10 Shocking REAL Stories Behind Famous Wrestling Scares

Watching a star suddenly land on their head on the back of a high-risk manoeuvre is pretty difficult at the best of times. But when said performer just so happens to be nearly 7ft tall and 273lbs, it's enough to scare you away from the business entirely for a week or two.

And the visual of Lance Archer attempting to nail a moonsault off the top-rope on the October 23, 2021 edition of AEW Dynamite most definitely falls into that unwanted category, with The Murderhawk Monster leaving fans the world over wincing in their seats during his bout opposite Eddie Kingston.

Yet, though folks understandably feared the worst from the moment Archer's forehead collided with the mat and the rest of his body crumpled down onto it, the towering worker thankfully managed to come away from the scenario without a broken neck.

But as Archer himself would note in the aftermath, despite getting away with an extreme version of whiplash, "had it been any part of the crown of my head, I probably would have been paralyzed or dead."

Maybe just leave the flipping to those "flippy floppers", eh, Lance?