#6 Kinniku Buster
Samoa Joe’s Muscle Buster is an extremely dangerous move. If you don’t think that's true go ask Tyson Kidd, the man who’s career was as good as ended by it, early last year. While Joe is a true professional and performs the move in a safe manner, 99% of the time, it still involves a whole lot of compacting of an individual, leading to pressure where it isn’t supposed to be applied.
If someone wanted to make the Muscle Buster even more dangerous, the Kinniku Buster would be the result. The set-up for the move is similar to the Muscle Buster, but instead of falling flat on one’s back, the perpetrator of the move falls on his behind or his knees, leaving nowhere for the victim’s neck to go but directly into the shoulder.
It isn’t pretty, and it pretty much guarantees lights out.
The move is rarely seen in actual professional wrestling because of how dangerous it is, originating, in fact, from beyond the realm of non-fiction. The Kinniku Buster is one of the 48 Killer moves of Kinnikuman, the eponymous character of Japan’s premier wrestling comic.
We’d love to see this used as a super finisher for Samoa Joe at some point, although hopefully with safe results.
