The Persian Carpet ride is one female wrestling move you should not expect to find in any wrestling holds glossary. The reason is simple: it was a gimmick move of Farrah, the Persian Princess (something tells me there aren’t many princesses by that name running around in ancient Persia’s current day location) from the now defunct WOW (Women of Wrestling). The Gimmick behind the move was obvious: she was Persian, she was a princess, and she obviously rode magic carpets to work every day. And in her spare time, she wrestled for WOW. Makes perfect sense.

Anyway, looking beyond the ridicule of WOW’s gimmicks, the hold was a very solid combo submission hold, to which Sandy of the Beach Patrol almost fell victim during their tag match.

The attacker (Farrah) starts the hold by grabbing the right leg of her victim, who’s face down on the mat. She steps over the leg, and she bends it around, locking the other leg in the process, into a position closely resembling a double-toed leglock. She then grabs hold of her arms (in a Surfboard-like manner) and begins to pull backward on them, while keeping the legs locked.

Possible escape: probably none. The double toed leglock/surfboard combination is an extremely solid submission move, and had her partner Summer not come to her aid, Sandy would’ve probably been forced to surrender in the hold.

Rating: the hold does indeed look like a very solid submission move, so I’ll have to give it a rating of extremely efficient.