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A stunner is a professional wrestling move, also a common term in professional wrestling referring to the ¾ facelock jawbreaker maneuver. The innovator of the move has been disputed, as both Mikey Whipwreck (who called it the Whippersnapper ) and Michael P.S. Hayes (who called it the 9-1-1 ) have both claimed to be behind the origin of the move.
A stunner is a three-quarter facelock jawbreaker. It involves an attacking wrestler applying a three-quarter facelock (reaching behind the head of an opponent, thus pulling the opponent's jaw above the wrestler's shoulder) before falling to a seated position and forcing the defender's jaw to drop down on the shoulder of the attacking wrestler.
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The attacking wrestler gets the opponent in the Argentine backbreaker position as to execute the Argentine Backbreaker drop. The attacking wrestler then pushes the opponent's legs so that they flip horizontally 180 degrees. As the opponent's weight is being shifted to one side, the attacking wrestler applies the 3 ⁄ 4 facelock and drops the ...
Nikki Bella holds the Argentine backbreaker rack on Naomi. A 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 or kneeling position, thus flexing the opponent's back with the impact of the drop.
Moments later, Austin hit a Stone Cold Stunner on Angle and attempted a pinfall but Van Dam broke up the pin. Van Dam set Austin up in the corner, and hit a Corkscrew Moonsault for a near-fall. Angle hit an Angle Slam on Van Dam and attempted a pinfall but Austin broke up the pin. Austin knocked Angle from the ring, and then went outside the ...
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Kenta, the innovator of the maneuver, also uses an inverted variation in which he lifts his opponent into an Argentine backbreaker rack, throwing the opponent forward and striking his knee in the back of the opponent's head, called Ura Go 2 Sleep (Ura means inverted). CM Punk popularized the regular variant. As of 2022, the move was used by ...