10 Gruesome WWE Injuries That Made Us Sick

Hardcore Holly was hardcore in nature, if by hardcore you meant stiff, bruising strikes and a bullish Alabama Slam finish. Holly was not, however, hardcore in the ECW sense of the word. Though he was an original pillar of WWE's hardcore division, he used his fists as weapons more than he did a trash can lid or a stop sign; if someone was going to bleed in a Hardcore Holly match, it would've been because he'd drawn the blood with his own two hands.

Or it would've been because a standard suplex spot had gone so erroneously wrong.

Holly faced Rob Van Dam on the 26 September 2006 WWECW when, whilst suplexing RVD over the ropes, he overshot the table bump, meaning he took more of the impact than Van Dam did, and boy was it noticeable. A large gash opened on Big Bob's back from a piece of the wooden table carving into him and blood splurted from his back in a most queasy visual, the sort of wound you'd expect to see on a CZW show, not a WWE product two years away from becoming PG.

Ironically, the accidental wound was as ECW as WWECW got, serving as a flagrant reminder that WWECW was, in fact, not Extreme Championship Wrestling in any way.

Not purposely, at least.