#Ddt wrestling move professional#

From here, the wrestler performs a cartwheel across the ropes. In this variation, the wrestler stands on the top rope with the opponent standing in front of the wrestler. It was dubbed as 'Vintage Orton' since 2020. Randy Orton also occasionally uses this move. Tommaso Ciampa uses this move as his finisher he calls it 'Willows Bell'. This move is usually performed with the defending wrestler's feet on the middle rope, sometimes to an opponent attempting to enter the ring. The move is sometimes referred to as a spike DDT, because the defending wrestler lands in an upside-down, almost completely vertical position (known as the 'spiked' position, which refers to when a wrestler is actually dropped vertically upside down). With the opponent in the front facelock, the wrestler and the opponent both dive off the elevated surface, resulting in the wrestler falling forward to perform the DDT instead of falling backwards. A slight variation, known as a diving DDT or a Halo DDT, exists and sees the wrestler and the opponent both on an elevated surface, albeit with the wrestler facing the ring.

This can also be performed as a double team move. The attacking wrestler then falls backwards so that the opponent is forced to dive forward onto their head with extra force due to the height of which they were dropped. ring ropes), making them the only thing other than the wrestler keeping the opponent off the ground.

The attacking wrestler next draws the opponent away from the elevated surface leaving the opponent's feet over the elevated surface (i.e. This version of a DDT first sees an attacking wrestler place the opponent on an elevated surface, usually the ropes or the turnbuckle, while applying a front facelock. Randy Orton performing an elevated DDT on Sheamus This move was also used by former WWE Tough Enough winner Maven as the 'Halo DDT'. It is used by Yoshinobu Kanemaru as The Deep Impact. As they dive, the wrestler wraps their near arm around the opponent's head in a front facelock and swings themselves backwards in midair, landing back-first and simultaneously forcing the opponent's head into the mat. The wrestler stands in an elevated position (usually on the top rope) and faces the standing or bent-over opponent. Mick Foley, Stevie Richards, Drew McIntyre, and Jon Moxley have all popularized variations of this DDT: Foley used an unnamed jumping version, Richards uses a lifting version he calls the Stevie-T, McIntyre used a snap version called the Future Shock, and Moxley uses a lift-and-snap version called the Paradigm Shift. It is also known as a double arm DDT or a butterfly DDT. The wrestler then tucks the opponent's head under one of their arms and falls back to pull the opponent down either flat on their face, which is the more common variant, or onto the top of their head, causing them to roll over like in a regular DDT. Instead of applying a head or facelock, the wrestler bends the opponent forward and hooks each arm behind the opponent's head, a position known as a butterfly. When asked what DDT meant, Jake once famously replied 'The End.' The abbreviation itself originally came from the chemical dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane, a notorious pesticide, as stated during shoot interviews and Jake's Pick Your Poison DVD.ĭean Ambrose performing the Dirty Deeds on John Cena he later reverted to his Jon Moxley moniker and changed the name of the Dirty Deeds to the Paradigm Shift or the Death Rider

Rumors abound as to what the letters DDT supposedly stood for, including Damien's Death Trap, Damien's Death Touch, Damien's Dinner Time (all named after Jake's pet python, Damien) Double Diarrhea Tightrope, Drape Drop Takedown, Drop Down Town, Downward Dome Thrust, and Death Drop Technique. Although widely credited as an invention of Jake Roberts, who gave the DDT its famous name, the earliest known practitioner of the move was Mexican wrestler Black Gordman, who frequently performed it during the 1970s. The classic DDT is performed by putting the opponent in a front facelock and falling backwards so that the opponent is forced to dive forward onto their head.

#Ddt wrestling move professional#

In professional wrestling a DDT is any move in which the wrestler has the opponent in a front facelock/inverted headlock and falls down or backwards to drive the opponent's head into the mat. The DDT was popularized by Jake Roberts, who discovered it by accident.