History GroinAttack / ProWrestling

{{Groin Attack}}s in Main/ProWrestling.

{{Groin Attack}}s is ProWrestling.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Understatement}} That looks painful.]] P.S. [[Wrestling/ZackRyder I lost a broski for a hoeski]].]]

** Surprisingly, Flair doesn't seem to cut down on the groin shots when he's a {{Face}}.

* Wrestling/{{Chyna}} used the low blow continually during her Heel run. It never seemed to get her disqualified. In a match with Road Dogg at the 1999 King Of The Ring, Road Dogg anticipated Chyna would use a low blow on him, and wore a protective cup so it would hurt her instead of incapacitating him.

** Wrestling/JeffHardy's double leg drop is {{Handwave}}d as not actually being a ''strike''. The more technically minded may excuse it as primarily targeting the sternum.

* One of Bret Hart's FiveMovesOfDoom was a headbutt to the opponents stomach. The fact that other bits of his body weight landed on the groin of his opponent was a bonus.
* Many Wrestling/{{ECW}} valets go for a low blow against men when interfering in matches, but Wrestling/LunaVachon once took this to the [[{{Pun}} extreme]] by grabbing Wrestling/StevieRichards by the testicles and ''tossing him across the ring''.
* {{Wrestling/Raven}} would often start off No Disqualification matches with a blatant low-blow, playing right into his EvilGenius gimmick.

* During the May 15, 2000 episode of ''Wrestling/{{WCW}} [[Wrestling/WCWMondayNitro Monday Nitro]]'', Wrestling/VinceRusso forced Wrestling/MissElizabeth to participate in a steel cage match against Wrestling/{{Madusa}}. Fortunately for Elizabeth, Wrestling/LexLuger [[BigDamnHeroes arrived]] and was able to take care of Madusa via the [[SignatureMove Torture Rack]]. Russo then attempted to strike down Luger with a low blow uppercut punch, but this proved to be ineffective as Luger soon revealed that he had a groin-protecting cup inside his pants, taking it off so that he could taunt Russo with it. Upon seeing that his desperate move had failed, Russo attempted to escape from the steel cage, but Elizabeth, who was standing in front of the steel cage's door, quickly threw a fast right kick towards Russo's family jewels and made him fall down to the wrestling mat in a state of extreme pain and agony. Adding insult to injury, Elizabeth then took Luger's cup and began to shove it down Russo's mouth in an attempt to humiliate him even further. Most Elizabeth fans consider this a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome for Elizabeth, as she finally got her revenge against Russo, who had pretty much been a complete {{Jerkass}} to her in the past few months. Of course, before this particular ballbust, an earlier one occurred during the May 3, 2000 episode of ''WCW Thunder'', in which Elizabeth used a right back mule kick to strike Russo in the family jewels as he attempted to use her as a HumanShield against Wrestling/RicFlair during their confrontation after the "Tables Match" between Luger and The Wall.

* When Mike Mondo became a complete {{Jerkass}} by [[WouldHitAGirl hitting a woman]], Wrestling/MickieJames [[BigDamnHeroes came to confront him and save the woman]]. After he gave some insults to the female wrestler, he finally paid for it when Mickie James kicked him HARD in the nuts. And to [[DoubleStandardAbuseFemaleOnMale humiliate him further]], the woman whom he hit before [[TheDogBitesBack returned to pin him while his groin was in excruciating pain]]. Then Mickie James counted for that woman until three, thus allowing the woman to [[LaserGuidedKarma "defeat" Mondo humiliatingly]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4w_piYSm9gI Watch it here]].

* Some wrestlers accomplish this with a bowling ball. Wrestling/AlSnow would often do this in Hardcore matches. Wrestling/JohnCena [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPH_qddGm0Q used this technique]] on Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio.

* To counter, or compliment Wrestling/JoeyRyan's "boobs plex", depending on how they're doing at the time, Wrestling/CandiceLeRae employs a "balls plex", a suplex lifted from the groin. Candice also once poured thumbtacks down a man's pants.

* After losing at Wrestlemania XXX to Wrestling/BrockLesnar, Wrestling/TheUndertaker of all people resorted to using low blows in any future events where the two fought. After a number of encounters Lesnar used his own low blow on Undertaker at ''Hell in a Cell 2015''.

* In the main event of ''[[Wrestling/RingOfHonor Supercard Of Honor X]]'', night one, [[Wrestling/TheYoungBucks Matt Jackson]] stood over a reeling Alex Shelley and told him to [[Wrestling/DGenerationX suck it]], to which Shelley responded with a testicular claw. Nick jumped in to save his brother with a double ax handle but instead ran into testicular claw from Shelley's other hand, leading to {{c|rowdchant}}hants of "Wrestling/JoeyRyan".
* At ''Wrestlemania 34'', Wrestling/AJStyles defeated Wrestling/ShinsukeNakamura. Irate, Shinsuke made a FaceHeelTurn and punched Styles in the nuts. In the weeks afterwards, their feud mostly consists of Shinsuke sneaking up on Styles and punching him in the nuts (sometimes multiple times). Their rematch at ''Backlash 2018'' was a No Disqualification Match, so the two repeatedly hit each other with low blows, which caused the match to become a draw when they were both too incapacitated by pain to continue. At ''Money in the Bank 2018'', Styles fittingly ended their feud and defeated Nakamura by punting him in the nuts. Nakamura then got into a feud in Wrestling/JeffHardy and started punching him in the nuts, indicating he's not going to stop anytime soon.
** On the other end, this particular title run for AJ finally ended in 2018 when Wrestling/DanielBryan took advantage of a ref bump to kick Styles in the balls before hitting his running knee finisher to win the title.

* Another rare female-on-female example occured at Wrestling/WrestleMania 21 when Wrestling/ChristyHemme delivered a pussy kick to Wrestling/TrishStratus.

* In ''WrestleMania 38'', in the match between [[https://www.tokyvideo.com/video/sami-zayn-vs-johnny-knoxville-full-match Sami Zayn and Johnny Knoxville]], the latter gets hit in the crotch by a bowling ball thrown by the former.

* John Cena was on the receiving end of a low blow from Austin Theory at ''Wrestlemania 39''. Since the referee was momentarily knocked out while this happened, Theory was able to get away with it and defeat Cena.

* During her time in WCW, Nancy "Woman" Benoit was known for getting physically involved in the matches of both Ric Flair and Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen, in which she would either slap or kick the opponent when given the chance and opportunity to do so. At ''WCW Bash at the Beach 1996'' during the WCW United States Championship match between Ric Flair and Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, Woman proved that she could be quite lethal when it came to groin kicks as well, for halfway through the match itself, Woman had quickly entered into the ring while Flair had the referee distracted and as a dazed Konnan had instantly turned around in her direction, Woman had immediately kicked him in the groin, making him fall down to the wrestling mat in a complete state of extreme pain while Woman had swiftly left the ring from the referee's own sight. Surprisingly, the fans had actually ''cheered'' when this had happened, considering the fact that Konnan was portrayed as the face while Flair was seen as the heel during their match, so either the fans wanted Flair to win that night or there were a couple of ballbust masochists from within the audience (it probably helped that Woman had wore a white slit dress that had showed off her [[ShesGotLegs fine legs]]). Aside from that, Woman had also done this to [[Wrestling/BillDeMott "The Laughing Man" Hugh Morrus]] as she had kicked him in the family jewels during the "No Disqualification Match" between Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and Wrestling/JeffJarrett at ''WCW Starrcade 1996''.

* Another rare female-on-female example occured at Wrestling/WrestleMania 21 when Wrestling/ChristyHemme delivered a pussy kick to Wrestling/TrishStratus. Trish would return the favor later in the match.

* Another rare female-on-female example occured at Wrestling/WrestleMania 21 when Christy Hemme delivered a pussy kick to Wrestling/TrishStratus.

[[caption-width-right:350:[[{{Understatement}} That looks painful.]]]]

->"HIS GROOOOIN! HIS GROOOOOIN! ''HIS GROOOOOOOIN!''"

** Wrestling/JeffHardy's double leg drop is {{Handwave}}d as not actually being a ''strike''.

* The Wrestling/{{Toryumon}}\Wrestling/DragonGate [[PowerStable stable]] Crazy Max had a move that went like this. Two of the C-Max members would each grab an opponent's ankles and hold him upside down and spread eagle. TARU (who was a trained martial artist outside the ring and used lots of martial arts kicks in his matches) would then deliver an axe kick to the groin.

** Sugar Dunkerton pulling his opponent's arm between their legs after catching it in a wrist lock. The referee will usually allow the ''first'' groin strike in this manner, anyway.

* During her time in WCW, Nancy "Woman" Benoit was known for getting physically involved in the matches of both Ric Flair and Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen, in which she would either slap or kick the opponent when given the chance and opportunity to do so. At ''WCW Bash at the Beach 1996'' during the WCW United States Championship match between Ric Flair and Wrestling/{{Konnan}}, Woman proved that she could be quite lethal when it came to groin kicks as well, for halfway through the match itself, Woman had quickly entered into the ring while Flair had the referee distracted and as a dazed Konnan had instantly turned around in her direction, Woman had immediately kicked him in the groin, making him fall down to the wrestling mat in a complete state of extreme pain while Woman had swiftly left the ring from the referee's own sight. Surprisingly, the fans had actually ''cheered'' when this had happened, considering the fact that Konnan was portrayed as the face while Flair was seen as the heel during their match, so either the fans wanted Flair to win that night or there were a couple of ballbust masochists from within the audience (it probably helped that Woman had wore a white slit dress that had showed off her [[ShesGotLegs fine legs]]). Aside from that, Woman had also done this to [[Wrestling/HughMorrus "The Laughing Man" Hugh Morrus]] as she had kicked him in the family jewels during the "No Disqualification Match" between Wrestling/ChrisBenoit and Wrestling/JeffJarrett at ''WCW Starrcade 1996''.