10 Main Eventers Who SUCKED At Great Moves (But Did Them Anyway)

3. Lita - Dive/Moonsault

Lita Trish Stratus
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Lita's two-for-one neck near-miss earns a place on this list for the fact she unleashed both horror-shows in a main event - arguably the most important of her career.

Pre-Women's Evolution, the 6 December 2004 Monday Night Raw topliner between the former Team Extreme member and then-Women's Champion Trish Stratus was comfortably the biggest women's singles match the company had ever promoted. A higher quality than the historic WrestleMania box office battle between Leilani Kai and Wendi Richter and better than everything done by Divas after they'd exited, the two best female all-rounders from the Attitude Era turned the volume way up in a spot they knew they'd likely not get again.

To her credit, Lita survived the most harrowing moment of the match when she managed to move after flattening her windpipe under the weight of her entire body with a catastrophically-landed dive to the floor. Her match-winning moonsault was the usual near-the-knuckle rotation that brought as many hearts to mouths as it did fans to their feet.

'Unscathed' would presumably be a little generous, but the fact she was able to walk backstage under her own power was a bigger reward than the title she proudly took with her.

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