8 Wrestlers Who Got KNOCKED OUT (... & Still Finished Matches)

8. Kurt Angle

For years, WWE knocked out "Don't Try This At Home" videos to attempt to cut down on copycat tapes being made and shared across schools and backyards the world over, and the verbiage became so familiar that fans could repeat the list of gruesome injuries parrot fashion along with the talent. 

For years, those videos included the shot from SummerSlam 2000 of Kurt Angle and Triple H falling through an announce table before 'The Game' could actually connect with the planned Pedigree on the Olympic gold medallist. They did not go on to show the rest of the triple threat main event of the show, which mostly had to be scaled back to a singles between 'The Game' and Champion The Rock while Angle recovered just enough to be involved in a dramatic finish that folded in the ongoing love triangle between the two wrestlers and Stephanie McMahon. 

Angle had kissed McMahon on the go-home SmackDown in a segment that wouldn't happen now, but she'd appeared to very much enjoy it, further driving the three main eventers to a climax that went beyond the simple matter of Rock's WWE Championship. A complex finale that involved all sorts of friendly fire and accidental weapon shots required Angle to at very least be a warm body out there. Less than ideal when he'd been knocked out cold.