Here are some classic Leglock images I had accumulated on my Hard Drive that I may as well post for your viewing pleasure.
We start with the good old Hamstring Snapper, where the attacker presses his foot in the victim’s groin, grabs an ankle, then falls backward so the leg is snapped like a catapult firing a projectile. The move appears vicious because the attacker uses his entire body weight for leverage against the trapped leg. The cruelty of the move — the intention to deliberately injure — is reflected in the caption that the magazine’s writer appended to the photo:
“England’s Billy Robinson attempts to snap the hamstring muscle of The Super Destroyer Mark II.”
Something about hearing or saying the word “Leglock” really trips a trigger in my brain. To see two men with their hairy legs entangled in a knot — a sensual image to begin with — and to pair that with words like: “caught in a punishing Leglock” is for me a recipe for excitement and arousal. It just seems so close to sex.
It seemed painful enough for a wrestler to use his own legs to punish his victim’s leg — muscle against muscle, bone against bone. But often the Heel wrestlers would amp up the cruelty by using the metal ringpost or the hard objects at ringside to twist, bend, and break the victim’s leg.
The poor Baby-Face’s agony was proportional to the stiffness of whatever object his leg was being entangled around. The more creative the Heel when it came to torturing that injured leg, the more exciting the match.
