>6854 Samoans on the main roster
>Not one of them uses the Rikishi Driver

Why?

>>18135614 (OP)
Because Piledrivers are banned in WWE except for Tombstones performed by Kane and The Undertaker.

>>18135614 (OP)
Nia Jax should do it

>>18135621
nah you should

Butt just too cushion

>>18135619
Kevin Owens literally does Piledrivers as a plot point.

>>18135644
>Kevin Owens
and he had to be granted permission by WWE to do it
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GYkljbrit3U
you can't just go do a piledriver, you have to basically beg for years to be allowed, and you'd need to be a verified safe worker

>>18135662
people do piledrivers around the world daily without injury, Austin might have been literally the last piledriver injury, WWE need to get the fuck over it.

>>18135671

>>18135671
> Austin might have been literally the last piledriver injury
he wasn't, but injuring the guy that made you enough money to go public and cutting his career short left bad tastes in people's mouths

>>18135614 (OP)
I wouldn't trust a single Samoan on the roster to do a piledriver without killing the other guy

>>18135614 (OP)
They're all nepohires who don't know how to actually wrestle

>>18135614 (OP)
It was posthumously retired

>>18135614 (OP)
I'm not gonna lie, as much shit as I've talked about Rikishi, I always thought this was a nice-looking move
I like how he spreads his arms out first then suddenly brings them in to to drive the guy into the mat
Underrated move

>>18135614 (OP)
They don't have thighs thick enough or are midgets like Jacob and Solo

>>18135712
that what's the most recent one? I am genuinely asking. John Wayne Murdoch was a flipping piledriver off a balcony on to a ring that had the mat taken off and they missed the structure they'd set up to land on, so I can barely count that one as a piledriver injury. I am genuinely curious which other pilerdriver injury after austin you know about.

>>18135671
>it only happened once so lets risk it again
Retard

>>18136335
these rikishi drivers are after the austin injury, years after. People who are retconning that WWE banned piledrivers after Austin are retarded.

>>18135662
kek what a shitty driver

>>18135918
It's the Greetings From Asbury Park

>>18135619
Kevin Owen’s has done like 4 package piledrivers this year and gave Orton a traditional piledriver. If it wasn’t for his neck injury we’d probably see more of them.

anyone have that vince-era list of banned and get permission moves and spots

>>18137717
he is right man, piledrivers are the exception and the rule and they trust owens enough to do em so he gets to pull it out as a big spot
headdrop moves in general are banned, it's why you don't see puro style sawdusting in wwe for better or worse

>>18135614 (OP)
fenix used it on moxley

>>18135614 (OP)
Isn't that Big E's move

>>18137717
have you tried reading the thread before replying, you illiterate jeet?

>>18135614 (OP)
>Why?
Because they like their spines

>>18138046
Nah Big E would lay out and land on his back and the person would land flat like a front bump instead of any sort of driver type shit

>>18136301
Dan Severn
>Hart was supposed to pretend to hurt Severn, but instead did so for real.
>"I take the full impact on my head and I feel a bolt of lightning run down my spine and then run down my right leg... As I'm laying there, I try to look down. Can I feel my fingers? Can I see my fingers move? Can I feel my toes?"

>>18135614 (OP)
doesn’t jordynne grace do some kind of piledriver

>>18138298
And to think that one was also Owen's fault. What a shitter. No wonder Vince killed him.

>>18137723
lol no you just see Poughkeepsie house show loop sawdusting which is far worse

>>18135614 (OP)
WWE is Samoan property now

>>18138330
Yeah it's a really sketchy one too. I don't like it. Feels needlessly unsafe and it makes no sense why someone like her would use it. Her whole shtick is being a powerhouse muscle freak. Do something strong. Lift a bitch up and do some military press deal or a powerbomb or some kind of slam

>>18135619
penta does a destroyer piledriver every week

Mmmmm wouldn't want to mess with him!

>>18135621
She’ll botch it and kill somebody

>>18135614 (OP)
because rikishi is an anti-draw and the only reason people remember him is because of his post-Rock/Roman "SuHmOaN DiEnAsTy" online gimmick

>>18138825
he is a dumbass and his kids sick but everybody remembers rikishi, he is one of the most memorable guys from that era

>>18136301
>that what's the most recent one?
probably thousands happening every day in India

>>18135699
owen did that on purpose

>>18135614 (OP)

Samoans have a very set moveset, no slot for rikishi driver:

>Headbutt
>Spear
>Super Kick
>Splash
>Suicide Dive

Only Roman gets an extra move slot for Pooperman Punch.

>>18139988
And karma got to him

>>18140085
You forgot the Samoan drop

>>18140274
true. Add the turnbuckle hip drive as well. These island boys couldn't do a suplex or lock to save their lives.

>>18135699
oh you got me brother

>>18141067
KEK, you son of a bitch