From this point, the wrestler places his leg in front of the opponent's opposite leg, and falls backwards, causing the opponent's arm to be slammed into the mat.

The wrestler places the opponent in a modified fireman's carry, in which the opponent is held diagonally across the wrestlers back with their legs across one shoulder and head under the opposite shoulder ( usually held in place with a facelock ).

The wrestler places both his hands behind the opponent's head, and then falls into a seated position, slamming the opponent's face into the canvas.

In this slam a wrestler places the opponent in a cobra clutch and then lifts the opponent into the air by his / her neck before jumping backwards, falling face down or into a sitting position, driving the opponent backfirst down to the mat.

The wrestler reaches under one of the opponent's arms with his / her corresponding arm and places the palm of his / her hand on the neck of the opponent, thereby forcing the arm of the opponent up into the air ( the half nelson ).

The wrestler sits on the back of his opponent, who is face down on the mat, and places the arm or, more commonly, both arms of the opponent on his thighs.

The wrestler then places his / her knee in the opponent's back, grasps the opponent's chin, and either pulls straight back on the chin or wrenches it to the side.

Standing behind his opponent, the wrestler hooks both of his opponent's arms from the sides, and places his hands palm down flat against the opponent's upper back.

The attacking wrestler then grabs the opponent's legs, crosses them, and places them under one of their armpits, bending the opponent to a pinning predicament.

One wrestler ( usually the larger one ) places an opponent over his or her shoulders in the fireman's carry position while the other attacking wrestler runs and jumps up alongside both men and takes hold / twists the neck of the opponent for any type of neckbreaker slam as the first wrestler falls down to the mat forcing the opponent down with them in a Samoan drop.

To play off their role as twins, Basham and Hollie often switched places mid-match, so the " fresher " wrestler was always in the ring, this idea was later used by The Bella Twins.

In the variant, the attacking wrestler first places an opponent so they are sat on the mat in one of the corners of ring before then ascending to the top rope / second rope of the corner at the opposite end of the ring ropes.

They gained an advantage by switching places with the third wrestler behind the referees ' backs, thus enabling them to outnumber the other teams three to two.

The Posse took part in a tag team battle royal for the number one contendership to the WWF World Tag Team Championship at Armageddon 1999, and gained an advantage by switching places with the third wrestler behind the referees ' backs, thus enabling them to outnumber the other teams three to two.

The wrestler faces the opponent, places his head between the hold of them.

This variant can be used on other types of piledriver ; including the cradle tombstone piledriver variation, instead of wrapping both of his arms around the waist of the opponent, the wrestler wraps one arm around the waist and places his other arm between the opponent's legs, grabbing hold of his other arm.

The wrestler places their stronger arm between the opponent's legs and their weaker arm on the opposite shoulder and lifts the opponent onto their stronger shoulder, similar to a scoop slam lift, and into a reverse piledriver position.

The wrestler first places their opponent face-up across their shoulders, as in an Argentine backbreaker rack, hooks the head with one hand and a leg with the other, and the wrestler will then spin the opponent's head away from the them, dropping the opponent down to the mat.

The wrestler places his opponent in between his legs then the wrestler lifts his opponent over his shoulder and holds both his arms in a cross position.

The wrestler faces a bent opponent and places him in the standing headscissors position ( bent forward with their head placed between the wrestler's thighs ).

A wrestler may not punch an opponent with a closed fist nor kick an opponent with the toe of their boot.

A wrestler may jump onto an opponent, whether standing or lying down, in any manner, including with a clenched fist ( à la Jerry Lawler's diving fist ) or the toe of a boot ( à la Randy Orton's punt attack ).

For example, an attacking wrestler who is half-conscious may simply drape an arm over a prone opponent, or a cocky wrestler may simply place his foot gently on a prone opponent's body, prompting a three-count from the referee.

While serving as a color commentator for WWE Smackdown, John Layfield pointed out that a wrestler sometimes will make pin attempts early in the match, despite knowing that he has not damaged his opponent enough to win, because sometimes the point is not to get a pin, but rather to force the opponent to expend energy for later in the match.

To score by submission, the wrestler must make his opponent give up, usually, but not necessarily, by putting him in a submission hold ( e. g. figure four leg-lock, arm-lock, sleeper-hold ).

If the wrestler has passed out, the opponent then scores by submission.

Also, a wrestler can win by knockout if he does not resort to submission holds, but stills pummels his opponent to the point that he is completely out cold.

Also, a wrestler can indicate a voluntary submission by " tapping out ", that is, tapping a free hand against the mat or against an opponent.

For example, a wrestler may get whipped into a referee at a slower speed, knocking the ref down for short amount of time ; during that interim period, one wrestler may pin his opponent for a three-count and would have won the match but for the referee being down ( sometimes, another referee will sprint to the ring from backstage to attempt to make the count, but by then, the other wrestler has had enough time to kick out on his own accord ).

In the 1980s, mixed tag team matches began to take place, with a male and female on each team and a rule stating that each wrestler could only attack the opponent of the same gender.

When Claudius performed as a wrestler in the 250's, he supposedly knocked out the teeth of his opponent when his genitalia had been grabbed in the match.

# The first wrestler to force his opponent to step out of the ring.

# The first wrestler to force his opponent to touch the ground with any part of his body other than the bottom of his feet.

On rare occasions the referee or judges may award the win to the wrestler who touched the ground first ; this happens if both wrestlers touch the ground at very nearly the same time and it is decided that the wrestler who touched the ground second had no chance of winning as, due to the superior sumo of his opponent, he was already in an irrecoverable position.

There are no weight divisions in sumo, and considering the range of body weights in sumo, an individual wrestler can sometimes face an opponent twice his own weight.

When one wrestler finally tapped-out and pulled away from his opponent, it was only then that he and the crowd realised the other man was, in fact, dead and had effectively won the match posthumously.

Only on 2 July at the Royal Albert Hall the Russian Lion faced the American champion Tom Jenkins, a vastly underrated wrestler who would prove to be Hackenschmidt ’ s toughest opponent to date, under Greco-Roman rules.

When picking pairs, the wrestler with the greatest fame has the privilege to choose his own opponent.

The wrestler stands beside his opponent to his either side, crosses his arm against the opponent's opposite hand in front of it ( as the wrestler stands beside the opponent, and uses for example his right arm, he would cross it against the opponent's left arm, and vice versa ).

The wrestler applies a cobra clutch and then leaps forward, falling into a sitting position and driving the face of the opponent into the ground.

The attacking wrestler then grabs the opponent's arms and lifts them over their thighs, similar to a camel clutch.

While one wrestler holds an opponent in a wheelbarrow clutch the second wrestler applies a front facelock and DDT's his opponent while the other wrestler drops to a sitting position impacting the opponents face to the mat, finishing the wheelbarrow facebuster.

This move involves an attacking wrestler first putting an opponent in a cobra clutch hold before then lifting the opponent up while maintaining the hold ( turning them in mid-air so they are horizontal ) and bringing them down while the wrestler drops to a knee so that the opponent impacts back-first on the knee of the attacking wrestler.

The attacking wrestler can maintain the hold after impact for a cobra clutch submission attempt.