AJ Styles breaks Yoshi Tatsu's neck with Styles Clash

[Str8Shooter]

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Ouch!!

He broke a couple bones in his neck. Not sure when he'll be able to return. That move always makes me nervous when he does it.

[SlightlyJames]

Gasp

[PorkChop]

Why did Yoshi tuck his chin in like that?

[prophet]

Happened with Lionheart last year too. It's a dangerous move tbh, nothing wrong with how Styles does it but if the person taking it flinches or tucks their head in as a reflex (like with Tatsu) it can go horribly wrong. Never nice to see someone get injured though.

[Daz]

I think the most shocking thing about this is that Yoshi then went and worked a match a couple of weeks after.

[HardcoreLegend]

Never saw McCool botch it...

[Hanley!]

Never saw McCool botch it...

It's lucky nobody was injured with her doing it. She could barely hold some people's legs in position, I used to cringe every time she was about to execute the move. Though she didn't use it that often anyway. I think she gave it up before too long.

Styles hasn't botched the move, it's the person on the receiving end failing to take it the right way. I'm pretty sure that everyone who has been injured with the Styles Clash has taken responsibility afterwards. But he's executed the move far more than McCool over the years, so there's more likely to be injuries.

Why did Yoshi tuck his chin in like that?

It's just instinct. That's the default protective position for a lot of moves, so often instinct kicks in and they tuck their chin forward during the move, when they should be tilting it back.

It's a tricky predicament for Styles. On one hand, he executes the move correctly every time and it looks like a million dollars. And fans really want to see it. So it's easy to make the case for continuing to use the move. But on the other hand, it's injured quite a few people now. Sure, it's not his fault, but at this point maybe continuing to use it is irresponsible.

Maybe it was different in TNA because everyone was so familiar with the move and lots of them had taken it a number of times before. He went for years without injuring anyone with the Clash while in TNA. But since he left it's been far too common an occurrence. I think it's time he retired the move. Unless he faces Daniels again, who could probably take it in his sleep at this point.

[Str8Shooter]

Yeah he might want to think about retiring it and using a different move. Styles has a bunch of cool moves and I'm sure he could come up with something else that worked.

Then again, they do things a little differently in Japan. Maybe this will only add to the "aura" of the move.

[SKS]

Yoshi tweeted that his neck is fine and to put it on botchamania so I don't think he broke it. I think the move should be saved for those that are comfortable with the move and have taken it before. One flinch and your life could be over.

[Racing Guy]

Yeah that's one of those moves that's probably best not attempted.