Wrestling Holds/Finishers you just don’t see anymore

[KYR]

Apologies if this has been done recently.

While writing my first post and reminiscing about all those Old-School wrestlers, I started thinking about Killer Karl Kox.

KKK was my favourite heel as a kid and his “devastating” finisher was the Brain Buster.

For those of you who don’t know the BB, picture a vertical suplex but rather than having your opponent fall on his back, he landed on his head.

Invariably, the medics then had to come to the ring and stretcher out his opponent. Next week, his opponent would show up in a neck brace vowing to get revenge once they got better and selling the “injury” (of course, if Cena had've been around in those days he would've got straight up).

I remember at the live shows the very audible gasps from the crowd as KKK lifted his opponent into the air and suspended him there before delivering the final blow. Of all the heels, I reckon KKK was the most hated of his time simply because of his signature move.

Was it dangerous? No doubt...if performed by amateurs. But I don’t ever recall a mishap or real injury resulting from KKK performing this move.

There aren’t that many moves that involve dropping your opponent directly on his head. Tombstone (where most of the time, you can see the head miss the mat by miles) and to some degree the DDT (same) are a couple.

But I haven’t seen the BB since the days of KKK which prompts me to ask what other moves have disappeared.