Gallery 507 Twist the Lock Ankle Locks are easy to apply but very effective if you want to hear your opponent scream for mercy.  This stud simply plants his boot behind the opponent's knee and pries down his foot. This wrestler grabs the opponent's boot, reaches under with the other hand and grips his own wrist, and starts twisting.  He leans in to watch the opponent suffer and to whisper some trash-talk in his ear. The Barred Toe-Hold is still a fairly easy way to numb the opponent's leg.  He draped his leg over the other man's hamstring and bends the dude's foot against his thigh. Pallo gets a bit more creative with his Crossover Hold.  He locks one foot behind the othe ankle, then bends the poor opponent into a Boston Crab position. Even though Villano is outside the ropes, this Mexican wrestler in white trunks refuses to release his patented Ankle Twister. Check out this grappler in the red trunks and boots, twisting the other man's foot around in circles.  He's rotated that foot three or four times already!  If he lets go, the other man's leg will unwind like a twisted rubber band! This beefy grappler is the victim of a very punishing Ankle Lock.  He is in so much pain, he can't even reach over and punch the attacker in the face!  It's like he is paralyzed by the agony of this hold. The opponent probably won't submit to a simple Boot Twist like this.  Still it's fun to stand over a man in domination and slowly twist his foot around until he is forced to slap the mat and beg for mercy. The blond hunk with the tattoos gives the fans a nice view of his opponent's tight speedo with this one-legged Ankle Lock that splits the opponent's legs apart.   These Ankle Locks are so dangerous, please do not try this at home! This beefy stud cringes in agony as his cheating opponent wraps his ankle around the bottom rope.  This is totally illegal, but the cheater will not listed to the ref and break the hold! Even in modern times, some dirty wrestlers use the ropes to illegally torture the opponent's leg.  The stud in red boots has his leg bent around the middle rope while someone at ringside humiliates him by grabbing his ass. This hot drawing of an Ankle Lock in the center of the ring really captures the intense suffering of the victim, the animal rage of the attacker, and the shock of the ref at witnessing such a brutal hold. This young cutie has been beaten and punished by his evil masked opponent all match.  He finally gains control by twisting the masked man's foot out of the socket for a bit of revenge. One of the earliest Pretty-Boy Tag Teams was the High Flyers, Greg Gagne and Jim Brunzell.  Here they show off their belts in matching white speedos and boots, while the writer ponders if they are the greatest Tag Team ever. It makes sense that Gagne is kneeling down before Brunzell because Brunzell was clearly the dominant wrestler on this team, who had to please the boss, Vern Gagne, by carrying his son to greatness. Gagne dominates beefy Angelo Mosca with an Ankle Lock, preventing the big hairy animal from making a tag. Soon Gagne will tag in Brunzell, who will probably have to play the jobber so Gagne will look like a winner for his daddy. Ken Shamrock won plenty of Ultimate Fighting Championships and WWE pro matches with painful ankle submission holds.  Judging from the great ass busting out the tight trunks on his opponent, he is now torturing Billy Gunn. The master of the Ankle Lock has got to be Kurt Angle.  He has won numerous matches by snapping his opponent's ankles in his simple hold, even keeping the pressure on after they tap out. No one can seem to resist his rather simple foot bend that leaves all opponents crying for mercy.  Somehow you would expect a more complex finishing hold from an Olympic Champion with decades of amateur experience. Look at this freak and his animal obsession with twisting and destroying his opponent's ankle.  He howls like a beast as he wrenches that foot into a punishing position! Here is Angle using his Ankle Lock to force numerous big tough WWE stars to scream like little bitches and call him "Master."