Comparing pro wrestling to MMA is like comparing apples to oranges. One is fake and the other is about as real as it gets. Though some fighters have been known to dabble in pro wrestling before such as Josh Barnett, CM Punk, and of course Brock Lesnar who achieved greatness in MMA when he won the UFC heavyweight title and defended it twice, most of the time they stay in their lane though.

Plus a lot of those crazy moves you see in pro wrestling like body slams and high flying maneuvers may look really cool but you wouldn’t think they would be effective moves against a skilled, resisting opponent in an MMA fight, right? Think again.

In this recent MMA fight from Hunan, China from promotion Superstar Fight we see a crazy pro wrestling-esque move being pulled off from fighter Buren Wuliji and he actually uses it to finish the fight.

https://twitter.com/Grabaka_Hitman/status/819946206273142785

Now that move toes the line between being a foul and not as you cannot spike your opponent as his head like that at least under the unified rules, which makes sense as someone could easily break their neck or seriously tweak it.

Though similar pro wrestling type moves have been seen in MMA before such as when Bob Sapp pile-drived Antonio Rodrigo Minotauro Nogueira right on his head in their epic MMA fight in Pride FC. Or when Quinton ‘Rampage’ Jackson power bombed Ricardo Arona, knocking him out cold.

So does that mean we’re going to start seeing more types of these moves in MMA, and perhaps even more pro wrestlers making the switch to real fighting? Probably not, but it sure looks cool when they do happen.

https://twitter.com/Grabaka_Hitman/status/819945280690864128

Buren’s strength is quite impressive with that move, as you have to be quite strong to pick someone up like that and literally toss them or their head. You could tell his opponent, Beno Adamia, was done after that and probably shocked himself about how it ended.