10 Disturbing Wrestling Bumps That Nearly Went Badly Wrong

10. Nick Jackson's Awful Tumble

At AEW All Out, the Young Bucks battled the Lucha Brothers in absolutely insane Escalera De La Muerte ladder match.

It was worked perfectly within its theme of brotherly chemistry and the bond it creates: at various points, in inspired spots, competing brothers found themselves operating in inadvertent synergy. This put over the dynamic by very unique means, and informed the drama of the rubber match premised, simply, as a final, pulsating battle to decide the better team. These sequences deranged the senses to an extent that the match was made entirely unpredictable.

The match was richer than the insta-reaction suggested, but this near-miss was always going to reinforce the old narratives of danger and "spot-fests". In one of few established ladder match tropes - elsewhere, this was an unbelievably creative advancement of the genre - Pentagón Jr. scouted Nick Jackson ascending the ladder and sought to punish him with the old teeter-through-a-table spot.

Only, the "through" part didn't materialise; Nick fell just short of the table stack, absorbing in the process a sharp and drastic blow to the cranium.