6 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Nov 17)

2. Joey Janela Is Triggering The Old Guard

Joey Janela has leveraged a cult following not through being the best wrestler on a loaded Independent circuit, but by far the most batsh*t insane. Or stupid. You mileage may vary.

Janela was the guy taking that controversial roof bump last year, in which he was driven off a building and through a flaming table laden with light tubes. He missed three months' worth of ring time after that. He was the guy who drove Lio Rush through a table off a ladder earlier this year, only for Rush to immediately no sell it and roar straight back up. At this year's PWG Battle of Los Angeles, he kicked out of a Burning Hammer delivered on top of a chair. Essentially, he's the Shane McMahon of the Indies - the guy who gets over by acting the lunatic.

This week, he annoyed - and worried - much of the wrestling community by spiking Ryan Smile's head on the canvas at a RevPro show. Watch forensically, and you'll actually see Smile just taking the move across the shoulders - but the scope for injury is so vast, the long-term dangers of this style so unknown, that you have to question the intelligence of the spot, and not merely the anti-psychology of it.

Janela reaches for notoriety, not fame - and it's working - but you can't take worse bumps than Mitsuharu Misawa and expect a better fate. I dread to think what awaits Janela - quite a few Indy and New Japan guys, for that matter - in a decade.