A curb stomp, also called curbing, curb checking, curb painting, or making someone bite the curb, is a form of assault or attempted murder in which a victim's jaw is forcefully placed on a curb and then stomped from behind, causing severe injuries and death.[1]
In the film American History X (1998), white power skinhead Derek Vinyard murders Lawrence, a black burglar who had tried to steal his truck, by curb-stomping him.[9][10] The method of killing for both Marinus Schöberl and Randall Townsend appear to have been inspired by this scene.[11][12]
In The Sopranos episode "The Second Coming" (2007), New Jersey mafia boss Tony Soprano curb-stomps New York mobster Salvatore "Coco" Cogliano on the edge of a bar for making lewd comments to his daughter.[13]
WWE professional wrestler Seth Rollins used a curb stomp as his finishing move. Rollins said that he stopped using the move as "from a PR standpoint ... it was too perceptually violent ... I never hurt anyone with it. It was just something we didn't want kids trying on each other".[14] On the January 15, 2018, edition of Monday Night Raw, Rollins brought the move back, now referred to simply as a "stomp".[15]