Reacting to wrestling traumas

[@legbacola1414]

I can never unsee Sids leg.

[@crackrat6166]

Facts! That honestly scared me.

[@Thomas-he4wk]

Which half?

[@bdo333]

Nitro's face for me

[@SuperJoesutton]

Sid's floppy leg haunts my nightmares. I was too young to see some shit like that.

[@Psycho-Crusher693]

​@@bdo333That was Mercury

[@LordBlakeWhitehouse]

My wrestling trauma: Selling my Fastlane 2023/press tickets last year because the card was horribly bland. I missed Jey/Cody winning the tag titles and the birth of YEET

[@Mikey_Montana301]

I’ve found LordBlakeWhitehouse in the wild. Your takes are always a highlight 🫡

[@LordBlakeWhitehouse]

@@Mikey_Montana301 Dude it was the first PLE in Indianapolis that I could afford. I’m so mad about it 😂

[@rodrigovialerios]

As a kid I though The Great Khali actually murdered Rey Mysterio on live TV 😢

[@SirSketch4th]

Me too!!! It lives so clearly in my mind.

[@RalphELee]

When we lost Eddie man ! Broke my heart, would cry everytime he was brought up after his passing .

[@kernelofcomedy8789]

Nobody with HBK throwing Jannetty through the window? err... I'm aging myself now.

[@thomasbatta3250]

You mean the coward jannetty dived through the window to escape

[@Justanotherjobber]

Stop lying. That fool Jannetty was so scared he jumped out the window, Michael's tried to save him from a certain death of that 4 foot drop.

[@jennkim3798]

I'm with ya!!

[@isTheMiz]

I believe this video was more about the cringe moments.

[@Jrod42008]

Royal Rumble 1994: I was 5 years old and thought the Undertaker had died and that his spirit had really levitated after the Casket Match

[@princealigorna7468]

The trauma for me was all the vignettes of Taker building that casket. They solidified Taker as my favorite wrestler, but they also scared the shit out of 8 year old me

[@sparkplug405]

On the show when Jerry Lawler had a heart attack on air, on the live feed you could hear what sounded like him snoring on commentary when he passed out. So yeah, I'll never forget hearing that sound.

[@beefy45]

My wrestling trauma is when they stopped selling wwe ice cream bars….

[@crackrat6166]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@beefy45]

@@crackrat6166 😭😭😭😭

[@Colorful-Blackbird]

First thing that came to mind was that seesaw ladder spot where Joey Mercury got his face caved in at Armageddon 2006. I still cringe and tense up whenever I see similar-looking spots in other ladder matches

[@Surv1vor1993]

That’s me any time I see Seth Rollins, or anyone for that matter, go for a sunset flip off the top rope

[@BigDaddyBland87]

Edge retiring. He was my favorite wrestler and I officially walked away from wrestling that day. Obviously I came back later (and so did he). Edge's return was also the most euphoric for me. Still go back to watch it. Gonna go do so right now.

[@jasonjaffeux866]

I have a buddy of mine that bought mania tickets for 2020.. it was going to be his first mania. He had a whole vacation planned in Florida. Poor guy hasn't tried to get tickets since

[@greasy2007]

Understandable ptsd

[@Patsox]

I had floor tickets to what would've been my first Mania in 2020 before it got cancelled. Lot of trauma in those few months for a high school senior

[@ngrosskurth]

Similarly, I had tickets to Summerslam 2020

[@Patsox]

@ngrosskurth that sucks. Who knows how different it would've been, but I think that's where Roman returned/kinda debuted as the Tribal Chief, which would've been cool to say you watched live

[@namo9690]

I had tickets to mania 34, worked at buffalo wild wings. They switched our pay period the week before and didn't tell anyone. Fucked me out of $600 so i couldn't afford the trip down, and couldn't plan around it scarred me for a bit. But being at the first All Out was worth the trauma.

[@greasy2007]

Shitty customer service management. Glad u were able to rectify it in a way

[@Stephen4523-se6yk]

Sting & Booker T losing 2 HHH @ Mania are most definitely 2 of my wrestling traumas! Thanks Friendo!

[@DJMott53]

My wrestling trauma: anytime I see Jon Moxley/Dean Ambrose the image of him getting multiple “vaccines” in his ass to keep him safe from the crowd. No matter how BA they portray him I’m always going to see that.

[@CarnageRulez469]

Light hearted stuff: Undertaker’s streak ending. Also anything involving The Fiend. In reality: The deaths of Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit were the most traumatic things in wrestling that I’ve went through(for different reasons obviously). I remember both of those days vividly(in Benoit’s case, I remember that whole week).

[@deikbeck]

My childhood kayfabe trauma was watching Cactus Jack getting powerbombed by Vader on the exposed concrete and he wandered around and lost his memory from it.

[@MichaelRayzzorStarks]

Trauma timeline: Fingerpoke of doom/"butts in seats" killed WCW for me Mae Young giving birth to a hand killed me watching religiously every week And WCW/ECW being bought and the Invasion storyline completely took me out of wrestling, (with a few exceptions of randomly catching moments like the pipebomb, Vince's "death", Vince getting crushed during the million dollar contest, and Mark Henry's "retirement") until around 2017.

[@davidcox3002]

My most recent one is Cody saying "But not at Wrestlemania" to Roman

[@kadenjcactus9685]

They didn't even go a whole week before pivoting but man those 6 days were the absolute pits

[@flyingferron]

Bray Wyatt losing his first WWE Championship to Randy Orton at Wrestlemania like 2 months later in a terrible match and *again* losing to Orton at Wrestlemania a second time as the Fiend in 2021, before being released because he was "difficult to work with"

[@Imjusttryingtodosomething]

The Dean Ambrose vs Brock Lesnar match at WM 32 killed me.

[@user-sf3ns6ed3g]

The Rock winning the WWE championship in 2013 was one of my favourite wrestling moments from my childhood

[@WrestleJuice]

Punk Traumatic Stress Disorder

[@garganoisgod]

NXT 2.0 , Brock winning MITB, and Max Dupri are my biggest wrestling traumas

[@hadhoda12345]

To me it'll always be when I found out Eddie and later Benoit passed away. Two wrestlers that created an iconic moment at the end of WrestleMania XX, yet that'll never be recognized ever again. The internal conflict I had regarding Benoit made me believe the conspiracy theories at the time that he didn't do it. Now I know that he in fact did and deserves eternal condemnation for it, but the trauma this caused at the beginning never really went away. As for Eddie, it's simply heartbreaking. To this day, I can't watch the 10 bell salute video on KZbin without tearing up. His passing showed me just how much he meant to everybody, no other passing hit me as hard as this one.

[@hadhoda12345]

I just saw the part of the video where you ask for light-hearted traumas 😅😅 oops.

[@rexdudeclone]

Benoit Austin heel turn Nexus burial is the moment Vince was not allowed to book anymore. Ambrose and tv monitor Nxt 2.0

[@AndrewSWTN]

May Young giving birth to a hand. That has never left my mind no matter what I’ve tried. It scarred me as a 13 year old

[@TheSpektrum1989]

Steve's not alone in that NXT 2.0 stuff. granted, it gave us a handful of the stars we've got right now, but I cannot fathom half the ideas that were coming through there. we were perhaps days away from Blake Christian wanting to be Cora Jade's literal superhero, and then I think like Dante Chen got hurt or Blake got released. and considering Blake Christian is now GCW World Champion and competing in the Best of the Super Juniors, that worked out way better for him but also showed how off target Vince was.

[@j.p.walkman9671]

I guess for me the biggest trauma was Benoit's Death. This was a man who I respected, I enjoyed his matches and most of his feuds. In one night he lost all of it. I even had his wrestling figurine, but after that I kept in storage and months later I needed money for bills and I managed to sell it on Ebay. Yeah someone bought it. But it was very traumatic. He killed his wife and one of his sons. It left a really bad taste for wrestlers, the industry, wrestling fans and society. Another traumatic experience for me was Global Warning Tour. My first Wrestling event. I was a hulkamaniac and they advertised Hogan coming to Australia. So I was pumped. Then Hogan was pulled out at the last minute. In storyline Lesnar bear hugged him to death. This worked great Heyman used it for heat on the show. I was really upset and I blamed Lesnar for ruining my dream as a Hulkamaniac. I know stupid. I would get my chance to see Hogan at WM21 though. There's a good thing coming out of that night though. I got a photo with Kurt Angle and he was a great guy despite being a heel at the time, and it turns out Aussies love Kurt Angle and so they made him a babyface that night. Yeah that's kind of how I became a true Kurt Angle fan. I also found out from sources Hogan didn't want to fly to Australia. At first i didn't believe it, but over the years i've come to believe it and I see Hogan for who he really is. I respect him for what he's done for wrestling but these days I am not a hulkamaniac.

[@Stuartirvine91]

Bray Wyatt losing to John Cena at Wrestlemania 30, to this day it still hurts because the Byan Wyatt character downfall can be traced back to this match :(

[@dorksanddragons]

Kayfabe, Kurt Angle getting chokeslammed by the Big Show, off that platform. Seeing Angle with his leg twisted and blood pooling by his head actually scared me as a kid. Non-kayfabe, the fall of Velveteen Dream.

[@OAM_Kingslayer]

I can think of two, kind of three Cody losing at Mania 39 and the Raw after as a whole Carmelo Hayes turning on Trick Williams

[@twkreviews6683]

My wrestling trauma is both of Goldberg's Universal title reigns.

[@ShotInTheDark407]

The most traumatic moment is something that I haven't seen anyone here discuss. But seeing Undertaker pack up Edge at BL 2008. He made him choke on his own blood.

[@napalmblaziken]

Looking back, people overreacted to NXT 2.0. Going back to its developmental roots helped NXT become the rather good show it is now. And gave us a peek at the bright future with Tiffany Stratton, Thea Hail, Roxanne Perez, Bron Breakker, Ciampa's last stand, etc.

[@Jonathannovak1]

My kayfabe trauma was Austin beating Rock again in the cage match the night after Wrestlemania 17. I was 7 years old and devastated after WM and had so much hope Rock would get his revenge and win the title back, but he just got absolutely obliterated by Austin and HHH and then just… disappeared. Similarly, Hogan ramming Rock’s ambulance with the truck. I legitimately thought The Rock was murdered on television.

[@OptimusProvost]

I had front row tickets to a NXT house show right when the world shut down.

[@Magnum_Dong]

A kayfabe trauma for me is when CM Punk beat Jeff Hardy in a loser leaves WWE match. I know the real world reason for it and that's awful too. But, as a child that grew up obsessed with Jeff Hardy, I will never forgive Punk.

[@mat_progame_chanel7845]

NXT 2.0 or Daniel Bryan when he retired in 2016 that made me sad and almost made lose interest in wrestling but then nxt helped and the brand split and I’m still a wrestling fan

[@jckorn9148]

Trish and Lita retiring within months of each other. Edge being forced to retire in 2011, Punk leaving wrestling in 2014. Watching Royal Rumble 2015 with Wrestlemania 31 tickets in hand o_o Eddie passing, Wyatt passing. The lows make the highs so much better though.

[@thepepsidude1]

The entire crown jewel 2018 event

[@wallydollarlive]

I was there in Washington DC when the new general manager was announced… Mike Adamle

[@Allman203]

Brock Lesner winning money in the bank without even being in the match.

[@gustavoclarindo101]

The change to 2.0 and that period when there was no wrestling during ad breaks😤😤😤

[@hersh23]

Plenty of wrestling trauma here but one that I always groan at is that time in....2018? Don't remember when but it was when backstage promos had random huge words pop up and when the Usos did that "LOCK DOWN" promo where they had animated jail bars closing WHILE they cut the promo in ring....and Shinsuke's huge "ROOOOCCCCKKKSSTAAARRRR" scrolling across the screen. I don't know if they were trying to appeal to a younger audience or maybe it was a social media thing but Jeeeeeeesus was it tough to watch

[@diabeticman2194]

NXT 2.0 is a fascinating trauma; at the time it was a weird and terrible idea, a petty Vince move because Triple H lost the Wednesday night wars. It was weird with the more cartooney characters and Von Wagner pushes compared to Black and Gold, however over time it has become a brand that is consistently fun to watch and puts on great matches (especially at their PLEs). It started off terribly, but it has blossomed into a great show over time imho, so I can look past the beginnings of 2.0. -Also the memes that started on the Cultaholic wrestling podcast because of 2.0 are all timers, Come Tuesday was the gift that kept on giving- Edit: Austin having his Roman Reigns-esque trauma from the Shield breaking up

[@tareklegrand7747]

Over time they removed the rainbow colors and HBK became in charge

[@KegOfMeat]

Most recent wrestling trauma is Edge leaving WWE and going to AEW. I preferred Empty PC to ThunderDome. All the screens was distracting.

[@Average.writer]

1. I was in the New Japan Ring of Honor show. And I remember the confusion everyone had when Enzo and Cass showed up. 2. I was in a live Raw show during the No matches during commercials era.

[@user-im8ru2bt7u]

My wrestling trauma was the first like month maybe after Kane unmasked. As a kid I saw Kane set JR on fire and get thrown into the flaming dumpster and it made me genuinely scared of unmasked Kane for like 5 years 😂

[@Dammage89]

I remember on WCW Saturday Night back in the '80s, Dusty Rhodes was attacked by the Road Warriors and they tried to put out his eye with a spike from the shoulder pads.

[@WrestleJuice]

If I watched wrestling as a kid, I really would have loved old NWA/WCW.

[@carlosv3108]

Even though they were always a mid to lower card tag team in the Fed, I always hoped one day to see The Bushwhackers capture the WWF Tag Team titles. Those hopes came to an end when they were defeated by the Psycho Twins (Steve and Carl). The damage was done.

[@ryguyk9375]

Nothing has traumatized me more in WWE than the stupid fucking golden egg storyline with Vince and Theory.

[@sparkplug405]

I literally stopped watching weekly WWE tv until Vice left because of that.

[@TheKingOfAmazing]

Raw after Bad Blood 2004. Triple H and Shawn Michaels and in the ring and Kane pillmanized Michaels throat. I remember watching that 20 years ago as a 12 year old kid through tears and absolutely traumatised

[@thechamp3875]

My wrestling trauma is the episode of Raw where Kane beat Finn Balor clean. To this day the only time I turned off the channel.

[@justinfranklin4934]

You not lying bro 🥲lowkey gave up on Finn’s push after that

[@CLOWNSARENOTSCARY]

Taker's "retirement" in 2017. That hurt really bad for some reason I can't explain.

[@bigredcelery75]

Christian dropping the WHC less than a week after winner it always chapped me the wrong way. That was one of the first instances where I realized how terrible Vince was with booking. Hell In A Cell 2019 was the show that made me stop watching WWE on a weekly basis. Watching Asuka and Shinsuke Nakamura both lose at WM 34 has always stung. Black and gold NXT gave me hope that WWE could create some very fun and interesting stars. Mania 34 showed that VKM didn't want to push a wrestler unless it was his creation. Edge and Bryan Danielson both being forced into medical retirement broke my heart. Watching both of them return and thrive again is what has made me fall in love with wrestling again.

[@ThisIsGers]

Mines is when Randy Orton was supposed to go against Brock, and Brock just busted his head open and the match ended right then and there…

[@Ty2595]

I came back to wrestling watching performance center/ dome era so I love it 🤣💁🏽 do a trauma 2

[@technounionrepresentative4274]

For me it was either whenever a wrestler died tragically or were revelaed to be a terrible person, Eddie's death, Owen's fall, bray wyatt recently, Or for being a terrible person, Chris Benoit, brock recently (Allegedly) Hulk hogan, It's just disheartening to hear that people you looked up to were actually garbage people and it's just depressing for these people to die early, It must be sobering to realize that you're older than someone like owen was when he passed

[@DMAN_GAMR]

Fiend losing at Mania 37 killed WWE for me and I didn’t watch week 2 week programs til mania 40

[@claybaxter3202]

The Rockers break up. When Marty tried to escape through the barbershop window.

[@47ness5]

WILL YOU STOP??

[@SirSketch4th]

My wrestling trauma is Bayley v. Alexa Bliss in a Kendo Stick on a Pole Match at Extreme Rules 2017. I was expecting Bayley to lose, but to have her do literally NOTHING in that match? Was so angry at that.

[@diabeticman2194]

That's a great trauma tbh, that match was stupid

[@ryanchad586]

Booker t, triple h, wrestlemania

[@lithantushelo7932]

I knew someone would mention Cena balding🤣🤣

[@tonythepokemonguy751]

I can fully never dislike thunderdome, they did what they could to put on a show and did give us some fun moments.

[@JayRasheed718]

My first wrestling trauma was when Undertaker and the rest of the ministry beat down X Pac to get Kane to lose an inferno match on smackdown. He was so bloody I thought he was going to die (don’t judge me I was 9 and never seen that before) 😂😂😂 some shit that shocked me as an adult nothin will top Sid breaking his leg

[@josseramos7330]

Rhea tore her tricep and I’m only now getting my appetite back

[@850bigboy]

i don't know what's more traumatic asuka losing her undefeated streak at wrestlemaina 34 or the fact of her losing at her next 5 wrestlemania appearances afterwards

[@Aaisha.R]

Randy stretching Jeff's ear at HIAC.

[@anthonyr8906]

Let me think for me I would have to say my wrestling trauma would probably be anytime Brock got the belt and we knew he wouldn't see him again well trauma or more like anger

[@Konakuza]

Jinder Mahal winning the WWE Championship during the peak of Smackdown live. Made me stop watching week to week and primarily focus on NXT during that time

[@ad206]

When I was 8 years old and I was so psyched for Triple H's 2002 return. I saw an interview with Jericho where he said something like "I didn't want to put Triple H in the Walls, but he told me just do it" and my 8 year old brain couldn't comprehend this information. It was the beginning of my realization that "Oh... this isn't really real."

[@Sam54171]

For me, i guess it hasnt happened yet, but once John Cena fully retires from in ring action is probably when it'll happen Guy was my hero for a lot of my childhood, and it'll be sad once that day comes

[@navtektv]

Edge retiring. 2011 fucking sucked. I stopped watching from then on. And what's funny is that Edge wasn't even my favourite wrestler. He was in my top ten but when he retired I took a look around and saw that most of the guys I loved watching were either retired or on their way to retirement. Shawn had retired the previous year. Triple H was now the COO and barely Wrestling. Angle was in TNA, Rey was being a transitional champion in the literal sense (losing the title on the same day he won it) and the whole product was suddenly catering to children. Just wasn't the same for me.

[@JulesEAbril]

they took the greatest indy fed of all time and replaced it with WWE: Nickelodeon. i feel your pain.

[@whitneybc10]

Seeing HBK lose to the undertaker at wrestlemania 26 knowing he had to retire 😭😭😭

[@davidthomas8551]

Jeff Jarrett’s and Triple H’s reigns of terror in the early 2000’s…

[@Notben10-s3p]

As an aew mark I was smoking that black and gold pack

[@primerex6935]

the ending of the explosive barewire death match at AEW Revolution. the match itself was very good its just the botched ending. im not over it

[@greasy2007]

Jim Cornette discussing it is comedy gold too

[@hamishjarvis]

NXT black and gold TakeOvers were the best best things to watch on the weekends damn everything was OMG and Holy S”@$

[@edgecrusher018]

A 2019 video is a great idea.

[@DeeseNuhtz]

I was a wee lad when Del Rio had "broken" Rey's arm and i was tryna get that motherucker through my TV.

[@jalenbanks3733]

The 24 7 championship gives me nightmares 😂

[@plasmapetey]

Mine is Tony Khan buying ROH. 2021 ROH got me into wrestling so it's special to me. And TK kinda killed the promotion honestly

[@Wolf-pp4sm]

I liked NXT 2.0, Brock beating Kofi, Raw Underground and Brock ending the streak lol My wrestling trauma is when Raw went to 3 hrs

[@graysoncoleman8642]

Rey Mysterio winning the belt the John Cena taking it off him in the same night…

[@ultraexcalibur1728]

3:35 Unless you have something to base it off of I would not falsely label someone as someone who goes into business for themselves especially since Goldberg himself has said that wasn't his decision.

[@zackattack3867]

Fiend VS Seth Rollins Hell in a Cell

[@2ColdScoprio]

“Shorty G”

[@bradenstjohn735]

I really liked Raw Underground and would love to see it back

[@deadwafflez9685]

David Arquette winning the WCW title. I loved WCW as a kid and that moment made me realize they were losing it. Also Vince buying WCW. Legitimately made me stop watching wrestling for over a decade. I tried to get into it after the buyout but it wasn't the same.

[@Nitemerican]

I once told Goldberg he was my hero. I was trippin.

[@mavris1]

Can you post the link to your Wrestling Society X videos, please?

[@JMC10PT]

I never watched 2.0 , I feel you.

[@Gruntpla]

Rey losing the WWE Championship and hour after winning it. Hated Cena for years after that

[@jdionio]

EVIL becoming IWGP Double Champ. Shit was horrible and led to the House of Torture.

[@static_gmedina]

Dammit i forgot to comment. Honestly, it's the undertaker streak. It ended without meaning anything.

[@stephenthedude4383]

Yep 10 years later and that match still sucks. Probably one of the craziest crowd reactions though, never heard an audience confused and silent like that

[@static_gmedina]

@@stephenthedude4383 the one time I bring my friend to watch wrestling and that happens.

[@stephenthedude4383]

@@static_gmedina daaaamn 😂🫣😂

[@stephenthedude4383]

@@static_gmedina Bryan's matches were pretty awesome at least

[@Stephen4523-se6yk]

Seth Rollins can just about kill The Fiend" with a chair & then light him on fire but one old ass spear from "Old-Berg" does the trick gimme a Damn break! Complete garbage & should be erased from the record books! Rip Bray, we all miss you!

[@punkdallas1646]

My wrestling trauma was Money in the Bank 2016. I was 17 at the time and I couldn't handle the Shield Circle Jerk. (Being at a Sam's Town Casino live viewing party) The moment started my drinking problems. (Alcohol doesn't help me forget) I constantly say Daniel Bryan ruined my birthday. March, 10 2014 But with him "taking a break" because of his injuries, cured my trauma.

[@colesonlamb5981]

Jeff Hardy losing to CM Punk on Smackdown in the steel cage match that forced him to leave WWE ruined my life when i was like 10

[@DamonHardin]

WCW’s cruiserweight division will never return. 205 was disappointing and the Speed championship means is a new 24/7 title.