Shocking wrestling moments – In its most basic form, a professional wrestling match is a scripted contest in which two or more wrestlers try to hurt each other in creative ways with the winner being predetermined before the match. The last three seconds of the match is decided by those in power in a wrestling promotion, while everything else in that match is determined by the wrestlers involved (and sometimes an agent who wants to help them tell a specific story inside the ring.)
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The point is, a wrestling match is supposed to be a controlled environment because both parties know what’s supposed to take place. But what if they decide to do something that’s so high risk that they could cripple themselves or worse in doing so? Worse yet, what’s the fallout (sometimes literally) when something happens during a wrestling match that isn’t supposed to?
Wrestling history is filled with terrible botches and unscripted moments that have shaken the wrestling world to its core. Many of the moments and matches you’ll see listed in this article demonstrate the purest definition of wrestling ‘craziness,’ in that they serve to test the limits of human endurance and willingness to sacrifice oneself to entertain the audience.
One thing is for certain; if you’re reading this and are thinking about possibly pursuing a career as a wrestler, you may want to reflect on your decision before diving headfirst into a world filled with botched maneuvers, terrible facial disfigurements, and in one case, literal hellfire…
20. Shane McMahon’s Love Of Self-Torture
Though he was never as much of a trained wrestler as other big WWE superstars, Shane McMahon made up for his lack of formal training and technical skill with a willingness to put his body through absolute hell to entertain the audience.
Over the years, Shane has put himself through such considerable pain (both staged and real) that it’s no wonder that he still gets such a huge reaction from the audience. Fans remember the crazy things he did for them, so they show their appreciation with monstrous ovations.
His accolade of ridiculous stunts includes: Falling 40 feet down after getting hit with a cane at SummerSlam 1999, getting Chokeslammed by the Undertaker from the ring into the announcer’s table, getting Suplexed through a glass stage set twice (the first time the glass didn’t break, so he fell headfirst onto the concrete stage), and of course, diving off of the Cell and onto the announcer’s table atWrestleMania XXXII.
All of these moments showed just how far Shane was willing to go to entertain the audience, and many of them were so crazy that fans still talk about them long after Shane has moved on from in-ring competition. But given how brutal some of these contests were, it’s amazing that Shane actually left the ring in one piece after sacrificing his body to such a degree.
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