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WWE Hall Of Famer Demands Signficant Piledriver Punishment

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After Kevin Owens sent Randy Orton to the hospital, one WWE Hall of Famer called for a massive punishment to be introduced in the company.

Kevin Owens has been on the warpath since attacking Cody Rhodes in the parking lot following Bad Blood, but things have since escalated to a whole new level.

At Crown Jewel, Owens was meant to face Randy Orton after also attacking the veteran, but the match never got started. KO attacked Orton during his entrance, battering him with a chair. But Orton fought back and even hit Adam Pearce with an RKO before finally being left beaten by Owens after a huge elbow drop.

Fast forward to the November 8th episode of SmackDown, and it was Orton who was determined to get revenge on Owens. This sparked yet another brawl between the pair, but this time it came to an end with Owens hitting Orton with a Piledriver — the move has been banned in WWE for the best part of two decades.

Randy Orton was taken out of the arena on a stretcher and transported to the hospital. WWE later shared an update on Orton’s condition, via a short statement on social media. The post noted that Orton has been diagnosed with “cervical cord neurapraxia.” The injury can occur after “cervical hyperextension or hyperflexion trauma.”

Mark Henry Wants Piledriver Punishment In WWE

Speaking on Busted Open Radio, WWE Hall of Famer Mark Henry has made the case for WWE introducing a hefty punishment for anyone using the banned move, but only to add to the weight of the piledriver so it does not become just another move:

I think that they should say, if you do it, it’s gonna be a $50,000 fine. When I was a kid, the DDT was the thing because… You remember playing wrestling? ‘I’m Jake The Snake, I got the DDT’ – ‘No no no, you can’t have it, I got it’. Because everybody knew, what’s gonna happen when you take the Jake The Snake DDT? It’s over.

I don’t wanna see the Piledriver become, again, like a DDT or a Superkick. You know what I wanna see? I wanna see somebody say, ‘Hey, I got 50 grand burning a hole in my pocket. (I’m gonna) Piledrive your ass’.

h/t WrestleTalk