10 Times Wrestlers Abandoned Their Comfort Zone

7. So Very British

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The previously unannounced fatal four-way ladder match at 2006's Armageddon pay-per-view lives in infamy among fans for the horrific sight of Joey Mercury's badly broken nose strewn across his face in a mess of blood and cartilage after taking the full force of a see-sawing ladder right between the eyes.

However, on the opposite end of the coin, the contest was also notable for marking the rare appearance of wrestling traditionalists William Regal and David Taylor in such a high risk encounter.

Initially expecting to take on tag team champions Paul London and Brian Kendrick in a standard tag team title match, Smackdown General Manager added the Hardy Boyz, MNM and the stipulation right before the bell rang, drastically increasing the scale of the task at hand for the hard-hitting Brits.

Gamely entering into the spirit of things, Regal and Taylor avoided all possible high spots but instead found tremendous comedy in tackling their morbid fear of heights in gingerly scaling the ladder to try and claim the titles.

Though ultimately unsuccessful, their trepidation was one of the less dangerous highlights of the dangerous encounter, and became a far nicer memory of the contest than the heavily publicised damage to Mercury.

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