The sound of Shane McMahon's head thudding on the concrete from that Kurt Angle suplex has lived rent free in my head ever since. Straight up the longest relationship I've ever had
The Jeff Hardy/Edge spear spot could have turned out much worse for Jeff a couple seconds earlier. Jeff’s foot was caught in another ladder and IIRC he said he was about to lose his grip on the belts while trying to get free. A fall from that height with his leg still caught could have been disastrous. Fortunately he got it out and Edge quickly speared him before he lost his grip.
I was at the 2003 Backlash, and you could HEAR the sound of Rey hitting the post and floor throughout the entire arena. Everyone watching in the arena KNEW something went wrong. It looked unsafe. It still sticks with me to this day.
Mick has said in interviews that the fall through the top of the cell was actually way worse than the more famous one through the announce table. The cage was supposed to flex and give way slowly, letting him kind of drift down into the ring for a slightly softer landing, but instead it gave way all at once and he hit the canvas full force.
Every time I watch Shane getting suplexed by Angle and his head makes that thud on the floor, it makes me wince every time. That being said, it’s still an awesome match.
I was lucky enough to see the mankind undertaker hell in a cell in gradeschool on ppv and I had no idea how dangerous it was at the time. It just seemed awesome. Both are legends forever
When I first got the Network that was the first show that I watched because I wanted to see it again because I remember it being awesome. When I watched it again I was like oh my God, we almost watched a guy die when we were 13. Lol
Brock lesnar and big show breaking the ring on Smackdown in June 2003 and big show swinging the stretcher with Rey Mysterio on it was scary Smackdown in 2003 was amazing shane McMahon missing the elbow drop on kane off the titantron @ Unforgiven 2003 was insane
Nothing the WWE can do can even come close to the 1998 King of the Ring Hell In A Cell match. The sheer spectacle of Mick Foley flying through the announcers' table from the top of the cell can never be topped. My friends and I said it 25 years ago when we watched it live on PPV. Anything that that tried to approach it would pale in comparison and anything that tried to surpass it would just look like they ran out of ideas. We called it The Last Attitude Era Match.
Feels a bit in poor taste considering. That wasn't a 'spot' that looked dangerous, it was an entrance that tragically went wrong. It was a terrible accident but I wouldn't class it as a spot like these were.
I'm not trying to stir things up, but I imagine there'll be some people who feel (not that there's anything wrong with it) that number 1 should've been the stunt that killed Owen Hart
In the first segment about fire in matches, they forgot to mention the time the Undertaker was lit ablaze by his own intro pyrotechnics. Although not so much a stunt as a complete screw up but still... Also, I don't think I would trust anyone in the WWE prop department, like, ever. The number of times they have screwed up and used the wrong prop is insane for a professional organization that has people's lives in the balance. I would personally want to check everything before any of these things are used. I'm surprised no one just got their head taken off by a real pipe or sledgehammer at this point.
I know vince said he wouldnt have his wrestlers do anything he wouldnt do but I'm wondering how many of these vince did I mean the wheelchair the stretcher the fire
Randy Orton actually almost set himself on fare the same way Kane did. He said it himself that he was a bit covered in querosene and when he lit the casket he barely got away from the flames that started, otherwise it would have been Viper BBQ
