How many mixed martial arts fans have you seen or heard online complaining about professional wrestling? If your answer is zero, then you're lying to yourself and you should be ashamed.
It's fairly common knowledge that a lot of UFC followers enjoy ribbing on WWE fans, mainly because they feel superior to them due to the nature of the sport that they follow.
That's all well and good and if violently typing out their feelings online makes them feel better, then fair enough. However, they may be interested to know that there are some wrestling moves that have been featured in the WWE that could legitimately end a fight in the world of MMA.
That may seem shocking and you may think we're stretching this idea a bit, but just go with it.
After all, even if you hate pro wrestling, nobody can deny the impact it has on wrestlers' bodies. If any one of these moves connects on a serious level, you're looking at a genuinely career-threatening injury.
This may seem like we're being overdramatic, but believe us when we say that you've got to be seriously tough if you want to maintain a career in sports entertainment. With that being said, let's take a look at five WWE moves that could finish a fight in the UFC.
#1 Kinshasa
If a man, let's say, Shinsuke Nakamura, runs towards you at full speed and knees you directly in the face - do you think you'd be able to survive? No, because nobody would.
If that kind of strong style came towards you, it would knock the average strongman senseless, which is what makes it such an effective move. Honestly, you wouldn't stand a chance.
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Obviously, in an MMA fight, you may not get the chance to do a run up as long as we're used to seeing with this move, however even from a slightly closer range, the odds are that it would be a case of lights out before you could even figure out what country you're in.
They say everyone has a plan until they get hit in the face, and the same can be said when talking about a devastating knee.
Onto a move that has quite literally ended careers.
#2 Piledriver
Dropping someone on their head tends to create one of two thoughts in your opposition's mind.
One: "I'm going to kill this guy" and two "am I paralysed?". The reason for this is that the Piledriver is commonly known for being one of the deadliest moves in the world of professional wrestling, which is probably why it's been banned in promotions such as the WWE.
One small botch or slip and it could be all over, and that's not an understatement.
In a world of takedowns, like we see so commonly in MMA, it's not out of the realms of possibility to see someone drop another fighter on their heads in an inverted Piledriver motion. Hell, if they were skilled and strong enough they'd probably be able to pull it off perfectly - which is rather worrying, to say the least.
From one evil finisher to an evil submission.
#3 Kimura
You know the Kimura lock, that oh so lovely thing that Brock Lesnar used for the first few years of his second WWE tenure.
It's a devastating submission hold and if you get caught in it there are two options - you either tap, or you get your arm broken. It really is that simple and in mixed martial arts, we all know that anything can happen at any given moment.
Getting caught in something that you weren't anticipating is what makes the sport so unpredictable, and you can bet all the money in the world that fighters would immediately start to panic if they realise that they've been subjected to a Kimura.
Just thinking about the way in which a human arm bends back whilst in this move makes us feel a little bit sick.
We move away from moves intended to submit with one intended to cause a TKO.
#4 Alabama Slam
The Alabama Slam is a vicious move that could easily knock your opponent out if you thrust them down to the canvas in the correct (or incorrect) way.
Nikki Bella has perfected it to the point where it's completely safe to execute on a weekly basis, however it could lead to a trip down to Concussion Avenue if it was used in the world of MMA. It could easily happen, too.
If you think about the logistics of how scrappy a fight can get, hoisting your opposing fighter into the air and flinging them back down to the ground would be a logical thing to do.
Obviously, there are a lot of risks involved and it would likely be used in a last-gasp act of desperation, but any martial artist will tell you how often that can happen when your back is against the wall inside of the octagon.
To conclude, we look at yet another banned move in WWE.
#5 Punt
This one is fairly obvious and it doesn't need much explaining. If you punt another human being in the head then in all likelihood you're going to cause a lot of damage.
Hell, the way in which this would end a sanctioned MMA fight is probably by disqualification. No matter how safely it may have been done by Randy Orton in the WWE, it doesn't take away from how bad it looks on television.
It's completely understandable that WWE removed it from the weekly programming, and it's even more understandable to consider that fighters would want to do this to their opponents from time to time.
After all, the trash talk in the days and weeks leading up to a bout gets to a lot of people and turns the fight into something a little bit more personal.
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