JerryvonKramer Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Help me settle an old debate. I have a friend who claims that piledrivers are only meant to hurt a guy's neck, not the top of his head. He argued this when I criticised a worker for launching into a headbutt with the top of his head directly after taking a piledriver. What is your view on this most important of topics? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Ok, so I was 10 years old and over my friend Joe's house. Joe and I were best friends ever since kindergarten when I was the first kid on the bus and he was the second. Good kid. We had a lot of adventures, like dropping his Bob the Goon action figure out of his second story window. Well for some reason we were left alone there, decide to "try the wrestling at home." I hit him with a pretty badass spinebuster when he charged at me. He wanted to try a pile driver and since it was going to be on his bed, I said sure. It was a soft surface and the pile driver was supposed to hurt the top of the head. What was there to worry about? One stinger and tons of wussy crying later, I had a pretty damn good idea how the pile driver worked. It's the neck and just the neck. That's what takes the impact. Any damage to the head is minimal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RandomAct Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 It can hurt your neck, your back......and so on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Petey Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 is this real life? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Ask Steve Austin. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 i always figured you landed on your head, so there's some pain there, but it really hurts your neck as it compresses it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cristobal Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 But then if you are hit with a really hard piledriver could the impact ripple all the way down your back and end up hurting your tailbone more than anything? Like a super upside down, inverted atomic drop... By that logic, an atomic drop would end up hurting your head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Execproducer Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 When Harley Race was doing it, you got KTFO. Of course it hurts your head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kafkonia Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 But then if you are hit with a really hard piledriver could the impact ripple all the way down your back and end up hurting your tailbone more than anything? Like a super upside down, inverted atomic drop... Motion that this be the framistan for piledriver going forward. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Victator Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 A headbutt would also hurt an already injured neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryan Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 If the surface was hard enough and the head actually hit the ground, one would figure it would injure both pretty badly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Log Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 If you're Hawk, it hurts nothing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt D Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Wait, I will make a caveat that one of those ones on the floor when the mat is pulled up would hurt everything. But one on the general mat? Neck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRV Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Owen Hart tombstone, yes. Chris Benoit second rope powerslam, LESS. Also ask RVD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manzk Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 A headbutt would also hurt an already injured neck. This If the surface was hard enough and the head actually hit the ground, one would figure it would injure both pretty badly. Also this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sky Blue Sam Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 While I've always believed the pile driver mainly affects the neck, it would also hurt your head as a point of impact. The pain in your neck would be more severe, but I suspect that headbutting someone afterwards would let you know your head was hurting pretty badly too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooseCannon Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Help me settle an old debate. I have a friend who claims that piledrivers are only meant to hurt a guy's neck, not the top of his head. He argued this when I criticised a worker for launching into a headbutt with the top of his head directly after taking a piledriver. Is this a trick question where we are supposed to criticize someone for doing anything directly after taking a piledriver? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manzk Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Help me settle an old debate. I have a friend who claims that piledrivers are only meant to hurt a guy's neck, not the top of his head. He argued this when I criticised a worker for launching into a headbutt with the top of his head directly after taking a piledriver. Is this a trick question where we are supposed to criticize someone for doing anything directly after taking a piledriver? Fighting Spirit man. No sell the Piledriver and do a double lariaaaaaaaaato~! Pops the crowd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LooseCannon Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 Help me settle an old debate. I have a friend who claims that piledrivers are only meant to hurt a guy's neck, not the top of his head. He argued this when I criticised a worker for launching into a headbutt with the top of his head directly after taking a piledriver. Is this a trick question where we are supposed to criticize someone for doing anything directly after taking a piledriver? Fighting Spirit man. No sell the Piledriver and do a double lariaaaaaaaaato~! Pops the crowd. In that case, the guy who received the piledriver was knocked a little loopy and went for a headbutt because he forgot it would hurt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NintendoLogic Posted January 14, 2014 Share Posted January 14, 2014 But then if you are hit with a really hard piledriver could the impact ripple all the way down your back and end up hurting your tailbone more than anything? Like a super upside down, inverted atomic drop... Motion that this be the framistan for piledriver going forward. I think Bill Mercer actually did once refer to a piledriver as a reverse atomic drop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thee Reverend Axl Future Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Help me settle an old debate. I have a friend who claims that piledrivers are only meant to hurt a guy's neck, not the top of his head. He argued this when I criticised a worker for launching into a headbutt with the top of his head directly after taking a piledriver. What is your view on this most important of topics? I would really really like to show you... - RAF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt McGirt Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 Ok, so I was 10 years old and over my friend Joe's house. Joe and I were best friends ever since kindergarten when I was the first kid on the bus and he was the second. Good kid. We had a lot of adventures, like dropping his Bob the Goon action figure out of his second story window. Well for some reason we were left alone there, decide to "try the wrestling at home." I hit him with a pretty badass spinebuster when he charged at me. He wanted to try a pile driver and since it was going to be on his bed, I said sure. It was a soft surface and the pile driver was supposed to hurt the top of the head. What was there to worry about? One stinger and tons of wussy crying later, I had a pretty damn good idea how the pile driver worked. It's the neck and just the neck. That's what takes the impact. Any damage to the head is minimal. Not a piledriver story, but us kids used to sneak into the gym storage room at school and play-wrestle on the big blue mats they used for pole vaulting. I tried out a frog splash once with nothing underneath me... that was a different kind of pain right there. I already told the story about a bunch of kids jumping me on the track and powerbombing me on my shoulder here before. I was fucked up for months and they never got caught. Fucking bullies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hooks Posted January 15, 2014 Share Posted January 15, 2014 I dunno, I'd say that if you're dropped on top of your head on a surface where it will hurt your neck, your head is going to be kind of ouchy afterwards too. On a side note, when I was a kid growing up in my neighborhood, there was a guy my age who had a brother a couple years younger and they were always fighting, mainly because the older brother was a complete dickhead who picked on his younger brother too much. Anyway, I remember them getting into a fight once (when most of us were around 12 or 13) and wrestling around, and the older brother ended up catching his brother in the right position and deliver a pulling piledriver onto a gravel driveway. Really all it managed to do was scare the shit out of all of us, assuming the younger brother had to be dead. He was shaken up more than anything, and I didn't ask him if his head hurt....but I have to assume it did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kuetsar Posted January 16, 2014 Share Posted January 16, 2014 Help me settle an old debate. I have a friend who claims that piledrivers are only meant to hurt a guy's neck, not the top of his head. He argued this when I criticised a worker for launching into a headbutt with the top of his head directly after taking a piledriver. Is this a trick question where we are supposed to criticize someone for doing anything directly after taking a piledriver? If this is Memphis anytime up until the 2000's, then yes. . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cole Miner Posted January 17, 2014 Share Posted January 17, 2014 Was hit with a pile driver as a kid. Definitely the hurt the head a bit as well as the neck. Guy that did it is currently in jail for killing someone while drunk driving. Guess he never grew past the blatant disregard for the health of others. Only getting a year of jail time with work release is ridiculous. In a match though i don't think you should sell the head as sore unless there is also a double stomp and table involved. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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