10 Most Messed Up Moments In Wrestling Matches

10. Ian And Axl Rotten Slice Each Other Up

You likely read about this match before you ever watched it.

Even in those first insider mags you picked up from the newsagent, with their wild images of sparks, barbed wire and claret-drenched faces, the lurid mentions of a match fought with glass glued to fists elicited a certain horrified fascination.

How was it possible to fake?

How did nobody incur serious harm?

...where can I find it?

And when you watched the Taipei death match, you were met with an artless gore-fest lacking badly in suspense. It was among the most dangerous and gory matches to never really feel dangerous. It took Ian and Axl Rotten all of five seconds to land the first blow after some obligatory ducking. The storyline machination of Bill Alfonso's power trip did in fairness create that sense of sick longing, but once he was dispensed with by Todd Gordon, the warring brothers just sprinted into one another's face glass-first. That was the height of the action; beyond the furious restart, Ian and Axl simply and politely took it in turns to cut one another open in a plodding brawl that delivered what was advertised and what was advertised only.

It was well worked only in that the glass looked like it was being plunged far more deeply into the flesh than it was.

The blood was of a nasty, thick variety; fittingly enough, so were the workers, who were at least bright enough to wear white.