10 MORE Wrestlers In Situations That Scared The Sh*t Out Of Them
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Bob Holly could probably fill all ten spots in this list if a) more wrestlers were willing to share their petrified past with him and b) it wouldn't put your writer in a situation that scared the sh*t out of him. This one, grisly as it still is to watch, was infamous from the off thanks to the bruising impact it had on late rookie sensation Matt Cappotelli on the original MTV incarnation of Tough Enough.
"When I first saw Bob Holly, I stood up a little straighter", said Matt, with Dennis Reynolds-levels of implication, before other talking heads from the future Johnny Nitro, Nidia and others express the terror they experienced watching Hardcore's decimation of the trainee from the other side of the ring. The trainees speak of being "confused" and being "taken off guard", but the quivering lips betray their loose composure.
The footage was divisive at the time, but industry insiders then were supported by fellow wrestlers in the future - it was nothing they hadn't experienced, or at least weren't willing to discount the value of the battering. Times have drastically changed in this regard - if Performance Center footage mirroring this sort of physicality hit the internet, it'd be a privacy leak beyond any gross personal intrusion.