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Yoshi Tatsu has suffered a broken neck. The former WWE star is currently working for New Japan Pro Wrestling and was wrestling AJ Styles on the November 8th “Power Struggle” internet pay per view. The “Styles Clash” finisher went wrong, causing two broken bones in Tatsu’s neck.

The Japanese star went on social media to reveal the hospital diagnosis. He’s feeling down about the two broken bones, but has had plenty of support from his followers. This was the first time that he’s ever had to be hospitalised.

It isn’t the first time that a wrestler has been badly injured from the Styles Clash. British star Lionheart also suffered a broken neck back in March.

That isn’t to say AJ Styles is an unsafe worker. There’s just as much responsibility on the person taking the move as there is on the person executing it. This isn’t a situation like when Owen Hart carelessly broke Steve Austin’s neck in 1997; the Styles Clash is very different from a piledriver.

Still, incidents like this won’t do Styles any favours in WWE’s eyes. He was already unlikely to ever end up with the big league. It is a little bit ironic that Michelle McCool used the Styles Clash as her finisher in WWE and nobody ever got hurt.

Tatsu actually went on to wrestle at the opening night of New Japan’s World Tag League Tournament. He later pulled out as it dawned on him how seriously hurt he was.

He mentioned on Twitter that he is in a lot of pain and is trying to avoid taking sleeping pills.

 

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I listened to a interview about this idea about his finisher with comments from Aj. The thing is(from what I have heard from interviews and just observed) the problem is usually with the person taking it just not taking it right. Most of the situations it's the guy not putting his head/neck in the right position(don't remember the exact way to describe it). Roderick took a rough one when AJ came back and he even said it was on him for just not taking it properly. A lot of moves are a two way street like that. The performer can do it perfectly but the guy taking it can do one thing and horrible botch it. Not to say it's all yoshi's fault per say, just we gotta remember to look at both sides.

 

Also for how long AJ as been doing the move, it's not like he has this huge list of people he has injured with the move so I wouldn't jump on the "Make him stop doing it" train.

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List of people who's neck has been broken by Styles with the Styles Clash.

 

Frankie Kazarian (NWA:TNA, July 2 2003)
Steve Stone (IWA-MS, 2004)
Sterling James Keenan (1PW, March 4th 2006)
Roderick Strong (ROH, February 1st 2014)
Lionheart (PCW, March 1st 2014)
Yoshi Tatsu (NJPW, November 8th 2014)

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I listened to a interview about this idea about his finisher with comments from Aj. The thing is(from what I have heard from interviews and just observed) the problem is usually with the person taking it just not taking it right. Most of the situations it's the guy not putting his head/neck in the right position(don't remember the exact way to describe it). Roderick took a rough one when AJ came back and he even said it was on him for just not taking it properly. A lot of moves are a two way street like that. The performer can do it perfectly but the guy taking it can do one thing and horrible botch it. Not to say it's all yoshi's fault per say, just we gotta remember to look at both sides.

 

Also for how long AJ as been doing the move, it's not like he has this huge list of people he has injured with the move so I wouldn't jump on the "Make him stop doing it" train.

 

 

I completely agree. People bring up him hurting three guys in a year but he's hit the move thousands of times and the move has only been botched a handful of times. Personally though I think if there is anyone at fault it's the guy taking the move. I'd like to think that AJ is a pretty well known guy at this point, so when he has you upside down with his legs over your arms, you should know what's coming next, and how to take it correctly.

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List of people who's neck has been broken by Styles with the Styles Clash.

 

Frankie Kazarian (NWA:TNA, July 2 2003)

Steve Stone (IWA-MS, 2004)

Sterling James Keenan (1PW, March 4th 2006)

Roderick Strong (ROH, February 1st 2014)

Lionheart (PCW, March 1st 2014)

Yoshi Tatsu (NJPW, November 8th 2014)

 

 

 

I listened to a interview about this idea about his finisher with comments from Aj. The thing is(from what I have heard from interviews and just observed) the problem is usually with the person taking it just not taking it right. Most of the situations it's the guy not putting his head/neck in the right position(don't remember the exact way to describe it). Roderick took a rough one when AJ came back and he even said it was on him for just not taking it properly. A lot of moves are a two way street like that. The performer can do it perfectly but the guy taking it can do one thing and horrible botch it. Not to say it's all yoshi's fault per say, just we gotta remember to look at both sides.

 

Also for how long AJ as been doing the move, it's not like he has this huge list of people he has injured with the move so I wouldn't jump on the "Make him stop doing it" train.

 

 

I completely agree. People bring up him hurting three guys in a year but he's hit the move thousands of times and the move has only been botched a handful of times. Personally though I think if there is anyone at fault it's the guy taking the move. I'd like to think that AJ is a pretty well known guy at this point, so when he has you upside down with his legs over your arms, you should know what's coming next, and how to take it correctly.

 

 

I mean, the list up there is still pretty scary. If he was working in the WWE and injured 3 guys in a year with it he'd be immediately fired probably and deemed an unsafe worker. I do understand that he's been doing it forever, but something still needs to be done to ensure you're not breaking people's necks which could potentially end a career

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Necks get broken because when guys prepare to take the Styles Clash, instincts kick in and they tuck their head in like they do for most other moves. Thus, the move connects on the neck as opposed to landing flat, causing injuries. Whether AJ stops doing the move or not is on him, he could certainly do something else in place or it like the Calf Killer or the Spinal Tap, but it's his call.

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People need to start taking the bump right, swing your head back. Don't tuck your chin in.

Obviously no one could disagree with that, I'm just stating it goes against everything they were ever taught in training as well as basically every other bump they've taken in their career. Not exactly second nature to tilt your head back as a pro wrestler.

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Styles is in the big league right now, he's the IWGP Heavyweight champion. The *Censored* are they talking about.

 

Anyways, I heard Tatsu messed up pretty badly but I didn't see their match. He's done it so much, I doubt it's on Styles tbh. But if it is, he needs to be more careful.

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It's wrestling and shit happens. John Cena could cripple someone while doing the attitude adjustment. It's not as if these people don't understand the risk involved in being professional wrestlers. That said, I'm sure the blame falls squarely on Tastu. The only way to suffer a broken neck with that move is to have your head in the wrong place.

 

Get well soon, Yoshi.

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i hope he gets all the rest and treatment to mend his his injurys and iam sure styles regrets the accident but why are people saying aj styles should retire the finisher

 

 

back in my younger days of watching wrestling i saw a man getting tossed off a high cage and fall trough the anounce table his tooth sticking trough his lip

 

yet we still have those kind of matches today and that moment is a wrestling classic ( in most minds anyway ) and i know what happend to yatsu was not a angle or anything

 

but point is if fans get pissed off when wwe bans moves ( piledriver for ex ) why should aj stop using the styles clash also i dont really know them but iam sure yatsu knows its wasent on purpose

 

 

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Styles is in the big league right now, he's the IWGP Heavyweight champion. The *Censored* are they talking about.

 

Anyways, I heard Tatsu messed up pretty badly but I didn't see their match. He's done it so much, I doubt it's on Styles tbh. But if it is, he needs to be more careful.

 

He was IWGP Heavyweight Champion but he lost the belt in October.

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