10 Times Wrestlers Told You They Were FINISHED
3. Hercules (1992)
When you’re called Hercules for a living, your job is to be and look as hard as a rock as often as possible, but after six strong years with nicknames such as ‘The Mighty’ and ‘Power’, the time had arrived for man-behind-the-gimmick Ray Hernandez to look anything but either in a Madison Square Garden loss to the similarly monstrous Sid Justice in February 1992.
But he didn’t really want to do that. So what then?
He did the honours, but that was about all he did. Placing his hands behind his head for the powerbomb and stacked cover, Hercules popped up almost immediately after the finish. Sid - en route to facing Hulk Hogan in one half of the WrestleMania VIII main event - was told to leave the ring and cut his post-matchpromo to avoid cameras catching the no-sell in all it's glory.
Herc could already be caught by eagle-eyed viewers over Justice's shoulder standing up, and a brief camera cut highlighted him looking boxfresh despite the supposed devastation suffered just seconds earlier. He lost to The Berzerker the very next night and never worked for WWE again.