10 Most Messed Up Moments In Wrestling Matches
6. Masashi Takeda's Back Is Ripped Apart By...
Weapons in pro wrestling range, as everything else in pro wrestling does, from the sublime to the ridiculous.
The table bump is great. It's just so satisfying. It doesn't matter how often it's done, or how apparent it is that the actual thing is made from compressed sawdust. It's the perfect illusion, across the noise and the snap, of carnage. The steel chair is a bit lame now, since the person taking it has to politely position themselves, but the impact is still nice and visceral and - relatively - safe. Kendo sticks are cool but profoundly overused.
The cinder block is about as believable as Triple H claiming the Wednesday Night War was made up when he literally, on the first night NXT ran on USA, said he needed his fans with him in the "foxhole".
Rather a cinderblock than a board of f*cking knives.
At GCW Life Fast, Die Young last year, the gimmick wasn't a gimmick. Christ knows what they thought was going to happen. Masashi Takeda took a flat back on 10 upturned knives that did not budge on impact. The match was called off immediately because several deep, gaping, pouring holes instantly materialised on his body, like the pencil had just been removed from the Ziploc bag of water.
A disgusting, literal nerve-shredding scene that condemned death match wrestling as nearly exactly that.