Facebuster
Sign in to saveA facebuster, also known as a faceplant, is a takedown move in professional wrestling in which an attacking wrestler forces their opponent down to the mat face-first without involving a headlock or facelock. A standard facebuster, also known as a jumping facebuster, involves the wrestler grabbing hold of the opponent's head/hair and dropping down to their knees, forcing the opponent's face into the mat.
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- Variants
- Argentine facebuster
- Belly-to-back inverted mat slam
- Belly-to-back facebuster
- Swinging belly-to-back facebuster
- Diving facebuster
- Double underhook facebuster
- Inverted double underhook facebuster
- Lifting double underhook facebuster
- Electric chair facebuster
- Fallaway powerbomb
- Fireman's carry facebuster
- Forward Russian legsweep
- Full nelson facebuster
- Front facelock drop
- Gory bomb
- Inverted double leg slam
- Inverted swinging facebuster
- Kneeling facebuster
- Over the shoulder facebuster
- ''Ura-Shouten''
- Powerbomb facebuster
- Push-up facebuster
- Reverse chokeslam facebuster
- Shoulder facebuster
- Sitout facebuster
- ''Vietnam Driver II''
- Spinning facebuster
- Vertical suplex facebuster
- Wheelbarrow facebuster
- Belly-to-back wheelbarrow facebuster
- Chickenwing facebuster
- See also
- References
A facebuster, also known as a faceplant, is a takedown move in professional wrestling in which an attacking wrestler forces their opponent down to the mat face-first without involving a headlock or facelock. A standard facebuster, also known as a jumping facebuster, involves the wrestler grabbing hold of the opponent's head/hair and dropping down to their knees, forcing the opponent's face into the mat.
==Variants== ===Argentine facebuster=== The attacking wrestler places an opponent in an Argentine backbreaker rack, where the opponent is held face-up across both the shoulders of the wrestler. From here the wrestler falls sideways (towards the side where the opponent's head is held) while still holding the opponent's head with one arm and flipping the opponent's legs over with the other, driving them down to the mat face-first. WWE wrestler Bianca Belair uses this move and calls it the Kiss of Death (K.O.D).