10 Most Ridiculous Oversells In Wrestling History
5. Sgt Slaughter (Royal Rumble 1992)
The best version of a bump he wedged into much of his work, the sight of a stocky Sarge soaring through the sky as a result of the psychotic Sid's superlative strength is still sensational.
Slaughter runs full pelt across a packed Royal Rumble ring, cracking his head on the steel post as a method of freeing up space to take a stomach-first fall to the arena floor.
It's got the lot. It's brave, it's dangerous, it looks impressive, and it's even kind of stupid. The Royal Rumble affords a million different ways of getting thrown out to the floor, with showstealing bumps something of a rarity on events with so many talking points already in-built.
Nonetheless, kudos for the the former WWE Champion for giving it his all for the benefit of a future one. As he so often did, Sid looked hard as f*ck by manhandling the heavyweight star with such ease, and didn't even have to do a lot of 'handling' at that. It stood to reason that a man with enough strength to hurl Slaughter with such force in January could summon the fight to kick out of a Hogan leg drop in April with our without Papa Shango's cursed interference.