Literally any bump with May Young with the Dudley Boyz was pretty terrifying. Even though she asked do it and she was legit upper 70s. You just held your breath. May Young took em like a champ though.
Can't imagine what any of her grandkids and great-grandkids thought about it. Imagine being a pro-wrestling fan in the Attitude Era and you're watching your grandma in some of the craziest segments in history. Fabulous Moolah deserves those spots as shoot spots.
Ty all. I suggest What Culture do a top 10 bumps for May Young. Obviously we know what #1 is but she took some hard bumps in the Attitude Era. Angleslammed, vecera slammed, pump handle slammed by test, pedigreed, 3D, Bronco buster, list goes on. War May Young
Years ago in Turin, Italy, the top rope broke while Undertaker was speeding for his clothesline against heidenreich, he hit his head on the mat really hard, we could hear It from the stands. They worked a 5 minutes lock on the ground while he was recovering
The worst one I remember is when Kevin Nash went to power bomb the Giant in WCW and basically couldn't handle the weight, lost his grip and dropped the Giant on his head and the back of his neck.
It's not just botches by wrestlers, it's also the ring itself because in 1997 I think it was when Mick Foley was in WCW, he got tangled in the ropes and 60% of his ear ripped off his head, gotta be careful with literally everything
@@rossclutterbuck1060 Both, actually. There was a complaint that the ropes were too loose earlier in the night, so they were greatly tightened. And WCW used wrapped elevator cables instead of standard ring ropes.
Yeah, it was nasty, but they said "that you DON'T remember." I think everybody remembers that bump. They used to show that clip in their "please don't try this at home" warning at the beginning of all their DVDs.
This was a very good video. I always appreciate it when you guys post new material that you don’t talk about every week. Maybe do something like top 10 Sunday Night Heat matches at some point.
Worst I ever saw was the botched top rope bulldog buff bagwell gave Rick Steiner in wcw. You know things are bad when everyone stops immediately and checks on their opponent
I'd never looked at the footage of the rope break in slow motion before, but it actually breaks just before Lashley touches it. Just Drew hitting the ropes alone was enough to do it, and Lashley had no chance to see it break and try to react or get any sort of slowdown from hitting the rope.
Cant remember it perfectly so im not here to try having a verbal fight, u might be right but wasnt it more madcap fault ? Anyway, glad he's still doing fine
Yeah Sean Waltman a.k.a. X-Pac did state in an interview that he tore his scrotum after a bad landing when he attempted to hit the Broncobuster. I think it's why he started using the X-Factor Facebuster as his finisher. Simon, you're not gonna mention one of the greatest and nicest wrestlers ever in Big E getting dunked on his head via a Belly-to-Belly Suplex from Ridge Holland?
@@Ballzon30fps Probably an accident for sure, he was pry a little gassed and couldn't get the full momentum into the rotation of the flip for the suplex, but WWE should definitely reconsider that kind of bump with Heavyweights of equal size like Big E and Ridge Holland.
I am surprised that you don't see wrestlers checking out the ring , the ropes and everything more often . Story line or not. It definitely would make sense to the viewers at home and the people In the audience
Back in ECW, JT Smith attempted a suicide dive. His feet got caught on the middle rope and he went straight down. When he came back up, he had a softball sized lump on the right side of forehead
I think it was the very first Goldberg vs Lesnar match where Brock went for his top rope gainer thing, and landed directly on his forehead. Still gives me the chills.
Was against Angle, that. Shooting star press and he didn’t rotate enough, so he landed on his head. Angle moved out of the way thankfully so he had more room to fall, otherwise he could’ve cranked his neck falling on Kurt.
LOL no wonder no one ever knows what I'm talking about. Thanks for clearing that up. And thank God it was Angle; probably would've gone worse with Goldberg, oaf that he is.
I know Brock Lesner is a beast...but even I know that you shouldn't pick up a person as big as yourself, spin them around and "fall down". That's scary.
The Bobby Lashley bump was going to be bad regardless, was talking about wrapping your arm around it, but when it broke, there was no top rope to go around. It snapped, he hit a split second after and flipped over. I wish I could recall who said this "Wrestling is fake in that the winner is picked before the match starts, but you can't fake falling." These men and women put their bodies on the line for our entertainment so I will never criticize them for bumps gone wrong.
Worst bump I ever saw (granted, in retrospect videos) was Sid Vicious / Justice snapping his leg. It's the most hideous thing I've ever seen in a wrestling ring (short of death)
At this point in time, I am convinced that the Wrestling Gods themselves and The Wizard in The Sky there in the clouds have conspired together against and upon Ridge Holland's legs.
Recently that time that Drew Macintyre dropped Moss on his head comes to mind, but we all saw that and remember it. One time I can't remember what show it was on, but Lita jumped out of the ring and the way she landed almost looked like her back was going to snap. I think it was in a match with Trish Stratus, but I can't remember. All I remember is that the bump looked painful.
That was the RAW Main event back in December 2004 when she and Trish were battling it out for the title. I think a lot of us thought she had broken her neck again for a second on that dive.
has Jeff Jarret ever received a proper bronco buster? i remember he did the same to Rey Misterio jr when he was part of the filthy animals on WCW Nitro
@@cotton9087 I think it was the one on Smackdown against Booker T where he crashed into the commentary table...although the one you mentioned was an insane bump on its own.
Benoit has had too many bad suicide dives because of how fast and intense they were that they overshot the mark by a wide margin There's the one against Booker T where Benoit crashed into the announce table There was another against Randy Orton where Benoit's feet hit the ropes, changing the trajectory with his chin smashing the top of the barricade And let's not go over the one against Jericho where he dove head first into a chair
Yeah Sean Waltman tore his turd cutter not his groin. In a previous comment it was stated as his (Waltman's) exact words were "I tore my asshole". So yeah it was an asshole injury not a groin. Same city wrong, part of town. Never the less, either injury can't be very pleasant.
What about the first smackdown when they had a burried Alive match with big show taker. Mick Foley and a few others....Foley tool a bump where he was thrown across the stage and landed on the dirt and bouncer into the grave....but that's not the bump I'm talking bout....triple h had a sledge hammer...and took a full over head swing and hit big show in the back of the head. Full force .....and big show fell down. I swore he was dead.
Literally any bump with May Young with the Dudley Boyz was pretty terrifying. Even though she asked do it and she was legit upper 70s. You just held your breath. May Young took em like a champ though.
Mae Young and the ladies of that era are legit, double-hard bitches.
Still, scared the hell out of me too!
Underrated comment
She was a pimp, couldn’t care less for the abuse she put others through
Can't imagine what any of her grandkids and great-grandkids thought about it.
Imagine being a pro-wrestling fan in the Attitude Era and you're watching your grandma in some of the craziest segments in history.
Fabulous Moolah deserves those spots as shoot spots.
Ty all. I suggest What Culture do a top 10 bumps for May Young. Obviously we know what #1 is but she took some hard bumps in the Attitude Era. Angleslammed, vecera slammed, pump handle slammed by test, pedigreed, 3D, Bronco buster, list goes on. War May Young
Years ago in Turin, Italy, the top rope broke while Undertaker was speeding for his clothesline against heidenreich, he hit his head on the mat really hard, we could hear It from the stands. They worked a 5 minutes lock on the ground while he was recovering
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Dude, what about the Madcap Moss reverse Alabama Slam bump where he was thrown straight onto his head like a dart. That was nasty.
everyone still remembers that
in sean waltmans words "i tore my asshole". the dude almost died too.
This is my number one worst wrestling accident. It makes me wince just thinking about it!
@@chloeirnes It's up there with Sid's compound leg fracture in terms of gruesome.
The worst one I remember is when Kevin Nash went to power bomb the Giant in WCW and basically couldn't handle the weight, lost his grip and dropped the Giant on his head and the back of his neck.
In fairness to Nash, he actually didn’t want to do it because he noticed The Giant had piled on some weight
the Brock Lesnar shooting star press against Kurt angle comes to mind
Most iconic botch ever?
I don't think anybody's really forgotten about that one. It's one of those that comes up whenever people talk about famous botches.
@@tyrone5969 Definitely top ten.
Exactly. It comes to mind. Who forgot? Also watch it in slow mo. He didn’t hit his head
It's not just botches by wrestlers, it's also the ring itself because in 1997 I think it was when Mick Foley was in WCW, he got tangled in the ropes and 60% of his ear ripped off his head, gotta be careful with literally everything
Mick had done the hangman spot many times before, but on that occasion, somebody had tightened the ropes a little too much.
1993
@@DFloyd84 wasn't it because WCW used actual ropes and Mick had always done the spot with cable ropes?
@@rossclutterbuck1060 Both, actually. There was a complaint that the ropes were too loose earlier in the night, so they were greatly tightened. And WCW used wrapped elevator cables instead of standard ring ropes.
@@cameronbigley7483 ah yes, I remember now. Cheers!
Scariest wrestling move/spot?
Sid's Big Boot from the top
eurgh yuk yuk yuk
@@JoeCool90 FEEL YA!!! It makes me dry heave just thinking about it lol
Thank you for not showing that Sid Vicious top-rope thrust-kick leg-snapped-in-half spot.
Getting ill just thinking about it.
That wasn't a bump...
Vince McMahon bump when Chyna tossed him over in the corporate Royal Rumble in 99 on Raw
Neck Whiplash
Yeah that looked horrible. Stone cold music was blasting, Chyna celebrating in the ring but I was like ddaammnnnn check on Vince!!
I had a friend who was in a match with a rope break...5 years later, he still cant look at the video of the video without turning his head away.
Bob Holly getting a massive gash on his back because of a table against RVD on ECW.
Yeah, it was nasty, but they said "that you DON'T remember." I think everybody remembers that bump. They used to show that clip in their "please don't try this at home" warning at the beginning of all their DVDs.
This was a very good video. I always appreciate it when you guys post new material that you don’t talk about every week. Maybe do something like top 10 Sunday Night Heat matches at some point.
if the #1 spot isn't DDP vs Christian I'll be quite unhappy
I know heat had some good matches but the show was so D level most people don't want to admit they watched the show
Samoa Joe's jumping dropkick to Sting in the crowd... Crazy
The one where he split his balls on the rail? That was nuts.....
Worst I ever saw was the botched top rope bulldog buff bagwell gave Rick Steiner in wcw. You know things are bad when everyone stops immediately and checks on their opponent
The Matt Hardy one was terrifying..
I can't believe you didn't include when Cesaro landed on his neck when he too took a dive and over rotated before SPLAT...
We’ve only forgotten the Sammy bump because there’s so many it’s hard to keep track of.
At this point, why are we not talking about how dangerous Ridge holland is in the ring? Gargano and Big E dropping them both on their heads? Come on
because 2 mistakes years apart does not make you a dangerous wrestler.
I'd never looked at the footage of the rope break in slow motion before, but it actually breaks just before Lashley touches it. Just Drew hitting the ropes alone was enough to do it, and Lashley had no chance to see it break and try to react or get any sort of slowdown from hitting the rope.
The Jacey Jane bump was legit scary to see
Japanese deathmatches bumps makes these look like papercuts
Was there a certain bump taken by Hardcore Holly during a tables match? I vividly remember a long wide cut being shown on Holly’s back.
There probably has since he's wrestled for 20+ years but I can't remember
It was during his time in the WWE ECW
Yup.
If I remember rightly, Sammy didn't just hit Matt with the chair, he actually threw the chair at him with a lot of force behind it.
The thumbnail looks, brutal man. 😂😂
I was expecting to see Drew dropping Madcap on his head on this list. I'm still amazed he came away unscathed.
Cant remember it perfectly so im not here to try having a verbal fight, u might be right but wasnt it more madcap fault ?
Anyway, glad he's still doing fine
Yeah Sean Waltman a.k.a. X-Pac did state in an interview that he tore his scrotum after a bad landing when he attempted to hit the Broncobuster. I think it's why he started using the X-Factor Facebuster as his finisher. Simon, you're not gonna mention one of the greatest and nicest wrestlers ever in Big E getting dunked on his head via a Belly-to-Belly Suplex from Ridge Holland?
No one has forgotten about e tho we miss him hope he heals up soon I don't think ridge meant to do it tho
@@Ballzon30fps Probably an accident for sure, he was pry a little gassed and couldn't get the full momentum into the rotation of the flip for the suplex, but WWE should definitely reconsider that kind of bump with Heavyweights of equal size like Big E and Ridge Holland.
He always used the x factor as his finisher. The bronco buster was usually the set up for the x factor
1998 WCW souled out. The Giant getting jackknifed by Kevin Nash. I thought he was dead.
The Undertaker hit Big Show with a gimmick bat. A real wood bat doesn't break like that.
And if it was real he’d be dead I swear
A real regulation MLB bat is two to three pounds of SOLID WOOD.
Surely the bat Taker used on Big Show was gimmicked? How/WHY would it not be gimmicked? O.o
Paul Wight is crazy, he for mayweather to break his nose remember lol
I am surprised that you don't see wrestlers checking out the ring , the ropes and everything more often . Story line or not. It definitely would make sense to the viewers at home and the people In the audience
I always thought the foot was a great counter to the bronco buster for a second and then I'd wince at the realisation of what happened.
Back in ECW, JT Smith attempted a suicide dive. His feet got caught on the middle rope and he went straight down. When he came back up, he had a softball sized lump on the right side of forehead
Necorbutcher and Samoa Joe did the same powerslam spot but on the floor. Ouchies
That whole match was a total ouch fest. The t-bone suplex from the apron to the floor too...yeesh!
@@tidesofsulfurcb 4 reals
I think it was the very first Goldberg vs Lesnar match where Brock went for his top rope gainer thing, and landed directly on his forehead. Still gives me the chills.
Was against Angle, that. Shooting star press and he didn’t rotate enough, so he landed on his head. Angle moved out of the way thankfully so he had more room to fall, otherwise he could’ve cranked his neck falling on Kurt.
LOL no wonder no one ever knows what I'm talking about. Thanks for clearing that up. And thank God it was Angle; probably would've gone worse with Goldberg, oaf that he is.
I know Brock Lesner is a beast...but even I know that you shouldn't pick up a person as big as yourself, spin them around and "fall down". That's scary.
Simon being every wrestler's dad is kinda cute lol..
What about the recent one when Drew hit Madcap with an Alabama Slam - that looked brutal
It might be a false memory, but I think Billy Gunn countered the Bronco Buster in the same way.
I feel like Ridge Holland makes too many mistakes though ngl
Uh; Mr. Miller? It wasn’t X-PAC’s groin that he broke…
Test's big boot on K-Kwik.
Thanks Simon great video!!
I never forgot about the Red Velvet bump. She was the star of Botchamania for many months at one point.
When Kevin Nash Power Bomb The Giant
When Spike Dudley was suppose to get thrown through a table on the outside from inside of the ring and his head clipped the edge of the table
The Bobby Lashley bump was going to be bad regardless, was talking about wrapping your arm around it, but when it broke, there was no top rope to go around. It snapped, he hit a split second after and flipped over. I wish I could recall who said this "Wrestling is fake in that the winner is picked before the match starts, but you can't fake falling." These men and women put their bodies on the line for our entertainment so I will never criticize them for bumps gone wrong.
Kinda feel bad for Ridge Holland, dude has some bad luck
The bat was clearly made of balsa wood
Lol the image of this video was posted below a January 6 committee live meeting video. I thought it worked in both titles 🤷♂️🤣
Triple H gave Sean Michaels a real pedigree that was brutal.
The x-pac bump in the thumbnail gave me a primordial pain as a man. Cause you know that was agony-
Worst bump I ever saw (granted, in retrospect videos) was Sid Vicious / Justice snapping his leg. It's the most hideous thing I've ever seen in a wrestling ring (short of death)
Tommy Dreamer taking a Great Khali chokebomb on concrete during December to Dismember for the smallest PPV crowd in WWE history's.
I'm still surprised WWE/NXT didn't edit that Gargano bump out. That was scary as hell.
"Right in the Testicles." - Simon Miller, 9th June 2022.
BTW, Simon, you are my absolute hero.
How is the chair shot JBL gave to Eddie Guerrero in 2004 not on this list? It split Eddies head wide open and damn near killed him!
Johnny gargano on his head looks so bad
Undertakers story was a promo of him wanting to become American badass gimmick
Cesaro vs Sheamus where cesaro dive and landed on his head
There was a chair shot to Lesnar by Jeff Hardy around Lesnar’s debut that was brutal
on the baseball bat thing with taker and bigshow, im pretty sure that was a balsa wood bat.
anytime the announce table didn’t collapse during a pedigree or a piledriver, Jeff Jarrett hitting women with a guitar
Enzo when he tried a baseball slide under the bottom rope, missed and knocked himself out
That A Train bump was scary 😟
Terrifying bumps and no Spike Dudley? Spike can make a top 10 of his own easily lol.
At this point in time, I am convinced that the Wrestling Gods themselves and The Wizard in The Sky there in the clouds have conspired together against and upon Ridge Holland's legs.
All it takes is a vertical suplex to let the marks know: THIS SHIT AINT FAKE!!!
Recently that time that Drew Macintyre dropped Moss on his head comes to mind, but we all saw that and remember it. One time I can't remember what show it was on, but Lita jumped out of the ring and the way she landed almost looked like her back was going to snap. I think it was in a match with Trish Stratus, but I can't remember. All I remember is that the bump looked painful.
Yeah, I just found it. It was on Raw with Trish.
That was the RAW Main event back in December 2004 when she and Trish were battling it out for the title. I think a lot of us thought she had broken her neck again for a second on that dive.
Yeah, that's the one.
Why was #1 for this countdown something we remember?
9:03 Nope. It was way worse than that............
Taker was a real life bully no joke
That f 5 on the a train so graphic
Misleading title as these are all extremely memorable!
everyone need to watch Undertaker smacking Big Show with a baseball bat just for Paul Bearer's laugh.
I seem to remember a certain James E. Cornette who swore by steel cables instead of ropes.
the undertaker bat was comically hollow
What about Hardcore Holly getting powerbombed by Lesnar after becoming dead weight in the move and getting a broken neck.
The bat taker hit show with was likely gimmicked
Ellsworth, styles clash...😱
has Jeff Jarret ever received a proper bronco buster? i remember he did the same to Rey Misterio jr when he was part of the filthy animals on WCW Nitro
you forgot about the bump the blue blazer took
we'd know the end of the Undertaker's story if not for Jericho
Spike vs la resistance through a table over the ropes but they misjudged and only his head and neck hit the table
You say to read the articles with your eyes,how else are we to read them?With our tongues?
That's 2 for Ridge he is dangerous
Ridge holland almost broke garganos neck and then broke big E
Xpac actually broke his b-hole doing the bronco buster.
i missed the fail suicide dive from Chris Benoit
Was that against Jericho when Jericho hit him with a chair mid dive then he went head first into the black security wall lol
@@cotton9087 I think it was the one on Smackdown against Booker T where he crashed into the commentary table...although the one you mentioned was an insane bump on its own.
Benoit has had too many bad suicide dives because of how fast and intense they were that they overshot the mark by a wide margin
There's the one against Booker T where Benoit crashed into the announce table
There was another against Randy Orton where Benoit's feet hit the ropes, changing the trajectory with his chin smashing the top of the barricade
And let's not go over the one against Jericho where he dove head first into a chair
Bobby whiplashley 😆 🤣 😂
Sid’s top rope boot
Sp Ridge Holland was a broken neck waiting to happen!
Yeah Sean Waltman tore his turd cutter not his groin. In a previous comment it was stated as his (Waltman's) exact words were "I tore my asshole". So yeah it was an asshole injury not a groin. Same city wrong, part of town. Never the less, either injury can't be very pleasant.
Anything with Mick Foley...
I remember guevera and matt hardy real heat
What about the first smackdown when they had a burried Alive match with big show taker. Mick Foley and a few others....Foley tool a bump where he was thrown across the stage and landed on the dirt and bouncer into the grave....but that's not the bump I'm talking bout....triple h had a sledge hammer...and took a full over head swing and hit big show in the back of the head. Full force .....and big show fell down. I swore he was dead.
ridge holland under rotates on a move, hurts gargano. man, hope he doesnt do that again.......
Hey Simon when's the next episode of retro ups and downs
#2 was worse, Xpac tore his A**HOLE. He had to go to hospital from blood loss.