10 Times WWE's Fake World Got Dangerously Real

10. Brock Lesnar Cuts Randy Orton Open The Hard Way

Imagine you’ve just watched a survival horror film in which a character is mutilated by a shark. The big attack scene looks all too real, and then you discover that it is. The actor’s leg was legitimately ripped apart. 

When you learn of this, you’re baffled. Wasn’t there some sort of cinematic technique the director could have used to create, safely, the exact same effect? 

Yes, but the thing is, the director wanted the shark to look incredibly dangerous. But hold on - isn’t the fact that a shark is a…shark already a rather large hint?

Also yes. 

This, incredibly, is almost precisely analogous to the finish of Brock Lesnar Vs.. Randy Orton at SummerSlam 2016. Brock, as instructed, used the sharp point of his elbow to draw blood from Orton’s head. The hard way. Brock is the toughest man to have ever walked into wrestling. He was a real-life great white shark who in storylines had ended the Undertaker’s WrestleMania streak. He needed no building up! 

This was as dangerous as it was utterly pointless, and it was unspeakably dangerous. 

Orton suffered a concussion. His career could have been severely affected - all because WWE thinks the blade is too intertwined with “wrasslin’”.