The diving headbutt, which Daniel Bryan has used throughout his career, is a move that even when everything goes right is a self-inflicted car crash.
The injury history of the men who have used it most, as well as the lack of a protection a wrestler has when executing it, makes this exciting move one that is simply not worth the risks. One can please a crowd with moves that don’t cause as much damage to one’s self.
Bryan’s recent need for neck surgery may have come without it, but the soaring crash that is had to have upped his chances of leaving his body busted.
Pro wrestling’s scripted nature doesn’t remove the danger from the industry; it curbs and controls it, and in some cases just shifts it to the attacker rather than the recipient.
When done correctly, a Tombstone piledriver doesn’t really crack a man’s head on the mat, it forces the man hitting the move to crash onto their own knees. It’s the same for a running splash. The man flying in the air lands more on his hands and knees than he does onto the man underneath him.
Like with Bryan’s diving headbutt, the aggressor does more harm to himself.
Bryan’s stunning flight from turnbuckle to mat is not done by many wrestlers. It not only requires great body control and agility but is like smashing a hammer onto one’s own hands.
That’s likely a big part of why Bryan didn’t make the move a regular part of his repertoire. He pulled it out for big matches, when the spotlight was the brightest. The latest example of him slipping it out of the holster was at the Extreme Rules event.
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