Worst Legitimate Injuries You've Seen?

[DarksideEric]

We've seen Bret dislocate his finger and pop it back into place during a match.

We've seen Joey Mercury get his face smashed open by a ladder and rushed to the emergency room.

And we've seen Randy Orton break his collarbone when thrown over the top rope.

Which injury, that you've seen, was the most cringe worthy for you?

For me, it's Sid's leg break after the second turnbuckle jumping big boot against Scott Stiener. Boke his leg in two.

 

[Kris Benwa]

That's my pick for worst legitimate injury I've seen as far as wrestling is concerned. His leg breaking is the kind of think where it's so gross I chuckle a little bit (am I the only person who does that?). A runner up would be when I believe Candace Michelle fell off the turnbuckle to the outside and break her collarbone that was pretty sick as well. Just for shits and giggles the worst legitimate injury I've ever seen in any sport has to be when Kevin Ware of the Louisville Cardinals college basketball team jumped up in the air and when he came down his leg snapped and his bone was coming out of his leg. I got a good chuckle out of that because it so grotesque.

 

[Slash-LN]

The Sid one would have been my pick. It just looked so painful.

This one was pretty bad too. The wrestler is Hayabusa. This took place in Japan and almost ended his career. This video contains both the real time move and then they slow it down.
Chris Jericho wrote about this in his first book. He and Haybusa didn't get along and Jericho said something along the lines of it being ironic that he got injured using one of Jericho's moves.

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[Hollywood Naitch]

It has to be Sid's leg break, that was a sickening injury, the type of leg break that he is so bad he is lucky to be able to walk at all. Absolutely disgusting.

I know Hayabusa is paralysed after an accident in a match, but I'm not sure if the clip posted by Slash is that move. However, the video that is posted is a horrific botch, made even worse by watching in slow motion. His neck nearly snaps!!

Sabu's neck break was brutal too. The way he lands on the top of his head makes me wince every time I see it. Also, who can forget the barbed wire match against Terry Funk where Sabu's bicep is ripped apart and he tapes it back together and CONTINUES THE MATCH?! That is dedication, and also complete insanity. I have seen the scar he has on his arm from that injury, it's awful.

Mick Foley losing part of his ear is another injury that has to be put forward here, as well as some of the terrible burns he received in his death matches in Japan. Foley put his body through so much for the fans over the years, it's no wonder he has such mobility problems these days.

More recently, you could nominate BJ Whitmer's career-ending injury at the hands of Mike Bennett's apron Piledriver that temporarily paralysed Whitmer. He is lucky to be able to move after an injury like that.

Lastly, I am going to suggest the injury suffered by Alan "Kwee-wee" Funk on the indie circuit, where Sonny Siaki botched a split-legged moonsault, coming down knee first across Funk's face, shattering his eye socket, jaw, nose and breaking his orbital bone and eardrum. When Funk got backstage his eyeball was hanging out of it's socket. He is still permanently deaf in one ear but has otherwise recovered.

 

[Mustang Sally]

The one that stands out for me was a non-injury that I thought might have resulted in a broken neck when I saw it.

Lita was wrestling someone (was it Trish Stratus?) when she went flying out of the ring head-first and landed awkwardly, with her chest hitting the ground first and her neck extended at a bad angle, her chin scraping the padded area outside the ring. It was the first time I ever felt petrified upon seeing something like this. I figured she wouldn't get up, but she did.

Of course this occurred after she returned from a broken neck suffered in the filming of a TV show. It reminded me that doctors said the repair they effected made her neck stronger than it was before the surgery.....and if that was so, it might have saved her from disaster during her match with Trish.

 

[Poop Master Flex]

There were some good ones mentioned definitely but for my taste the worst was at an indy event and for the life of me I can't remember the participants so I will do my best to describe it.

Anyway's a 19-20 year old high flyer with limited training attempted a moonsault from the top rope to the floor, his opponent was supposed to catch him but wasn't able to and the kid went crashing to the floor head first. The reason I bring up this one is because the kid actually died from a botch in the ring. I saw it on wrestlinggonewrong.com and found out about how it ended because Paul Bearer did a interview or blog on it after it happened. I can't remember the names of the competitors but I remember the visual and it was by far the worst injury I've ever seen. Now that I think of it most of the worst injuries I've seen are from indy wrestlers doing ridiculously dangerous things in front of a few hundred people at most, just senseless and completely unnecessary.

For mainstream wrestling, either Joey Mercury's face laceration or Sid breaking his leg were the worst legitimate injuries I've ever recall seeing. There were career ender's like Hyabusa and Rick Rude that were painful to watch but from a visual standpoint Mercury and Sid take the cake for me.

 

[Hollywood Naitch]

For mainstream wrestling, either Joey Mercury's face laceration or Sid breaking his leg were the worst legitimate injuries I've ever recall seeing. There were career ender's like Hyabusa and Rick Rude that were painful to watch but from a visual standpoint Mercury and Sid take the cake for me.

Joey Mercury's face being destroyed was INSANE! Within a split second there is a huge puddle of blood on the floor and it's literally spraying out of his face, with his eyes swollen shut, horrendous! With the amount of stunts we see in ladder matches, with them often used as weapons, it's surprising we don't see more injuries like that

 

[Matty~!]

Without being morbid I would think the likes of Gary Albright and Mitsuharu Misawa dying as a result of wrestling moves triggering heart attacks would be pretty high on the list.

 

[TheGrimReaper]

I laugh everytime I see Sid's leg break, It takes me a couple of minutes to calm down afterwards... I mean, sure, it's sick, but when you think about it, Sid botched a lot of stuff, and he was in a match with fellow botcher Scott Steiner... I just think it's a bit of irony. (Perhaps not, oh well)

The most grotesque injuries for me? Foley. During his match with Taker at King of the Ring 1998. I cringed, but I also sympathized with the man for continuing to fight even though he was pretty much on the verge of never walking again. First dislocating his shoulder, then having a chair knock his tooth out into his lip, and rendering him unconscious, and finally the thumbtacks... man, It still shocks me every time I see it.

The Joey Mercury one was also fairly brutal in it's own respect too. I would hate to have that happen to me.

A famous one I think is Steve Austin vs. Owen Hart @ SummerSlam 1997. I think it absolutely tarnished Austin's legacy for what it was going to be, and I know it really shortened his career by a few years. I don't blame Owen at all though, it was just a bad move given at the bad time.

 

[supernatural1981]

I remember seeing Vader's eyeball pop out in a match with Stan Hanson. It might not of been the worst ever but to carry on the match proves just how tough he was.

How about Wade Barretts elbow dislocation a couple of years back? and the only other one that has not been mentioned was Buff Bagwell's neck break from a Rick Steiner bulldog

 

[LascoX]

Sid's leg tops the list for the ones I watched happen live as it happened, Joey Mercury was also bad. Honorable mention goes out to Little Natch/ Charles Robinson when Randy Savage collapsed his lung with an elbow drop. That was the worst I had personally seen someone who was mainly a ref get messed up in the course of a match. Another honorable mention goes out to Shane McMahon for getting dropped on his head by Kurt Angle when he didn't go threw the glass the first time. Granted he didn't suffer a serious injury , luckily, but it was a cringe worthy moment at the time and I would be surprised if he didn't get a minor concussion from that event. It gave me a lot of respect for Shane to get up and get tossed threw the glass on the second try. I know the last two are minor in comparison to many of the incidents in the ring but I was only going with the mishaps I watched as it happened and had made me cringe.

 

[Wolf Pac]

How about a recent one, John Cena's tricep tear. It's no Sid leg injury, but that giant ball of fluid was pretty gross, man.

And even though he was fine the next month, Randy Orton seperating his right shoulder at Over The Limit 2010 and finishing his match with Edge with a dead arm, was just hard to watch.

Could say the same for Triple H's two quad injuries.

However, nothing tops Sid, Hayabusa and Joey Mercury's injuries. They were fuckin nasty.