10 Times You Forgot Pro Wrestlers Broke Kayfabe On The Air

10. Mankind Buries The People's Elbow

The term 'no-selling' is used to describe a wrestler who doesn't react to being hit. Remember how Hulk Hogan became somehow impervious to moves that would've ordinarily taken him off his feet after he 'Hulked up?' That's an extremely exaggerated version of a no-sell.

But at least in the Hulkster's case, his refusal to react to his opponent's strikes like an actual human being was still within the confines of kayfabe. That wasn't the case when Mick Foley decided to mock 'the most electrifying move in sports entertainment' during his heated rivalry with The Great One.

Leading up to his Triple Threat match against The Rock and Ken Shamrock at Breakdown, Foley, as Mankind, offered an uncharacteristically blunt assessment of a certain over-the-top - and woefully unrealistic - finishing move:

"Of all the stupid things I've seen in my life, nothing rivals The People's Elbow. So if you think that Mankind, in a pay-per-view match inside the steel cage, is going to lay down and sell that abortion...well, you're even stupider than I look."

Insider talk like that was pushed to the forefront during Vince Russo's tenure as WWE's head writer, but most fans weren't really "in on it" in those days.

As for the legitimacy of Mankind's statement, when it came time to take The People's Elbow in the match later that night, he did, in fact, sell it pretty nicely.