Olympic wrestler's surprise move floors TV reporter, leaving viewers speechless

A live TV stunt took a terrifying turn when a journalist was thrown across the studio by an Olympic wrestling star.

Fox News reporter Abby Hornacek agreed to take part in a wrestling demonstration on Fox & Friends over the weekend, and ended up on the receiving end of a full suplex courtesy of Kennedy Blades, 22.

The segment was meant to promote an upcoming freestyle wrestling event in Tampa.

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It began with Hornacek admitting she was "so nervous" as they got ready to demonstrate Blades' signature move.

Seconds later, it was game on.

Blades lifted the 31-year-old reporter and flipped her backwards in one quick motion –with spectators gasping as Hornacek appeared to land harder than expected.

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For a moment, it seemed like things could have turned out much worse.

Hornacek was quick to recover, rolling through the fall, then getting back up and laughing it off.

"Amazing! I don't think I can be a wrestler," she said before adding, "The mic pack did not survive, but I did – luckily."

Though she brushed it off, the impact caught up with her later.

When she returned to the show the next day, Hornacek admitted she felt like she'd been "pulverised" by the move.

"It was wild… I felt like I was being hoisted off a skyscraper," she said.

Despite the online reaction, she defended Blades, a rising star in the sport who won silver at the Paris Olympics, saying the wrestler had done nothing wrong.

"I want to set the record straight because I get a lot of comments like, 'Oh, you know, Kennedy put you in danger.' She really didn't, " Hornacek said, also labelling the athlete a "true professional."

Hornacek said she tried to prepare by watching videos of the move ahead of time, but it didn't really help once she was in the air.

"... Even when you watch it in slow-mo, it doesn't make any sense," she said, adding that the pair being a similar height may have made the execution trickier. "I think that's why I was a little close to hitting my head."

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