10 Wrestling Botches That Could Have Been MUCH Worse

[@SsnakeBite]

God, that Lita bump is genuinely wince-inducing to watch. The fact she was unharmed is downright miraculous.

[@zanethind3533]

For sure

[@lazeruslaz5724]

which is impressive since she nearly kicked herself in the back of the head

[@Masterofxtreme93]

might as well re-name this video "10 times a wrestler somehow DIDN'T break their freaking neck"

[@zanethind3533]

True

[@DJVexillum]

It's damn true

[@mickeymckibbles613]

"Benoit had some neck issues" That's putting it lightly

[@TomF1180]

😂😂😅😢

[@shezziesbaby]

The Giant/Big Show botch vs Nash was proper scary. Fair play to Nash for not wanting to perform it

[@DFTLewis]

Goldberg could have his own list

[@DFTLewis]

@@BryRobinson you look emotional mate

[@woobgamer5210]

@@BryRobinson Goldberg literally has injured people. he broke Glacier's leg in WCW

[@daltonpinell6251]

DFTLewis is an odd way to spell Bret Hart XD

[@zanethind3533]

Lmao 😂

[@bury_the_elite65294]

@@daltonpinell6251 if Goldberg did have his own list, "that kick" (to Bret's head) would surely be at or near the top.

[@Yessica.haircut]

MadCap moss landing on his head will always live rent free in my mind

[@zanethind3533]

Same

[@zanethind3533]

And Lesnar's Shooting Star

[@corbjones2738]

Genuinely borders on NSFL territory

[@zanethind3533]

It's still a damn shame how Shinsuke's push got squandered by a mistake even though Cena vouched for Shinsuke

[@RAINPlaysGamesOfficial]

That number 14 rumble curse is so real even for him winning in that spot

[@scottmccurdy6493]

Vince always punishing people for petty reasons, while conveniently ignoring far worse things if they were committed by one of his favorites.

[@zanethind3533]

Say what you want about Kevin Nash's in ring ability but major respect to him for telling Big Show that the Jackknife Powerbomb spot wouldn't work and Big Show would get injured

[@TomF1180]

If show Curled up and held his upper body level it would've worked

[@flippineck2825]

Lita getting injured from a simple move after almost snapping her spine but feeling fine a month earlier is etched in my brain. How is she alive?

[@SkunkApe407]

Because she's an absolute unit. I trained with her, back when she was just Amy, at Terry and Dory Funk Jr's school, back in the late 90's and early 2000's. She's tougher than a $2 steak, that girl. I've always admired her for that.

[@zanethind3533]

Damn I didn't even know she had that injury

[@RiderLeangle2]

I know this is one where there wasn't even a thought of injury and immediately you could laugh at it, but Titus tripping at Greatest Royal Rumble definitely deserves a mention, we got a hilarious moment but it's terrifying if you think about if he fell just slightly different and just fell full speed and hit the metal ring support head first

[@Altern8One]

Yeah, that would've been a really nasty look (even though that was only shown on replay at first)

[@TomF1180]

Dude! I completely thought he faceplant into the steel supports!

[@Kingofb0ngstyle]

Super staged moment. Don't see why it's funny, just clumsy Titus

[@TeToGo_Tv]

Despite being nearly 20 years later, using a thumbnail, reference and footage of Benoit for clicks, especially on a video saying how lucky it was that blow to the head didn't really cause some damage never seems to get old, especially for cultaholic wrestling - good job guys

[@jerrysmith7705]

Everyone always talks about the botched jackhammer, no one ever talks about the botched tombstone that bounced goldbergs head off the mat a minute earlier. Those guys share equal blame for that mess.

[@awkc63]

I actually liked the A-Train gimmick, it was an idea I had a couple years ago

[@kalterglanz3632]

Benoit on "could have been worse" List. Balls

[@jaysondoak6184]

Moss and Cena were the first two that came to mind. That neither of them were hurt was a miracle.

[@zanethind3533]

True

[@zanethind3533]

Same with Lesnar's Shooting Star

[@Mcnonswagger]

Sabu watching at 3:44 “oh how the turn tables”

[@maxgore9750]

Cesaro and sheamus' final match of 7

[@FFA441]

Cena vs shinsuke only being on that random smackdown and not being a mania moment that happened wont ever sit right with me

[@mjdf122]

I’ll be waiting patiently on Every 1994 WCW PPV Ranked From WORST to BEST

[@TheHappyWhale]

Thought for sure that botched spanish fly by Austin Theory and Carmelo Hayes from earlier this year would be on here. No idea how they were both fine after that.

[@DKCG0113]

I woildve thought Cesaro's suicide dive on Sheamus woild be on here.

[@zachenglish309]

When A-Train drops Benoit on his head, you can see part of the leg to the chair literally breaks from the impact of benoits head

[@njbrock22]

the Andretti & Roddy botch happened recently in Dragon Gate too with Flamita vs Dragon Kid, almost the exact same bump to... Kid got extremely lucky he didn't fracture anything too

[@clarencegutsy7309]

Legend says any time Chris Jericho looks to be close to suffering a terrible fate, Curt Hennig will manifest to kick him to safety.

[@SheriffOutlaw]

THAT Thumbnail for this video, i saw that match...I will NEVER forget seeing that

[@fyrewatermelons]

11:17 YOOOOO. My hometown got named dropped

[@CommenjouerFr-gplus]

Well you had to mention Roddy boy so....ADAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!! ADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAM!!!!

[@pathkeepers]

4:59 if it's the prequel it shouldn't be called neck stronger. That's a sequel name. If anything it should be called "neck strong: origins" or something.

[@mjdf122]

I’ll be waiting patiently on Professional Wrestling Timeline Years 1980s-2000s

[@ApocalypticRenegade]

I know AEW has tried to scrub all footage of the moment but how was the Anna Jay and Willow Nightingale powerbomb on the concrete not on here? One of the nastiest looking things I have ever seen in wrestling and a miracle she didn't destroy her back and neck.

[@TomF1180]

More like DeCAP MOSS, amirite?😂

[@WillHendersonTX]

2 botches that could have been much worse involving poor Kairi Sane that didn't make this list: 1. Raw in the spring of 2020: Kairi almost had her neck severely broken after Nia Jax messed up and botched a Buckle Bomb on the turnbuckle, Kairi's screaming "I'm not set, i'm not set" followed by Kairi screaming before it happened made it look worse, luckly for Kairi she avoided serious injury. 2. September 2, 2024 edition of WWE Raw: during the Unholy Union/Sky Pirates WWE Tag Team championship #1 Contenders match, while Bianca Belair and Jade Cargill were outside the ring to watch the match, Kairi attempted to hit a insane elbow onto Isla Dawn and Isla put Belair in the way of Kairi (that was the intended part), but when Kairi hit the move, she overshot it and collided with the announcers table hitting it smack in the face, the worst would had been a potential of a lost eye or a more serious face injury, broken neck or concussion, but lucky for Kairi she only suffered a gash that required only 5-6 stiches to close the wound and got blood in her eye but was able to get the blood out. i hope y'all do a sequel called "10 More Wrestling Botches That Could Have Been MUCH Worse" and have one or both of those Kairi botches on there.

[@DJboutit2]

Goldberg said in a interview he had a minor concussion before he even walked out to the ring. What he use to was hit is head pretty good on doors and walls this time it was a little to hard.

[@grimreaper1542]

Joey Mercury’s face exploding could have been his head exploding

[@ThorstenBaum-z8q]

Das Chris Benoit ding ist, leider,noch schlimmer ausgegangen als aussah.

[@zanethind3533]

Yeah 😢

[@Faust1und2]

Definitiv

[@DKCG0113]

3:50 and rugburn.

[@lilpoetat]

Thanks 🎉

[@PastTense82]

I don't know how I feel about the fact that I watched all of these live... lol

[@mitchenigma1698]

The Giant and Nash jacknife wasn't Nashs fault. Hogan threw "hot water" on Paul and when he went to post and push himself up his hand slipped on Nashs pants.

[@DarkPredator79]

Surprised we didnt see taker at Mania 25 on this list

[@davidparkes7741]

Why would Moss have to apologize?? He was the one who almost got seriously injured.

[@GryHen-pg9iy]

Much respect for adding Chris Benoit!

[@zanethind3533]

Undertaker vs Goldberg at Supershowdown 2019 will always be the worst match I've ever seen. Also that match should've never happened. The fact that we got that instead of Sting vs Undertaker at Wrestlemania years later is unbelievable

[@OG_Stemcell]

I was at the Cena Nak match. I remember thinking his neck was broken

[@raymondbermudez555]

Undertaker vs Shawn Michaels

[@nickmontoya3001]

Dream match, Goldberg vs Stone cold. Dream match, Sting vs Undertaker. Goldberg vs Undertaker......sure, I guess.....more nightmare

[@SkunkApe407]

I wouldn't expect any heat on Drew, for the Madcap incident. I wouldn't expect any on Moss, either. The Alabama Slam is just one of those moves. Ask anyone who wrestled Hardcore Holly. I've taken that bump plenty of times, and it doesn't take much for ut to go wrong. I really don't like the move, and I'm not the only one.

[@marvelsProtege]

7:08 I believe he was done I don't know if they would have sold him they would have just killed him by not using him

[@PappiNibletLibet]

What about "10 biggest what ifs in wrestling"

[@NolanGreenBean]

I'm glad that the Roderick Strong botch didn't have Rick Knox as the referee.

[@braydenschmelzer4314]

Hate to say it. Probably would have been a better consequence if Benoit DID get hurt instead of going on and doing what he did....

[@TheRaven_200]

Mable.

[@TomF1180]

So....every single botch thats ever happened?

[@OptimusProvost]

If Brock hit the shooting star press that would’ve been the best mania moment of all time

[@scottmccurdy6493]

Nah. It would've been a great one, but far from the best.

[@Kingofb0ngstyle]

A Train/Albert has many botches, he sandbags a lot.

[@TheThird1977]

Why do 99% of people who mention / cover the Undertaker vs. Goldberg match fail to mention 'Taker almost breaking Bill's neck on a botched Tombstone piledriver?

[@SkunkApe407]

Because that only happened AFTER Bill gave Mark a concussion. It was Bill's insistence on headbutting doors that triggered all of it.

[@TheThird1977]

@SkunkApe407 The tombstone was well before the messed up Jackhammer. Undertaker hadn't taken any real offense at that point.

[@SkunkApe407]

@@TheThird1977 um, no?

[@TheThird1977]

@@SkunkApe407 Go watch the match again. Tombstone is at 3hrs 42mins into the show. Jackhammer is around 2mins later. If anything, the double-whammy of the ringpost and the shoot Tombstone rocked Goldberg.

[@animechef4331]

The neck issues comment… bruh.

[@wereallthinkingit9389]

If you're just gonna blur out images of the botches, why bother showing them at all or better yet, why cover the subject matter

[@nielsen295]

I was live for the cena Botch. I had to play it off because my kids were with me, but i was very concerned for cena

[@Brownie314]

Just show the botches bruh, intro n commentary not even necessary

[@MeltzersStammer]

Um, well, y',know the botches happened because, the the, matches didn't happen at the Tokyo dome.

[@MP-in4or]

I think it is insane that they don't consider these wrestlers employees, but contractors. Therefore, having to avoid offering them anything but a pay for service contract. They should have to pay for them to have health insurance, help them with retirement, lodging on the road, and so forth. While this company makes a billion, these wrestlers are screwed if they get hurt.

[@Yoooitskeegan]

Hell, i broke my toe nearest to the pinkie toe and its the size of my big toe almost because of ring steps