drat BJ & Jimmy did some loving ludicrous poo poo together.
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Oct 5, 2019 16:21
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It's surprising to me that I can't find a video of that and have to resort to finding grimy gifs on twitter. You just tend to find the one into the crowd, which somehow, was a whole lot safer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYvNGwJDpOA
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Oct 5, 2019 16:23
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Crap I can not understand professional wrestlers sometimes. "Ok, we do the thing where it looks like you're doing a top-rope powerbomb ok?" "Sounds rote but whatever" "But instead you jump out of the ring and give me whiplash and probably a concussion by bouncing by head off this thick-rear end top rope. And maybe I collapse in a heap on the outside because the wire knocked me the gently caress out" "The money we're making for this is so worth it. I'm in"
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Oct 5, 2019 22:11
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This is the best in the thread so far. so loving sick
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Oct 5, 2019 22:25
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Low Desert Punk posted:This is the best in the thread so far. so loving sick Sicker: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxn_YIbBwFA
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Oct 5, 2019 22:45
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CarlCX posted:Weird as it is to cite Benoit, this has always been one of my favorite powerbombs: I remember watching this live. One thing I hated about WCW was the slams on their ring never sounded that great, but this sounded like a loving cannon firing and I pretty much made the exact same noise as Heenan.
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in the hart/diesel match i liked how the i think it was the second jackknife got all sideways and weird. this gif is not that
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As the month winds down / we awaken a thread that had already wound down, let us post some last words on the powerbomb before the new month begins. Here's a fun variant/combination: the powerbomb part of the tower of doom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPAmOeWdddY
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