The Venus Flytrap is quite possibly one of the hottest, but in the same time meanest women’s wrestling submission holds. I’m not even convinced that the hold officially exists. I’ve only ever seen pro wrestler Venus use it, and since it’s one of her signature finishers, I’ve concluded that she was the one who developed the hold. The Venus Flytrap is an incredibly intricate hold to apply. Only locked on though, it is not only highly spectacular, it is quite impossible to escape for the victim, so it basically guarantees an extremely spectacular and humiliating tap-out. At first glance, the hold may look like a spladle but it’s much more than that.

The Venus flytrap starts out with the attacker putting the victim into a hammerlock. She then steps under the victim’s free arm, while keeping the hammerlock on. She then bends the victim’s head forward, and puts her right leg behind the victim’s right leg, so when she rolls her over forward, the victim’s leg will end up hooked by her own, similarly to a spladle. Once the victim is rolled forth onto her back, the attacker hooks her free leg with her arm and secures the small package on her, while keeping the hammerlock locked in at all times. The victim will thus end up with her bottom pointing upward and both her legs completely folded up and secured, while the attacker still has her arm in a hammerlock under her body. All the attacker needs to do then is to gently tug on the hammerlocked arm of the victim, and cries of uncle are guaranteed to fill the ring soon.

Possible escape: none. The Venus Flytrap is a highly spectacular finisher, the appeal of which lies in the very fact that it has the victim completely and utterly exposed and helpless.

Rating: the Venus flytrap is an extremely efficient and in the same time spectacular ladies’ wrestling submission hold. The humiliation factor shouldn’t be ignored either: the Venus Flytrap has got to be the most humiliating female wrestling hold I have ever personally witnessed.