10 Holy Sh*t Wrestling Moments You Didn’t Know About

1. PJ Hawx Shops Himself Around

The shopping mall was a place readers of a certain age and locale went to in your youth to "hang out".

You couldn't get served in a pub so you drank coffee and bought CDs for 17 quid and shirts with dragon print on it, and you still wondered why you were at Costa and not getting off with anyone. It wasn't a place where you went to watch mad wrestling stunts because you were in a provincial English town.

You weren't in f*ckin' 'Murica, where this was the norm somehow.

At least it seems that way watching a clip that would have went more viral, in February 2020, were it not for the peak of the Wednesday Night War and the unsettling emergence of something you passed off with "Well, bird flu didn't get me so I can't imagine a pandemic is going to happen and lead to Aleister Black going 27 minutes with Apollo Crews on an empty Performance Center RAW".

A little-known indie wrestler by the name of PJ Hawx, taking inspiration from his stuntman father, took flight at a shopping mall that month. It was difficult as well as demented; PJ had very little by way of a platform, just a railing, and he still launched into a death-defying crossbody into the ring below from a most unsteady position.

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