Bleacher Report's Chris Mueller ranked five of wrestling's most perilous maneuvers. Among them was the moonsault. The moonsault is mostly straightforward — well, technically it's over and backward — requiring a backflip and ending with the wrestler landing stomach first on an opponent. It's not hard to imagine how that might go terribly wrong. Sadly, you don't have to imagine because Deadspin gives the example of indie wrestler Charade, who broke his skull when he landed head-first during a moonsault attempt.
Another brutal maneuver is the powerbomb, which is so catastrophically botch-able that it used to be banned. Associated with famous big men like Kevin Nash and Batista, the move entails hoisting another person into the air so that their legs rest on your shoulders and then slamming that person back-first on the mat. As Fox Sports describes, Darren Drozdov, a former NFL player and "one of WWE's brightest prospects," was left quadriplegic after a powerbomb gone wrong.
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