Dangerous matches in wrestling: UFC President Dana White caused an uproar on Twitter when he proclaimed pro wrestling to be “fake” right before the Ronda Rouseyvs Bethe Correia fight. Several wrestlers from WWE, TNA, and Ring of Honor took offense to the remarks, many of whom live with chronic pain or deteriorating health because of their efforts to entertain in professional wrestling.
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Over the years, professional wrestling has made numerous attempts at upping the danger ante at the expense of performer’s health. Men have fallen from insane heights without safety nets, lacerated their backs with actual razor wire, and jabbed medical syringes through their opponent’s cheeks for paydays averaging about $200 – less, if you factor in things like stitches, staph infections, and surgery.
WWE Hall of Famer Mick Foley tells a captivating story about the rush of emotions and pains that were involved with winning the 1995 IWA King of the Deathmatch Tournament. At this point in his career, Mick wasn’t sure he was going to be a great WWE superstar and so he was doing the thing that made him famous: pushing his body to the physical limits for entertainment value and to gain a psychological reaction out of his audience.
We will look at some of the world’s most dangerous pro wrestling match stipulations and salute the brave men and women who rolled around in thumbtacks, ate some steel chair shots and bled profusely for the wrestling industry.
Warning: the following list contains extremely graphic material. Discretion advised.
10. Scaffold Match
A product of the old territory days of pro wrestling, the Scaffold Match places two (or more) men 20 feet above the ring on an elevated platform. The winner of the match is determined when their opponent has been thrown off the scaffold and onto the ring below.
The earliest known example of a scaffold match took place in Louisville, Kentucky at a 1970s Memphis Wrestling show between Don Greene and Jerry Jarrett for a $5,000 prize purse. After his fall, both the ringside announcer and the referee remarked that Don Green’s arm appeared to be broken.
The most infamous scaffold match took place in Los Angeles, CA for XPW on February 23, 2002 between New Jack and Vic Grimes. As retaliation for “The Danbury Fall Incident“, New Jack zapped Vic Grimes with a concealed stun gun and shoved his unresponsive opponent off a 40-foot tall scaffold. New Jack admitted on video that he tried to legitimately murder Vic Grimes by aiming for the arena floor, not the wrestling ring.
Luck saved Vic Grimes’ life that night.
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