10 Crazy WWE Raw Moments You Totally Don't Remember
Home invasions, attempted murders, and suicidal dives: Raw's history is laced with insanity.
As an entertainment company, WWE are all about creating huge moments and lasting memories. The company promote wrestling as a spectacle above all else, and as their flagship show, it's only natural that Monday Night Raw has played host to a huge chunk of these moments.
From CM Punk's pipe bomb to the Nitro simulcast in 2001, some of the most iconic scenes in wrestling history have taken place on Monday nights. Raw has become the sport's most successful weekly brand as a result, and while the show's all-round quality has gone through several peaks and valleys over the years, its ability to stage huge moments has always endured.
Wrestling his always been a theatre for the absurd, insane, and downright dangerous, but some of Raw's craziest moments often go unmentioned. The show's vast, 24-year history ensures this - and while we all remember spots like Shawn Michaels' kicking Shelton Benjamin out of the air, this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Hundreds of others, however, remain consigned to the past...
10. Sabu's Insane Leg Drop
As far as wrestling nicknames go, “The Homicidal, Suicidal, Genocidal, Death-Defying Maniac” isn’t exactly the most succinct, nor is it the catchiest. It might just be the most appropriate epithet in the sport’s history, however: the bearer of it, Sabu, is one of the most insane individuals to ever perform for mainstream wrestling audiences.
Sabu’s work was never clean - he was a notorious botch-merchant - but that didn’t matter. You didn’t watch Sabu matches for crisp wrestling exchanges: you watched for the spectacle of watching a complete lunatic try to break himself in half for your entertainment.
From duct-taping his broken jaw shut while wrestling The Sandman, to literally super-gluing an arm laceration closed after a barbed wire rope match, most of Sabu’s craziest moments came in ECW. His WWE run wasn’t without its highlights, however, and on June 19, 2006, he almost ended himself again.
It looks tame compared to some of his more grisly moments, but the way Sabu “balances” on the top rope after popping up from the chair is worrying. What’s really impressive is that he’s able to steady himself, leap off, and destroy John Cena with a leg drop through the announce table. How on Earth he convinced Vince McMahon to let him do this is anyone’s guess - but it was an awesome moment, nonetheless.