10 Horrifying Wrestling Injuries Captured On Camera
4. Brock Lesnar's Neck
John Laurinaitis' biggest error in judgment was first signing the wrong one-legged wrestler when tasked with bringing Zack 'Tenacious Z' Gowen to WWE in 2003. His second was advising Brock Lesnar to beat Kurt Angle with his rarely-seen Shooting Star Press.
The logic of the request was sound...ish, even if the execution of the move flew in the face of Brock Lesnar's entire aesthetic. He'd performed the move as a regular finisher during his developmental days, but the risky flight was smartly binned upon his main roster ascension. Lesnar Version 1.0 was always considered super-human, but a move of such flare literally flew in the face of what he'd since brought to the company as 'The Next Big Thing'.
Dropping all of his broad body on his equally thick neck, Lesnar amazingly fought through glazed eyes to drop Angle with a match-winning F5 as a replacement finish. His inability to stand and celebrate at the end was astonishingly resembled less shocking when he returned to work just weeks later. In 2018, it would be footage spliced over video of his tearful retirement farewell.