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

2. Nick Jackson: As Clever As He Is Deranged

Darby Allin
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Nick Jackson is endearingly known as an absolute lunatic amongst his peers.

This is worth labouring over. In a modern industry renowned for its demented risk-taking and eye-watering bumps, where a 450 has been normalised and an apron bump is more prevalent than the atomic drop, Nick Jackson is known as the crazy one.

He's crazy in a very funny way on AEW Dynamite in 2021, where, apropos of literally nothing, he will make bird noises in a promo. This version of Nick Jackson is familiar to PWG cultists, so you might expect to see a spot as deranged as the GIF above on TNT imminently.

Nick Jackson is also astonishingly creative, and this attribute, fused with a mischievous desire to outsmart the self-styled hardcores of Reseda, converged to create this jaw-dropping moment at PWG Threemendous III. It was awesome, and it made the crowd go banana because they'd seen nothing like it.

They had seen the teetering, ah-f*ck delayed bump before, which was batsh*t enough. They hadn't seen this incredible Nick Jackson twist, in which he used the top rope as a springboard.

This is why the Bucks are so fantastic: Nick Jackson launched a spectacular aerial move from a position of ungodly peril. It was an inconceivable spot, at least to those watching. Nick was a magical wrestler, so he could conceive of it, and a heel so next-level that he rubbed it in their faces.

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