10 Car Crash Wrestling Matches That You Absolutely Adore

In a similar vein to the Kurt/Shane match, Eddie Guerrero's title defence against JBL at Judgement Day is infamous for one spot leading to the havoc of the rest of the contest.

Unlike Kurt/Shane, the feud going in was a classic SmackDown '04 one: absolutely goddamn insane. JBL was on the stock market and cut a promo about succeeding at everything except wrestling, he gave Eddie Guerrero's mum a heart attack at a house show, he was going to the border to hunt Mexicans in order to mess with Eddie, etc. It was a tasteless, compelling way to establish the former Bradshaw as a despicable heel, and the opening of their main event showed their chemistry and JBL's solid heel offence. And then the blood happened.

JBL swings a chair at Eddie's head on the outside after a ref bump. Eddie does a blade job and cuts too deep; he clips an artery in his forehead and blood is flowing out of a hole in his face, spurts of crimson gushing relentlessly, flowing into his eyes and down his cheeks. He gets back in the ring and blood covers the canvas harder, more than audiences have ever seen. JBL applies a sleeper hold, cutting off the oxygen from the brain causing the blood to flow even harder to the surface. He bled so much that he went into shock backstage. Like with Shane/Kurt, it added an overwhelming sensation to the match; Eddie was the most over babyface, and him surviving JBL's offence and continuing to fight back was genuinely courageous. He looked on the verge of death and kept fighting strong. It's an aura that the company could never replicate.

Even with a DQ finish, it is undeniably one of the greatest matches of all time, and a total goddamn disaster.