10 Horrifying Wrestling Injuries Captured On Camera

8. Cactus Jack's Ear

Triple H Injury
WWE

*The match in full*

Ever the worker, Mick Foley had to wait years to make the best of the horrendous situation when a 1994 Munich WCW house show match with Vader went full Tyson/Holyfield.

It was the gnawing grip of the cable ropes rather than the 'Mastodon's teeth that did the damage, but Cactus Jack's earless exit was eventually immortalised by WWE in the formation of the Mankind persona and Foley himself via his epoch-making maiden autobiography.

Understandably mooted in their violence against one another in comparison to their televised wars, the relatively routine clash trundles on until Foley traps his neck in the fateful hangman spot.

Rarely trotted out in mainstream wrestling (and presumably never seen again under WWE's PG restriction), Jack's trapped neck spot was designed with the terrifying accompanying visual in mind, but his slump to the arena floor following a referee-aided release carries ungodly heft considering his severed appendage.

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