10 Gruesome WWE Injuries That Made Us Sick
7. Triple H Spikes Marty Garner (WWF Superstars, 1 June 1996)
Triple H's Pedigree looks nasty. Rarely will this be admitted, given the consensus petulant hatred for his in-ring work, but it does.
It's a gnarly double-underhook facebuster with 'The Game' putting all his weight behind the victim's face-first drop. At first, there was little padding to protect the wrestler's face-first drop so as time has passed, the move has evolved, with Triple H now releasing the hooked arms as he leaps into the air, softening the blow of the impact, though it took one too many Pedigree victims before this change was made.
Marty Garner, an enhancement talent who wrestled sporadically for WWE throughout the nineties and noughties, wrestled a still-fresh-to-WWE Triple H on the 1 June 1996 Superstars when he treated the Pedigree as a double-underhook suplex over a facebuster. He leapt up, spiking himself as cleanly as Will Ospreay, as a result, with Triple H drilling him into the mat with such force that it's a miracle Garner's neck wasn't snapped in two.
It looked animalistic. The Pedigree already wasn't a fun move to take - it still wasn't, even with the change - but it's this bump that raised the move's stock as a legitimate match-ender that could justifiably bring a glut of World Championships Triple H's way.