Pictionary of Wrestling Holds
Knee Backbreaker


Personal definition:

The wrestler lifts up his opponent and puts the opponent's back on his knee. Optionally, the wrestler can bend the opponent over his knee. Wiki calls this just a regular backbreaker.
Big Book of Wrestling Moves definition: Back Breaker Hold, Cross Knee
Used by : Heidi Lee Morgan, Hector Guerrero, Chris Jericho
Description : The victim is laying across the knee of the attacker as if they've been given a back breaker drop. The attacker pushes down on the victim's chest/head and their thigh so that the the victim's back is stretched across the attacker's knee.
Wiki definition:
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This basic backbreaker submission involves the wrestler to lay his opponent's back across one of his knees, then while placing one hand on his opponent's chin and the other on their knee the wrestler would push down to bend the opponent around his/her knee.

This move is usually performed at the end of a pendulum backbreaker, a move which sees a wrestler drop an opponent down on the wrestler's knee, thus weakening the back before the hold is applied.

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Personal rating:

Ease of execution: 4.77
Required strength: 6.25
Required resistance: 7.18
Effectiveness: 8.29
Autonomy: 5.14


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