10 Greatest Squash Matches In Wrestling History

10. Brock Lesnar Vs. Zach Gowen - WWE SmackDown (August 21 2003)

Just to further flesh out that point, before the list proper, there is scene in South Park that doubles as a moral quandary. You are dared to laugh at its horror, in effect.

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It's the big hockey game in Stanley's Cup, and the life of a terminally ill child is in the balance. It pits a pee-wee hockey team against - following a farcical set of circumstances - elite adult professional males. The young children are crushed in a series of gruesome visuals, and their loss leads to the death of their sickly teammate. It's as dark as hell...

...to the normal being. The pro wrestling fan is accustomed to and delights in this dynamic.

Brock Lesnar was at one point the most lethal man alive. In 2003, he faced a very skinny pro wrestler. With one leg.

Good God, this was fantastic. Before the match began, Lesnar walked over to his mother, watching from the front row, as if to haunt her. She would see that visual in the years to come, tormented by the knowledge that she could have slapped him. Gowen used this as a diversion, assaulting Lesnar from the skies, but it had no effect. Lesnar flattened him with a punching lariat of sorts. It was as if he couldn't even wait to stretch out his arm. He then bruised the poor bastard's spine with multiple, revolting powerbombs before - as one does - F5ing his sole leg into the metal ring post in a total bloodbath.

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