I'm reading old results in English newspapers and I have seen this result multiple times. Is it a Backslide? Is it a bridging belly-to-back suplex? I'm researching Tommy Mann, specifically, if that helps. Thank you!
I think I have found it used interchangeably with "Spring Body Throw" so I am pretty sure it is a bridging suplex. I've also seen "overhead folding press" which I also think is a bridging suplex and, as Anglo points out, is not a physical impossibility like an "overhead shoulder press" would be.
Hi Anglo. I think that my previous post explains that.
The two men are back to back. The aggressor bends right forward stretching the other over his back until his shoulders touch the canvas. He is then held there for the count.
I apologize. I was using the image to demonstrate how the newspapers described holds without using the common name. That is not an image of the overhead shoulder press.
The more I look at that picture, I don't think that this relates to an overhead shoulder press, as this is a submission hold.
I think that an o. s. press would be with the wrestlers back to back, where the fall would come from one man bending right forward and trapping the other's shoulders to the canvas.
I think I have found it used interchangeably with "Spring Body Throw" so I am pretty sure it is a bridging suplex. I've also seen "overhead folding press" which I also think is a bridging suplex and, as Anglo points out, is not a physical impossibility like an "overhead shoulder press" would be.
Yes Bernard, I was replying again to MDW further to my original reply.
Nothing like an impossible question to stoke debate!
Hi Anglo. I think that my previous post explains that.
The two men are back to back. The aggressor bends right forward stretching the other over his back until his shoulders touch the canvas. He is then held there for the count.
The three words still cannot go together.
A shoulder press is back to canvas, to claim a fall.
Overhead means ... overhead.
It's just Kent Walton commentary misremembered and misrecorded some time after a tv show.
To the uninitiated, it possible sounds plausible, or legit.
I apologize. I was using the image to demonstrate how the newspapers described holds without using the common name. That is not an image of the overhead shoulder press.
The more I look at that picture, I don't think that this relates to an overhead shoulder press, as this is a submission hold.
I think that an o. s. press would be with the wrestlers back to back, where the fall would come from one man bending right forward and trapping the other's shoulders to the canvas.
Although the picture is not very clear, George Kidd used to use a submission hold announced by Les Kellett as a "Reverse surfboard."
It sounds like a bridging belly to back suplex, there's one or two wrestlers who use it today
Sometimes you luck out and get a picture. The paper called this a "muscle rending hold" but it is clearly a surfboard.
Sounds like a backslide
Oh, is this a mystery others, as well?
An impossibility!