In women’s professional wrestling, attacks involving the crotch are rather frequent and popular with the wrestlers as well as with the audience. As they say, everyone likes a nutshot, except the person receiving it. The crotch-stomp’s role is a dual one: on one hand, it creates physical pain for the victim, on the other, it humiliates, and thus it saps the victim’s will to carry on.

As far as technique is concerned, the crotch stomp is definitely among the simplest women’s wrestling holds. The attacker puts the victim onto her back and grabs both her legs by the ankles, holding the legs up and apart. She then places a foot on the victim’s crotch and begins to push, possibly moving her foot about in the process. The move does NOT target the back of the thigh, it targets the crotch. While the crotch stomp does indeed deliver a certain amount of pain, its true impact is in the way it humiliates the victim who gets her private parts used as a doormat by the attacker.

Possible escape: you must prevent your opponent to set up the hold. Once she does, there’s nothing you can do but suffer.

Rating: the crotch stomp is not going to win you the bout, nor will it take you any closer to winning it. It is a spectacular move that the audiences love (quite probably on account of the humiliation factor involved), and one that is great at achieving what it’s supposed to, but as far as actual efficiency is concerned, it is not that great.