10 Awful Injuries Which Led To Amazing WWE Matches

10. Sabu Almost Bleeds To Death, Terry Funk Doesn't Fare Much Better - Born To Be Wired '97

Since WWE has absorbed all of ECW's properties, we're going to argue this is OK to include.

Sabu and Funk are two of the most extreme wrestlers of all time, willing to put themselves through almost anything for the sake of the art. Probably the epitome of this attitude was their no-ropes-barbed-wire-match at the Born to Be Wired PPV in 1997.

Both ended up covered in cuts and bleeding heavily. Sabu, at one point, missed with a splash and ripped his left bicep open with a 10-inch gash that he simply taped up with trainer's tape. Despite the massive blood loss and what must have been an incredibly painful injury, Sabu finished the match and pinned Funk to win the ECW Championship.

Was this an amazing wrestling match? No. Was it an amazing spectacle? Yes. By the end both Funk and Sabu were covered in so much barbed wire that clothes were shredded and Sabu couldn't properly put Funk's shoulders on the mat. They both needed to be literally cut out of the wire with shears.

On a podcast, when asked about the most violent thing he had seen in ECW, Joey Styles answered without hesitation that it was this match.