DDT (professional wrestling)

In professional wrestling a DDT is any move in which the wrestler falls down or backwards to drive the victim's head into the mat. The classic DDT is performed by putting the victim in a front facelock and falling backwards so that the victim is forced to dive forward onto his or her head. The DDT is often prefaced with a kick to the stomach in order to drive the head of the opponent downwards; a kick and a DDT in quick succession is referred to as a Flowing DDT.

Related Topics:
Professional wrestling - Front facelock

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The move was named by Jake "The Snake" Roberts, he gave it the name DDT for his snake Damien, standing for Damien's Dinner Time, though the abbreviation originally came from the chemical dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane, a notorious pesticide.

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Jake "The Snake" Roberts - Dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethane - Pesticide

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