Facebuster
A facebuster, also known as a faceplant, is generally a takedown move in professional wrestling in which an attacking wrestler forces their opponent down to the mat face-first without involving a headlock or facelock.
Former WWE wrestler Tyler Reks used the move as the Burning Hammer (not to be confused with the variation popularized by Kenta Kobashi) on rare occasions.
Styles performs the maneuver with a variation, as seen in the photos to the right: he does not hook the opponent's arms before performing the slam but takes two steps and moves his legs in front of the opponent's arms, enabling him to use his legs to cover the shoulders for a pin.
This variant is later utilized by former WWE wrestler Michelle McCool, who referred to the move as the Faith Breaker.
Cesaro uses a variation called the Neutralizer where he grapevines the opponent's leg with his arm similar to a cradle piledriver.
A version of this move also exists which is a Moonsault Styles Clash and was innovated and used by the late indy pro wrestler Brandon Kaplan, better known under the names Spyral (or Spiral) and BKNY,[1] which he called the Panther Bomb[2] against Mike Sydal[3] who was his opponent at the time in an Aerial Assault Match at CZW Tangled Web 2 in 2009[4] in which one of the turnbuckle posts has a box mounted on top to allow a diving wrestler extra height for their moves.
The initial setup for this move was complicated as it required Mike, while facing the ring, to be placed on top of the box in a sitting position.
This move was extremely dangerous since Mike's arms were hooked with Brandon's legs and couldn't brace for the impact, he was knocked unconscious along with giving him a concussion as well as broken ribs, having one of wrist broken, and he had a seizure in the locker room post-match.
when he made a last second decision that he didn't want to take the move but was pressured throughout the process from Brandon who was then going into business for himself.
The opponent is lifted in sidewinder suplex position before being swung around and driven face first into the mat by the attacker.
In another variation the wrestler could just jump from the turnbuckle grabbing the opponent's head/hair in the air and planting them to the mat.
Innovated by Tommy Rogers as the Tomikaze, it was popularized by Christian, who used this move as a finisher in WWE/TNA; it is perhaps better known as the Killswitch, but he has previously called it the Impaler (1998–1999) and the Unprettier (1999–2009).
The wrestler then falls forward to a kneeling position, planting the opponent's body into the mat face-first.
This maneuver was popularized by Christopher Daniels, who uses a spinning sit-out version of the move and calls it the Angel's Wings and El Desperado as Pinche Locó.
The wrestler approaches the opponent from behind, and lifts them onto their shoulders into a seated position, the electric chair.
The wrestler then lifts the opponent up by their thighs and pushes them forward and down, slamming them down to the mat chest first.
Also commonly referred to as an Alley Oop, this variation sees the wrestler lift up their opponent in a powerbomb position, only to toss them off their shoulders backward, causing them to land face-first.
Popularized by Brock Lesnar as the F-5, the move is also currently used by Rosemary as the Red Wedding, by Zaria as the F-6, and by Wardlow as the F-10.
The forward Russian legsweep was popularized by Jeff Jarrett, who began using the maneuver as a finisher in the late 1990s and calls it The Stroke.
A slight variation of the forward Russian legsweep, the wrestler approaches the opponent from behind and places them in a full nelson before hooking their leg.
The most notable practitioner of this variant is The Miz, who calls the move the Skull Crushing Finale and has used it as a finisher since August 2009.
Also known as an inverted Alabama Slam, this move usually starts with the opponent sitting on an elevated position such as the top turnbuckle, with the attacking wrestler, standing in front of them and facing the same direction, positioning the opponent's legs over their shoulders.
Then the attacking wrestler detaches from the turnbuckle, so that the opponent is held upside down in a back-to-back position.
From this position the attacking wrestler bends over, flipping the opponent over their head and slamming them down to the mat face-first.
This version of a facebuster sees the wrestler place an opponent in an inverted facelock while holding the facelock, twisting them into the facebuster and landing with their legs spread apart, driving the opponent's face into the mat.
The wrestler lifts their opponent into a Gutwrench Canadian Backbreaker Rack and transitions it into a Swinging Side-slam Face-buster.
The attacking wrestler grabs hold of an opponent's neck with both hands, one on the front, and one on the back.
A variation to the wheelbarrow facebuster which sees the attacking wrestler stand at the side of an opponent and begin to lift them as for a belly-to-back suplex.
