10 Gruesome WWE Injuries That Made Us Sick

9. Enzo Amore's Whiplash (WWE Payback 2016)

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A change in rule here, as it's not so much the injury that left at least one WWE fan a tad queasy as it was the way in which it occurred.

Wrestling a humdrum staple of a WWE tag team match at a similarly-as-dry Payback pay-per-view in 2016, Enzo Amore and Simon Gotch worked a basic spot into their bout that saw Gotch thrust Amore, chest-first, into the middle rope. It looked cool, it made Gotch look like a killer act, and Enzo sold it spectacularly.

Until he wasn't selling it.

Enzo was legitimately concussed from the incident as his head bounced back from the ropes, smashing into the mat, and he would be out of action for the rest of the month, leaving a flailing Big Cass to stumble through lifeless promos with The Dudley Boyz. When Enzo returned on the post-Extreme Rules Raw, his pop was heroic in the same sense as Dan Matha and Babatunde entering the Greatest Royal Rumble; you're not really fussed, but it's a surprise so you react accordingly.

Enzo and Cass were still red-hot at the time of the injury, too. An uber-popular NXT act, they were a solid duo as well, contesting supreme matches with The Revival over the NXT Tag Team Championships before Simon Gotch inadvertently scuppered any progress they'd have on Raw and SmackDown.

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