10 Most Awkward "Didn't Get All Of It" Wrestling Moments
2. Rikishi Nearly Breaks His Ankle
2000 was arguably WWE's best ever year top-to-bottom; star power, in-ring, depth, promos, elegant, compelling, overlapping storytelling: almost everything was great beyond an underwhelming WrestleMania event and the sh*t-show that was the "Who ran over Stone Cold?" storyline.
A neat way of reintroducing Austin into storylines, at once creating an episodic thread and building a return opponent, it went badly wrong when Rikishi was revealed to be the culprit. He was miscast as a heel, failed to project this bobbins new character at the main event level, and the explanation was abysmal: Rikishi said he "did it for The Rock" because with Austin out of the way, the WWF couldn't look past "the island boys".
Rock was literally wearing the WWF Title when Rikishi was forced to kill his career in one segment.
The resulting in-ring series was "good not great," which is a euphemism for failure at that lofty level, and is best remembered for an omni-botch.
In one staggeringly weird sequence, Rikishi failed to get up for the Rock Bottom, appeared to break his ankle, covered the Rock by accident, and then removed himself from a potential winning predicament.
Mr. Bean couldn't even manage to do that.