Tom Cruise Performs the “High Crotch”

August 1, 2006 by Wendy Boswell

This is rich - apparently, Tom Cruise was best known in high school for a wrestling move known as the high crotch:

TOM Cruise played dirty when he wrestled for Glen Ridge HS in New Jersey. "Even then everybody knew who he was, but it wasn’t because anyone thought he’d be a movie star," says a former grappler at rival Seton Hall Prep. Cruise was particularly adept at a hold called the "High Crotch," which involves an arm between the legs. "The pain it caused was excruciating to say the least," the wrestler told Steppin’ Out magazine’s Chaunce Hayden. A rep for Cruise declined comment.

Here’s what the high crotch move actually looks like. Personally, I’m thinking that the little leotards that these guys are sporting look more painful than an arm up the crotch.