10 Wrestling Moments More Terrifying When You Know The Truth

10. Sting Nearly Goes Off The Edge - WCW Monday Nitro, 1997

Wrestling titan Sting's current All Elite daredevil ways, even at 63-years-young, won't come as too much of a surprise to those who took in the Icon's WCW antics back in the day.

Often taking to dramatically descending from the rafters in the mid-to-late '90s, what you may not have been aware of, though, is the fact that Stinger's first zip-wire assisted leap very nearly went disastrously wrong.

Upon testing out his first-ever rappelling from the rafters sequence for the United Center, January 20, 1997 edition of Nitro, Sting was quick to note "... it was scary."

Sting was so unnerved by the idea of dropping down 140 feet from the sky, after only rehearsing the scenario four times beforehand and spinning out consistently, that he actually told Eric Bischoff he couldn't do it.

After being ultimately talked back onto the ledge, however, it would later come to light that just as Sting was set to descend, the wrestler and stunt workers realised they actually had the kit set-up backwards!

With the tragic incident involving a similar stunt and Owen Hart still yet to come to pass, Sting would admit that had they not quickly fixed the problem, "... if I’d stepped over and done it, the same thing that happened to Owen would have happened to me."