Frog Splash - Shiranui

Shiranui

The shiranui is a backflip three-quarter facelock falling inverted DDT, it was created by Naomichi Marufuji. This move has a wrestler put the opponent in a three-quarter facelock and run up the corner turnbuckles or ring ropes and jump backwards, performing a backflip in the air, and landing face down to the mat, driving the opponent back-first down to the mat. Sometimes a standing variant is performed by wrestlers with adequate leaping ability, or when assisted by a tag team partner. The move is popularly known, especially in North America, as Sliced Bread #2, a name created by wrestler Brian Kendrick and used by lots of other wrestlers In a slight variation named sitout shiranui the wrestler lands instead to a seated position, driving the opponent's head between his legs. This variant was called Contra Code when performed by Jimmy Jacobs on the independent circuit. Union/double-team variants exist, most notably "Made In Detroit" performed by the Motor City Machine Guns is a combination shiranui out of the corner from Alex Shelley and powerbomb by Chris Sabin.

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