Women's wrestling in Japan is notorious for being as hard-hitting, intense and physical as men's wrestling. Yet in 1998, he almost died during his Hell in a Cell match against The Undertaker.

Grimes was such an underrated wrestler, especially for his huge size. Despite all of the contributions that Misawa gave to the business, it would be a relatively minor bump that would be his last. His death was ruled as the result of cardiac arrest due to a cervical stroke involving three fractured vertebrae. Powerbomb The … In the early days of Triple H’s career, his pedigree finisher was one of the scariest moves he could have ever performed. He is also known for The Great Muta gimmick which has been emulated by a number of wrestlers. Perro Aguayo Jr.'s name may not sound too familiar to wrestling fans. It looked like Foley was dead. His nephew currently wrestles in the CMLL promotion as Oro, Jr. New Jack has since admitted that he purposely screwed up the move so that Vic Grimes would miss most of the tables and freefall to the mat. The entire point of professional wrestling is that the two opponents aren't actually supposed to hurt each other when they perform their moves.

It's unfortunate that this list comes to him, yet Hart's passing may be the most notable wrestling-related death of all time.

He is best known for his appearances with Extreme Championship Wrestling, Xtreme Pro Wrestling and the World Wrestling … Unique lists featuring pop culture, entertainment and crazy facts. Supreme Mick Foley certainly had a hellish time during the Hell in a Cell match between him and The Undertaker at King of the Ring in 1998. Yet Foley was knocked unconscious with the bump. The next reunion show the following year would also briefly lead to the revival of the ECW brand. Thus in many occasions while fans feel a surge of anxiety over the outcome of a match, the wrestlers already know who is going to emer. This time, New Jack threw Grimes from the scaffold and forced him to miss the tables that had been set up in the ring. Anyone going up against New Jack in the ECW had to be aware that they were in for some rough stuff. One slight degree of improper movement could have cost the wrestlers subject to these close calls their lives. They are some wrestlers that no one even cares about that make very little money but risk it all each and every day just to become the best in the world one day. As the match was about to finish, Brown messed up a powerbomb finisher, causing Droz to land on his head thus fracturing two neck vertebrae which left him a quadriplegic. He was able to make a full recovery but had he not noticed the injury or didn't take it seriously, he would have bled to death that same night. The Undertaker threw him from the top of the cage and he landed on the announcers’ table. Victimizer Considering the fact that he weighed over 400 pounds, he was lucky to have survived the impact on his head and neck. Match: Scaffold Match – New Jack vs. Vic Grimes, Injury: Minor Injuries but he was inches from falling onto the concrete head first. Fractured three vertebrae after being thrown off the side of the ring onto the concrete below. While many people scoff at companies like the WWE for releasing a product that is "fake" and scripted: the sad reality is that professional wrestlers will injure each other or themselves by accident, as the potential to harm someone still exists when performing a move. It turned out that wasting a childhood playing video games, reading comic books, and watching movies could be used for finding employment, regardless of what any career advisor might tell you. And most of the times, you probably did not even realize something was wrong because these guys battle through it and finish the match. Some people believe this happened due to the dropkick from Mysterio that sent Aguayo on the ropes and its resulting whiplash. The referees had to quickly cover for Angle and count the move as a pin, despite the fact that Puder's shoulders weren't touching the ground. Wrestling promotions are serious when they say, "Don't try this at home." The quadriceps are the muscle that protects your femur bone and covers the front of your thighs down to your knees. Triple H tore his left quad so badly that he almost had to retire from the sport. As for Sabu, he would recover from this injury. These miscalculations often come with injuries with some of them proving to be quite serious. This stunt at ECW "Living Dangerously" is known as the Danbury Fall. She later died in the hospital from various brain trauma injuries on top of that one. CM Punk mysteriously vanished from all WWE programming at the start of 2014. Hart, performing as The Blue Blazer, was supposed to be lowered to the ring. However, the most tragic cases are the ones which resulted in paralysis and even worse, death. Flying Corkscrew Somersault Senton It was during a tag-team match against New Jack and Mustafa Saed (better known as The Gangstas) that Kulas asked New Jack to cut open his forehead.

In the weeks prior to her death, she had forgotten some of the finishes for her matches, leading some to think that something may be wrong. Steve Bradley One of the few times that it is considered acceptable for a wrestler to legitimately strike his opponent is if that person badly screws up a move in a way that could have caused a serious injury. However, after losing footing on the second rope, he slipped and cracked two vertebrae in the process.

Drozdov, better known as Droz, was in a match against D'Lo Brown. In the 1950s, women's wrestling was beginning to grow in popularity. Kado's death was only the second wrestling-related death to occur in Japan, despite the country's notorious hard-hitting style. Able to hit springboards, and slingshots, with the huge frame that he has is beyond impressive." At one point, the two were so injured and tangled up in barbed wire that they couldn’t get themselves back in the ring and needed some assistance from the ref. There's a reason why matches seldom go that long. These days, cardiovascular testing is a part of the WWE's Talent Wellness Program, therefore making deaths like these much less common. In fact some wrestlers would have met their demise if it wasn’t for a stroke of good luck. After his death, multiple lucha libre organizations in Mexico paid tribute to the wrestler.

After the first match, she complained of a headache. Vic Grimes screwed up the move and dropped New Jack onto the concrete... and then fell on top of him. Hart however, tragically fell to his death at Over the Edge in 1999 and Austin was among those who paid tribute to him. These wrestlers will jump from 40 feet high onto a stack of tables to turn a match into something legendary. One of the most infamous jobber matches of all time involved Perry Saturn wrestling a newcomer named Mike Bell. Total Nonstop Action, TNA, had a chance at becoming a competitor to the WWE, but the promotion never amounted to a lick of beans. She was rushed to the hospital, where she died a few hours later. Vic Grimes was born on January 3, 1963 in Bronx, New York City, New York, USA as Victor Grimes. The 2005 ECW One Night Stand reunion show was a big success for WWE. Pre planning is something that is in the nature of wrestling. The Undertaker waited until their big match to get revenge, where he purposely hit Shane and knocked him loopy as payback for his previous carelessness. Luckily, he's still with us today, but that was a genuinely horrifying match to watch. She realized that new talent needed to be groomed to replace her in her retirement. One of the revelations that CM Punk made during the Colt Cabana concerned the fellow WWE wrestler known as Ryback. He was occasionally used in promos for upcoming events, but he never actually appeared at them. All rights reserved. I believed it and thought the dude was psycho. However, he missed and clipped the lower part of his back crushing a disc causing him to begin a long series of back injuries that followed him around the rest of his career. Things got worse for after The Undertaker chokeslammed him atop the cage and one of the panels gave way causing Foley to fall through and crash into the ring. A graduate of Edge Hill University in the UK, Scott started out as a film student before moving into journalism. When professional wrestlers punch each other, they combine it with stomping on the ground in order to make a loud noise. I remember reading as a kid that he did it on purpose and was trying to kill him(and that he also tased him). Del Rio has since admitted doing this in interviews, as he was angry at Sin Cara's lack of professional pride. One of the wrestlers couldn't make it, so a teenager named Eric Kulas went backstage and managed to take the spot on the roster. There have been times when a professional wrestler has used the facade of a match to hide the fact that they are actually out to harm their opponent. Scott specializes in gaming and has loved the medium since the early ‘90s when his first console was a ZX Spectrum that used to take 40 minutes to load a game from a tape cassette player to a black and white TV set. The two would face off in a scaffold match again two years later, with Jack pushing Grimes off of a scaffold, resulting in Grimes' ankle being dislocated. But there's barely anyone that is strong enough to deliver a Jackknife Powerbomb to a wrestler that weighs more than 500 pounds.