page_title: Brainbuster
hierarchical_section_title: Brainbuster
caption_attribution_description: Austin Aries performs a brainbuster on Mark Haskins during the Impact! taping on January 28, 2012 in Wembley, England.
context_page_description: A brainbuster is a professional wrestling throw in which a wrestler puts the opponent in a front facelock, hooks their pants or thigh, and lifts them up as if they were executing a vertical suplex. The wrestler then falls onto their back so that the opponent lands on their head while remaining vertical. This move is a version of the DDT. It was innovated by Killer Karl Kox. In Japanese puroresu, the term "brainbuster" refers to a regular vertical suplex, while the move elsewhere known as a brainbuster is referred to as a "vertical drop brainbuster". The brainbuster is banned in WWE because the person receiving the move will land on the top of their head or neck without protection.
  The botched executions of the belly-to-belly piledriver by Owen Hart and The Undertaker led to changes in the wrestling style of two comparable wrestlers, specifically Stone Cold Steve Austin and Goldberg, respectively, with the former changing from a technician to a brawler and the latter instead of using his Jackhammer finisher, botched the move into an unplanned brainbuster at the Super ShowDown of 2019 in Saudi Arabia.
context_section_description: A brainbuster is a professional wrestling throw in which a wrestler puts the opponent in a front facelock, hooks their pants or thigh, and lifts them up as if they were executing a vertical suplex. The wrestler then falls onto their back so that the opponent lands on their head while remaining vertical. This move is a version of the DDT. It was innovated by Killer Karl Kox. In Japanese puroresu, the term "brainbuster" refers to a regular vertical suplex, while the move elsewhere known as a brainbuster is referred to as a "vertical drop brainbuster". The brainbuster is banned in WWE because the person receiving the move will land on the top of their head or neck without protection.
  The botched executions of the belly-to-belly piledriver by Owen Hart and The Undertaker led to changes in the wrestling style of two comparable wrestlers, specifically Stone Cold Steve Austin and Goldberg, respectively, with the former changing from a technician to a brawler and the latter instead of using his Jackhammer finisher, botched the move into an unplanned brainbuster at the Super ShowDown of 2019 in Saudi Arabia.
caption: Austin Aries performing a brainbuster to Mark Haskins.
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