10 Genuinely Disturbing WWE Heel Beatdowns
2. Nailz Hammers The Big Boss Man
Ill-informed observers may chuckle at the cartoonish spectacle of an overblown ex-convict assaulting a former law enforcement officer in the confines of a professional wrestling ring, but to tackle only the loud literal betrays the fabulous character portrayals of two believable brutes.
'Limited' would be a complimentary way to describe the in-ring ability of Nailz, but this in fact mattered little within the tight narrative of the character and this programme. He had been incarcerated and was conditioned to survive using chokes and punches rather than dropkicks, side suplexes and clotheslines. There were no ropes to run whilst working out in a prison yard.
Boss Man had been threatened by an eerie voiceover for weeks ahead of the eventual attack, and when Nailz struck as promised he did so with ferocious force and uncomfortable menace. Boss Man absorbed countless shots to the head, body and legs with a nightstick, all whilst handcuffed. The very implements of his once-brutal enforcement were used to completely debilitate him - an act so unapologetically violent that the ex-con heard the the mix of terror and hate from the stands even if his acts were allegedly rooted in redemption.