10 Disgusting Wrestling Bumps They Should Have BANNED

When your job is to throw your frame around a squared-circle multiple times a week, it's only natural for things to go slightly wrong from time to time.

And it's thanks to everything from some unfortunate miscommunication to something as simple as losing one's footing that some of the most shocking and horrific bumps in wrestling history were born.

However, there have also been those other moments of physical madness that left you cringing in your seats that actually seemingly went entirely to plan.

But once you realise just how much damage this risky manoeuvre likely did to the person on the receiving end of - or even delivering - the carnage, it's not uncommon to wonder why in the hell the folks in charge happily agreed to the horrendous bump being executed in the first place.

More often than not, wrestlers are just chasing immortality and the irreplaceable roar of thousands losing their damn minds.

After listening to just how much hell the following moves put stars' bodies through, or even assessing how unnecessarily perilous a spot was with your own eyes, though, it's safe to say that each and every one of these sickening moves probably shouldn't have made it past the pitching stage...

This superhuman wrestler who won an Olympic gold medal with a broken freakin' neck has found himself on the receiving end of some pretty nasty in-ring attacks over the years, with Kurt Angle infamously breaking that same neck on a few more occasions within WWE.

However, you may be somewhat surprised to hear that none of those horrendous moments actually rank as the worst bump he ever took during his Hall of Fame career.

That honour goes to the bizarre time someone thought it'd be a fantastic idea to have Kane chokeslam both Angle and Charles Robinson in one agonising sequence.

My match against the big red machine… Kane. This is the worst bump I ever took in my career. Referee Charles Robinson landed right on top of me. I thought I was going to crap myself. Lol. #itstrue #wwemoments pic.twitter.com/7QZrGsMTJd

— Kurt Angle (@RealKurtAngle) January 15, 2023

As the former WWE Champion would explain on Twitter/X earlier this year, the impact of the WWE official being dumped right into his own mid-section during this 2002 Monday Night Raw encounter with the masked titan was so brutal, there was a moment there when he genuinely thought he was going to shart himself.

Having the entire bodyweight of another human being fired right back down into your abdomen by a big red monster may have sounded like a blast on paper. But it was evident from the second Robinson connected with the Olympian below that this one should have likely stayed on the page.