10 Most Re-Watched Wrestling Moments Of All Time
1. "Good God Almighty!"
Though Ric Flair famously questioned Mick Foley's approach to the wrestling art form - he felt that, by using real violence to get himself over, Foley had failed to grasp the very essence of it - the success of the tactic cannot be denied.
Foley as Mankind knew he had no chance of reaching the heights of Shawn Michaels' seminal introduction to the Cell - and so, in a fit of genius-cum-insanity, he literally climbed higher. Channelling the suspense thriller psychology of his death match days, Mankind beckoned 'Taker to the top of the structure and waged war with him atop the shaky mesh. The only way was down - Foley didn't deal in the anti-climax - but the actual plunge, though inevitable, was inconceivable. There was no inflatable crash pad below. He simply flew from an unprecedented height and shattered his body for his art, in wrestling's own visual metaphor for the box office car crash - the very darkness of man. And then, he scaled the cage and went through the roof in parallel with all common sense.
We watched a man risk death, and we loved it. And we watched it again. And again.