Idk i guess something to do with the move being executed as a sunset flip powerbomb and the opponent sells it as a flip piledriver just as Rey drives him on the mat might be the whole deal with it being a safer way to perform, Other than that who knows?

 

What's the difference between a top rope splash and all the big flippy ones that end up being a splash?

 

One is a Canadian Destroyer

The other is a piledriver

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What's the difference between walking and running? You're moving forward in both cases...

 

What's the difference between boxing and mixed martial arts?

 

What's the difference between soda and sparkled water?

 

Vince being a stupid out of touch old boy-lover is the difference.

 

The Canadian Destroyer is the greatest move ever that takes incredible skill to perform. A piledriver is a lame cringe inducing move any geek can do.

 

The Piledriver's American the Canadian Destroyer is... well... Canadian.

 

Ones been turned into a 5 moves of doom by pentagon and the other is a piledriver

 

I guess they trust rey to perform it. Should be his finisher as 619 is a bit shit tbh

 

Adam Cole pulled it out I think at halftime heat, may have been the worlds collide tournament but he teased it at one and pulled it off at the other

 

The Undertaker still uses the Tombstone as far as I know?

I thought the stance on Piledrivers was that Legends can preform them in big matches, which doesn't explain why they are being used on Smackdown, but WWE obviously has trust in Rey and Andrade in performing the move safely.

The Canadian Destroyer probably won't be used against many other guys.

 

WWE banned the tombstone from other wrestlers because they want it exclusive to the brother's of destruciton.

WWE banned piledrivers because while most wrestlers are strong enough to hold someone in position, very few can perform one safely. It looks deceptively easy and WWE doesn't want wrestlers trying it.

The Canadian Destroyer is in the same boat as the Tombstone. It's hard and they'll allow only a handful of the wrestlers to try it. But, it's so hard, only a handful of wrestlers would try it.

 

They ban the piledriver for like 20 years,The Undertaker can't Tombstone

WWE banned the tombstone from other wrestlers because they want it exclusive to the brother's of destruciton.

WWE banned piledrivers because while most wrestlers are strong enough to hold someone in position, very few can perform one safely. It looks deceptively easy and WWE doesn't want wrestlers trying it.

The Canadian Destroyer is in the same boat as the Tombstone. It's hard and they'll allow only a handful of the wrestlers to try it. But, it's so hard, only a handful of wrestlers would try it.

Best answer. WWE never banned Taker from doing Tombstones. Only Kane & Taker are allowed to do the "tombstone" variation due to their height.

The regular sit-down piledrivers were concussing people and breaking necks. Usually you can immediately tell when someone has botched it. It's ugly.

This is probably the textbook version of the right way to give/take the move. Notice the placement of the hands of the guy taking the move. His arms aren't wrapped under the guy's thighs.

 

Seems like there's more of a team effort to pull off a Canadian Destroyer, the recepient can time the move themselves, whereas in a piledriver basically one man has total control of the other man's life in his hands

 

Vince doesn´t know the Canadian Destroyer is a flashy piledriver.

 

This. Isn't there a story where Jericho convinced Vince to let AJ use the "banned" styles clash simply by calling it something else and Vince was unaware it was the same move?

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Canadian Destroyer

Piledriver

The main difference is the Canadian Destroyer has more bells and whistles, a piledriver is pretty much just the standard drop. Both scare the shit out of me when I see them being done today though lol.

 

Title of the thread could perhaps be "Has WWE Relaxed the Ban on Piledrivers" now that Adam Cole has also done the Panama Sunrise during Halftime Heat.

Nevermind that it's effectively the same bump (maybe even safer) than a reverse Frankensteiner that everyone and their dog has been doing for years...

 

The Canadian Destroyer is safer. It's the difference between doing a handstand and a somersault.

With a piledriver, you're spiking a dude down on the top of his head. The objective of course is to not actually drop him on his head, but it can happen.

With a Canadian Destroyer, the person giving is essentially doing a sunset flip and the person taking is rolling through the motion backwards. If they under-rotate, the person taking doesn't come close to landing on their head. If they land normally or even over-rotate, the person taking is mostly rolling through the motion, so even if they land on their head, the momentum should be carrying them forward instead of spiking them downwards. There's more room for error because the botches are less dangerous.

 

Also the rolling momentum of the Canadian Destroyer allows the recepient to roll forward out of the landing. The piledriver is just a straight down drop, all the weight is going down. None of it is moving forward



Beat me to it

 

One's a Piledriver & the other's a Canadian Destroyer, eh.

 

It's funny the WWE acts like the move was just invented and is so amazing it doesn't have a name. lol. they did it with Rey and Adam Cole (during half time heat)

 

One's impactful and serious. The other one's completely ludicrous to take seriously and kills suspension of disbelief because why the fuck would your opponent jump and do a move with you? It's even worse in Adam Cole's case because why would your opponent bend down, stay bent down, stay in the same position, and then do a move with you. One of, if not the, worst moves in wrestling.

 

Thanks, I hate it. It's honestly probably the worst. Other than shit that is crazy dangerous like the Phoenix plex, I can't think of a worse move

 

I admit, that my taste in wrestling goes more for the theatrical than the realistic (I quite like Johnny Surname's C4 for instance), but even I think the Canadian Destroyer is a crap move.

Thanks, I hate it. It's honestly probably the worst. Other than shit that is crazy dangerous like the Phoenix plex, I can't think of a worse move

See I could see breaking out something like the Phoenix Plex as a once in blue moon ultimate finisher like Kenta does The Burning Hammer because that looks absolutely devastating (because it is crazy dangerous like the burning hammer)there is never a reason to use a Canadian destroyer. Admittedly that might be my love of bridging suplex variations clouding my judgement.

 

What is the difference between Pizza and Pizza with pineapple?

 

I think the general ban on those moves is more to keep the less skilled guys from trying moved their skill level does not allow them to perform safely. The Pile driver is just dropping a guy on his head while the Canadian destroyer is much more flashy but accomplished the same goal, dropping someone on their head. Guys like Undertaker and Kain long term reliable guys trusted by the company and have a record of not making mistakes in the ring with the move. The Canadian Destroyer or the Panama Sunrise is much more skillful an athletic move that cannot be done by some wrestlers. Technically sound wrestlers like Mysterio, Andrade and Adam Cole can pull off the flashy moves without injuring others. Cole probably had to get permission for that though.

 

They allow the reverse frankensteiner and Canadian Destroyer is the same bump. The person receiving does land a little flatter and sometimes even knees first

 

Question kind of answers itself.

Off topic but kinda not really... Paul Orndoff had a great piledriver. Also I loved Bam Bam's Greetings From Asbury Park, but I guess that wasn't technically a piledriver.