Lets make one thing clear right from the start: an injury of any kind isnt really anything to be giggling about. Professional wrestlers tend to make careers out of working hurt, to protect their reputations and their spot in whatever promotion theyre working for (and basically to keep earning) but working injured is another thing entirely. And, over the years, some terrible and gruesome injuries have taken place inside the squared circle. Even discounting horrible accidents like Owen Harts tragic fall, there are still incidents like Darren Drozdovs paralysis after a botched running powerbomb in 1999, or Stone Cold Steve Austins broken neck after a botched piledriver in 1997. Theres the godawful big boot from the second turnbuckle that broke Sid Vicious leg and all but ended his career. Theres the uncontrolled bump out of the ring and across a coffin that took years off Shawn Michaels career and caused his first, premature retirement. Theres Triple H blowing the quad muscle in each leg in matches five years apart. There are dozens of other examples of deadly serious, nasty injuries occurring during the business of professional wrestling wed point out that this aint ballet, except that ballet can be brutal too (Aronofsky considered Black Swan a sister piece to The Wrestler, after all). However, this article isnt about those injuries. This article is about the damage caused in the ring that makes us wince for all kinds of different reasons. Because theyre hilarious, or they're embarrassing, or just because you just cant figure out how they actually did it these are the silliest in-ring injuries ever.
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