A professional wrestling maneuver in which a wrestler puts the opponent in a front facelock, hooks their pants or thigh, and lifts them up as if they were executing a vertical suplex. The wrestler then falls onto their back so that the opponent lands on their head while remaining vertical.
This move is a version of the DDT and innovated by Killer Karl Kox, an American wrestler.
In Japanese puroresu, the term "brainbuster" refers to a regular vertical suplex, while the move elsewhere known as a brainbuster is referred to as a "vertical drop brainbuster".
Popular brainbuster users:
Adam Cole (Uses a variant where he drops his opponent's head onto his knee instead of onto the ground)
