10 Genuinely Disturbing WWE Heel Beatdowns
8. Randy Feels The Bite
Beyond calming as he was carted away from the aforementioned 1986 throat assault, Ricky Steamboat fell off a stretcher in 1986 as Randy Savage gloated and posed. It was this "prime" Jake Roberts referred to five years later as he coaxed a retired babyface Macho Man to the ring following a relentless campaign of abuse over the summer of 1991. And a similar fate befell the Savage after suffering an even more heinous atrocity.
Roberts setting his very real cobra on Randy's very real arm with a very real bite was perhaps the riskiest and most rewarding segment every produced by WWE, particularly at a time when the product was geared almost exclusively to children.
Slapping Randy as the snake sunk its teeth in deeper, Jake went as far to scream in Elizabeth's face and threaten any potential saviours by wildly swinging the reptile in their direction. Randy crumpled to the floor as the parade of medics tried to wheel him to the back, memories of Steamboat's famous fall lost in a venom-induced haze.