Dropkick

Savoldi, a former All-American running back for Knute Rockne at Notre Dame, used his association with football to identify the move as the "drop-kick"[2] and the press also called it a "flying dropkick".

[3] The dropkick in its current form was thought to perhaps[4] originated by "Jumping Joe" Savoldi, although wrestler Abe Coleman, known as "Hebrew Hercules" and "Jewish Cougars", can also be seen in early video using a feet-first dive at an opponent's waist.

The most common variation of this is a rope-aided version, where the wrestler uses the ring ropes to elevate his body, connecting with a dropkick to the opponent's chest upon landing.

Many wrestlers perform this move with great care, as any slight twist in their body can injure them.

This enables the wrestler to fall backwards to the mat, landing on their upper back and shoulder area.

This was popularized in Japan by Takahiro Suwa and Yasushi Kanda before Finn Bálor made it famous in America.

Often a wrestler performing this maneuver will place a chair or other foreign object in front of the opponent's head, wedging the chair between the middle and bottom ropes such that it is relatively steady, and causing it to be driven into the opponent's face or head upon impact.

In this variation, the wrestler executes a traditional dropkick, but twists his/her body while performing it in a standing position.