10 Most Messed Up Moments In Wrestling Matches
7. Jun Kasai Bumps Face-First On A Gusset Board
In the interests of variety and not making you all sick to your stomach, Jun Kasai features just once on a list that, if taken literally, he would dominate.
Kasai specialises in the messed up; he is as much masochistic performance artist as professional wrestler. He transcends what the public understands of violence in the context of professional wrestling in a dangerous and irony-courting bid for immortality. His disturbing, incredible pain tolerance informs his pioneered genre of body horror.
It's...a successful gimmick, if either of those terms can even be applied; Kasai is a mythical presence on the death match circuit, standing alone, mercifully, as the most demented torture artist in his field. The very name summons a visceral revulsion. He is willing to permanently scar his body, at a minimum, every time he enters the death match arena. If death match wrestling can be perfected, he perfected it; no other performer ever sold the relish - and reality - of their actual demise.
He transcended even the most optimistic of calculated risks in a video nasty of a Combat Zone Wrestling match. Where most take punctures to the back, he bumped face-first into a gusset blade board. The blood on his face looked like paint.
He sold it with what was left of his face, at least; his maniacal eyes got him over as the most psychotic man to ever do it.