However, Ziggler never picks up the victory with this move. He uses it as a jumping DDT, leaping into the air, often as a reversal, transitioning it into the DDT which looks great, but never leads to a win. Roode is quite an old-school wrestler with his psychology and style, therefore having an old-fashioned finisher really works well.
Everything about Roode is methodical and the fact he always works on specific body parts normally allows him to set up for the DDT. The way Roode normally launches his opponent into the air before impact really adds to things as well, as it makes the impact so much better.
His version is the slingshot DDT where he leaps over the top rope and then connects with the move upon his return.
This always looks really good, but Gargano rarely has success with is. This is something that often leads to a near fall and nothing more, which makes it a failure overall. However, he has used it to more success since turning heel. Another wrestler who uses the DDT as his finisher is Andrade, who makes the move look absolutely fantastic.
This is the Hammerlock DDT, which always delivers, with the slight variation of him wrapping the arms back really adding to the move. It proves how devastating this old-school move can be as the impact upon the mat really looks great. The fact that fans now associate this move with a top tier talent just proves that it is still able to be a viable finisher. Rey Mysterio makes his DDT's look tremendous, using his aerial ability to flip around his opponents and then plant them down to the mat.
It always looks awesome and gets a reaction from the fans, but it never leads to him winning a match. As stated above, the one on Hogan became a vintage moment, but there are several others worth of a mention.
The most infamous was probably the one he applied on Steamboat right on the concrete on an episode of Saturday Night Main Event in Steamboat's wife was in the assistance and Roberts pointed her before executing the DDT. To add even more mystic to the move, the meaning of the word DDT is not clear, which goes with Roberts's character.
It can also be a reference to the dangerous pesticide with the same name which makes sense since both the wrestling move and the chemical product cause brain damage. The DDT was always seen as a devastating finishing maneuver when it was applied by Jake Roberts and by a few others, like Adrian Adonis and Wendy Richter, who adopted the move under its original version in the '80s.
However, from the '90s, with its several variants, the DDT became a simple signature move for many wrestlers, except for Chyna who used it as a finisher. Edge also got his own variant, called the Edgecution. The Rock went with two different versions the move, the floating and the flowing snap DDT.
For a few years, Randy Orton applies his rope-hung trademark DDT in almost all of his matches and that is probably the variation that looks the most devastating along with the tornado DDT mostly used by lighter wrestlers. To conclude, as in the previous parts of the series dedicated to the figure-four leglock and the piledriver , I invite you to watch some vintage moments featuring the famous DDT.
You can watch Steamboat receiving the famous DDT on the concrete here, but we only get 17 seconds of the segment. See: Cradle brainbuster. Instead of applying a head or face lock, the wrestler bends his opponent forward and hooks each arm behind the opponent's back, tucks the opponent's head under one of his arms, and then falls back to pull the opponent down either flat on his face, which is the more common variant, or onto the top of their head, causing them to roll over, like in a regular DDT.
This move was used by Mick Foley to set his opponent up for the Mandible claw. Kizarny uses a variation with body scissors. Jon Moxley used it and calls it "Dirty Deeds". The attacking wrestler next draws the opponent away from the elevated surface leaving the opponent's feet over the elevated surface i. This can also be performed as a double team move. Also known as a front flip DDT. The wrestler then spreads their legs, dropping off the opponent's shoulders as they grab hold of the opponent's head in a front facelock to fall down to the mat back first, driving the opponent's head down to the mat.
This move sees the attacking wrestler get lifted up in a powerbomb position so often this move is used as a counter to a powerbomb. The maneuver is usually performed after the attacker ducks a punch or a clothesline. After applying a front facelock , the wrestler hooks the opponent's near leg with his other arm, lifts them up into a vertical position, and falls backwards on to his back, driving the opponent's head down to the mat.
This move is also known as a Leg hook DDT. This variation sees the attacker hook one arm of their opponent behind their back in a hammerlock position and hook one leg with their own leg then execute the front facelock into a DDT. Implant DDT refers to variations of the DDT where the opponent is driven to the mat face first, as in a faceplant, and not on to their heads. The most common variation is the Lifting DDT. A common variation of the Double underhook DDT is the implant variation.
Another variation of the implant DDT sees the wrestler place their opponent in a headlock, but instead of falling backwards they leap backwards onto their back, pulling the opponent with them face first to the mat.
A slight variation where instead of just falling backwards, the wrestler jumps up while holding the front facelock, so that they are horizontal, and then uses the weight and momentum to pull the opponent down on their head. Mickie James uses this as her finisher, which she calls the Mickie-DT. Also, a variation of this move is sometimes seen where, as the wrestler jumps, they use the horizontal position to execute a Front Dropkick to the knees of the opponent to add additional impact to the move.
In these versions of a DDT the wrestler applies a front facelock and then performs a type of legsweep to essentially take out the legs from under the opponent before falling backwards to drive the opponent face first down to the mat. Paul London used a variation of this in Ring of Honor where he hooked one of his legs around the opponent's, in a manner similar to that of a reverse STO , before sweeping their leg as he fell backwards to deliver extra force.
Consequences Creed also uses this version and calls it the Creed-DT. The attacking wrestler applies a front facelock to an opponent then lifts the opponent off the ground just before falling backwards to drive the opponent face or head first down to the mat.
Edge also used the move as a finisher and called it the Edgecution. A slight variation of this, sees the wrestler spin the opponent's body away from themselves as they raise the opponent off the ground.
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