7 Giant Lies Told By Wrestling That Will Definitely Kill You
2. Being Hung Isn't Fatal
Nobody watching WrestleMania XV felt as lucky as 19th century criminal Joseph Samuels (the man who, reportedly, survived three hangings). On 26 September 1803, Samuels was sentenced to death by hanging, and he'd live to tell the tale. The Big Boss Man must have had some of that luck in 1999.
Only kidding, he was just part of a bogus wrestling angle that defied any sense of realism.
Hung from a noose attached to the Hell In A Cell structure, Boss Man pretended to struggle before going limp and dangling high above the ring as the cage was raised. The clear insinuation here was that The Undertaker, demonic monster that he was, had killed his nemesis on the biggest show of the year.
He hadn't. Boss Man made a miraculous recovery and was back on TV quickly as though nothing had ever happened. Of course, in real life, being hung by the neck for several minutes would result in an excruciating death, not a World Title feud by the end of the year like Boss Man received.