Suplex

From there the wrestler falls backwards, throwing the opponent over their head, forcing them to land on their upper back and neck.

Tully Blanchard used this maneuver as his finishing hold during his runs in Jim Crockett Promotions and the WWF.

The facelock is loosened so the opponent can be twisted slightly, then the attacker falls to a sitting position and the victim's back and shoulders are driven into the mat.

This variation was innovated by Hayabusa, and used by Damian Priest and Seth Rollins among others, with the former calling the move the Broken Arrow.

In another variation, the wrestler releases the hold just prior to the sitout position, letting the opponent's own momentum force them down head-first.

This move is a staple of larger and powerful wrestlers as it gives an aura of dominance over their opponents who can do nothing but wait to drop in the suplex.

The move was first popularized in WCW by Kevin Nash, who began to use it instead of a standard suplex to avoid aggravating a back injury.

Many other WWE superstars used this move to pay tribute to him, such as his nephew Chavo Guerrero, Rey Mysterio and Seth Rollins.

This variation is similar to a classic suplex, including the attacking wrestlers beginning with a standard front facelock, and then when they starts lifting the opponent, they make a few running steps forward while continuing the suplex rotation, slamming the opponent back-first onto the mat.

This can be performed with or without a pinning combination in which the wrestler bridges their back and legs to hold the opponent's shoulders against the mat.

In 2018, the Colombian referee Wilmar Roldan announced a campaign to introduce this variant of the suplex to international soccer.

[4] Since the wrestler taking the move is falling backwards, the potential for injury is significant if it is not performed properly.

Japanese wrestler Mitsuharu Misawa suffered a spinal injury which triggered a fatal cardiac arrest during his last match in 2009 after Akitoshi Saito gave him the belly-to-back suplex.

Former indie wrestler Human Tornado uses a flipping version called the DND - Dat Ninja Dead.

This move best is used by both Drew Gulak calling it the Southern Lights Suplex (sometimes while holding the opponent into a bridge to attempt to score a pinfall) and Joker as the JokerPlex respectively.

This move involves the attacking wrestler approaching an opponent from behind, reaching down and grasping their crotch with both forearms, with hands together and facing upwards into their groin, and lifting him overhead into a belly-to-back release suplex.

Invented by Tatsumi Fujinami, this belly-to-back suplex variation sees the wrestler apply a full nelson and then bridge their back, lifting the opponent over him and onto their shoulders down to the mat.

Both the standard and pinning variants, which was created in the 1950s, were named after its innovator, Karl Gotch, who had originally coined the move to be known as the Atomic suplex, but had to be scrapped by Japanese promoters due to the taboo nature of the Japanese atomic bombings post-Second World War.

The WWE superstar that uses the maneuver most commonly is Brock Lesnar, although it has also been used by Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle, and others in the past.

A Rebound German suplex sees the wrestler, while standing behind an opponent, shoves them forwards into the corner turnbuckles or ring ropes with enough force to cause them recoil backwards to then grab them around their waist, lift them up, and fall backwards while bridging their back and legs, slamming the opponent down to the mat shoulder and upper back first.

They use the momentum placing their legs on the top rope for leverage to bounce upwards and roll backwards to land on their feet to perform the German suplex.

Another version of this move called a Rebound O'Connor roll German suplex sees the wrestler standing behind the opponent.

Variants such as the cross-arm suplex or X-Plex see the opponent's arms crossed across their chest and held by the attacker.

A slight variation sees the attacker apply a half nelson choke instead of the sleeper hold before performing the suplex.

The attacker places their opponent in three-quarter nelson before lifting them and falling backwards, dropping them on their head or neck.

It can also be performed in a "snap" fashion, where the attacker stomps down hard and suplexes the opponent stiffly, resulting in a quicker throw.

This grip, as opposed to the waistlock of a normal belly-to-belly, is then used to hoist the opponent in the overhead arching throw.

They then throw the opponent to their side, dropping them to the mat up on to their upper shoulders, back, and neck or face down on their chest.

The wrestler then stands up to use their free underhand to grab, around the side of the opponent's near thigh to lift them off of the ground off their back.

In these suplexes, an attacker begins by facing the back of an opponent and applying an inverted facelock before executing a throw.