page_title: Powerslam
section_title: Side Slam
hierarchical_section_title: Powerslam / Variations / Side Slam
caption_attribution_description: The Rock's wedding gift to the jilted groom, Daniel Bryan, during Raw 1000.
context_page_description: A powerslam is a professional wrestling body slam move in which the wrestler performing the slam falls face-down on top of his/her opponent. The use of the term "powerslam" usually refers to the front powerslam and the scoop powerslam.
context_section_description: This move is commonly referred to as an ura-nage slam, or simply ura-nage. This name is an incorrect Americanization of the name for ura-nage, which, translated directly from Japanese, means "throw to behind". It has erroneously been translated as "reverse side throw". To perform it, the wrestler begins standing face to face with the opponent slightly to their side. Then, the wrestler tucks their own head under the opponent's near arm, reaches across the opponent's chest and around their neck with their near arm, and places the other arm against their back. The wrestler then falls forward, either flat on their chest or into a kneeling position, and forces the opponent back-first onto the mat. In another variation, the wrestler can also stay standing and body slam the opponent onto the mat, this is typically called a standing side slam. The original version was innovated and popularized by Hiroshi Hase. The fall-forward variation was popularized by The Rock, who called it the Rock Bottom.  The kneeling variation was performed by Booker T who calls it the Book End. Matt Hardy performs a sitout version of it, called the Side Effect.
  The very same slam made by The Rock was also used by The Angelo Crewz calling it the Angelo Slam (Running Side Slam).   Becky Lynch uses this move and calls it "man handle slam".
caption: The Rock performing the Rock Bottom (side slam) on Daniel Bryan.
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