10 Most Re-Watched Wrestling Moments Of All Time
In which God is far from the only witness.
Wrestling, if we had to use just one word to describe it, is surreal.
It is a paradox of an art form. Trained athletes protect one another's bodies under the pretence of maiming them. The über-masculine fanbase is driven to frenzy by the sight of muscled men in tight, revealing outfits. We pay good, hard-earned money to be insulted by the villains of the piece. It's an industry in which talents decried as past-it hangers-on, like Matt Hardy circa 2013, are received as saviours four years later. In which limited nearly-men are cast as megastars by a man with more sway than the Disney Corporation. In which Monsters Among Men take residence in multiple garbage trucks throughout the course of a week. In an industry in which insanity is a regular fixture, it's little wonder that these impossibly larger-than-life moments are replayed ad nauseam. Did they really happen?
The rewind button is as valuable fixture in the Network era as the fast forward - why suffer through 205 Live, when you can watch tag team specialists annihilate old ladies?
Whether through their surreality or sheer, perfect quality, the following moments, above all, are enshrined as immortal...
10. "Puppies!"
Hundreds and thousands of VHS copies of Fully Loaded 1998 were sent into a snowstorm at the sight of Sable triggering middle America.
As part of Mr. McMahon's ongoing moral crusade, he forbade Sable from wearing anything too revealing in her bikini contest with Jacqueline. Of course, McMahon had been outed as the company owner at this point, which didn't beg the question "Why book it in the first place?" - because the plot hole provided an army of hormonal fans a convenient hiding place for some much-needed privacy. Sable wasn't a great wrestler, but she showed her working credentials here; after verbally laying waste to McMahon's idea of "conservative", Sable baited, switched, and removed her crop top to reveal an enormous pair of bare breasts obscured only by a pair of painted hand prints. Gauging by the reaction of Jerry Lawler, he wished they were his: he bounced up and down on his haunches like a prized stud in the process of semen extraction.
We've all grown up since this moment of en masse sexual awakening. We've seen breasts IRL. Some of us are married. Some of us have kids.
We all shared Jerry Lawler's reaction, even if some of us have moved on.