The kinniku buster is one of the most dominant and spectacularly humiliating women’s wrestling holds. The girl who puts her opponent into this submission hold needs to have a serious size and strength advantage over her, otherwise it just won’t work out.

The move starts out with the attacker putting the victim onto one of turnbuckles. She then pulls her head down and gets one of her shoulders right behind the victim’s neck. She grabs both the victim’s legs at the knee-bend and she quite literally pulls her onto her shoulder. The move requires great balance and strength on the part of the attacker, because – at the peak of the hold – she will quite literally support the entire weight of her victim.

The victim will be completely helpless in the hold, turned upside down, with her legs pulled up behind her head, more than 5 feet off the ring-floor. If there is a truly precarious position to be in, in women’s wrestling, this has to be it.

The attacker can then simply opt to tighten the hold even more by wrapping the victim into a ball, and bouncing up and down with her to add pressure. She can also fall to a knee to achieve the same effect.

Possible escape: scream “I Give!” or hope that your opponent runs out of steam and puts you down. Landing from this position isn’t exactly a walk in the park either, so be careful what you wish for.

Rating: The Kinniku buster is a highly acrobatic move, and it is highly spectacular as well. It is a pretty efficient pro submission move (it obviously cannot be done in competitive matches), but the truth is, it is extremely straining on the attacker too, who has to bear the whole weight of her opponent through the hold.