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This article is about the wrestling move. For the video game, see Backbreaker (Video Game). more...

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A backbreaker refers to professional wrestling moves which see a wrestler dropping an opponent so that the opponent's back impacts or is bent backwards against a part of the wrestler's body.

Variations

Argentine backbreaker rack

This backbreaker submission, better known as a Torture rack, sees the attacking wrestler place his/her opponent face-up across the wrestler's own shoulders before hooking the head with one hand and a leg with the other to then pull down on both ends to flex the opponent's back. This move is closely associated with American wrestlers Lex Luger and Hercules Hernandez.

The Argentine backbreaker drop variation of this submission move sees the attacking wrestler first hold an opponent up for the Argentine backbreaker rack before dropping to the mat in a sitting/kneeling position, thus flexing the opponent's back with the impact of the drop. The seated variation of this move, known as the Shock Treatment, is used by Abyss as one of his finishers.

The Burning Hammer is A variation of the Argentine backbreaker drop version sees the wrestler lift the opponent further up by lifting the opponents legs and pulling down on their head further before performing the drop. This isolates and increases the damage in the neck and ribcage areas rather than across the back.

Backbreaker drop

A backbreaker move in which a wrestler lifts an opponent up into a backbreaker submission hold before dropping down to a sitting or kneeling position while maintaining the hold, thus jarring the back of the opponent by driving the opponent's spine into the attacking wrestler's shoulder.

Notable variations include: Argentine backbreaker drop, Canadian backbreaker drop

Another variation is the double underhook backbreaker drop which sees the attacking wrestler first face a bent over opponent and hook both of the opponent's arms with their own arms before then flipping the opponent up and over so the opponent's back is resting on the wrestler's shoulder, with the opponent's head pointing in the direction that the wrestler is facing. The attacking wrestler then drops to a kneeling or sitting position while maintaining the hold, thus jarring the back of the victim by driving the victim's spine into the attacker's shoulder.

Belly to back suplex backbreaker

The wrestler stands behind his opponent and puts his head under the arm of the opponent, as for a belly to back suplex, but raises a knee, and brings the opponent back down, so that the opponent's back collides with the knee of the wrestler.

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