4. Steve Austin Breaks His Neck
Putting two performers with the capability of Steve Austin and Owen Hart together is about as safe as you could possibly get in terms of professional wrestling. Of course anything that can go wrong will go wrong at some point, as was proven in their match up for the Intercontinental Title at SummerSlam in 1997. The story goes that Austin thought Hart was going to deliver a tombstone piledriver but Owen had a different plan performing a inverted piledriver that spiked Austin straight down on his head. Steve knew something was terribly wrong right from the get go as he had lost feeling from his neck down following the impact and was afraid that he may never even walk again. Luckily for everyone, the future mega star started gaining strength in his appendages again and would make sporadic appearances, mainly trying to keep the title on Owen so that he would be the one to take it from him when recovered.
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