10 Times Wrestlers Were Spooked FOR REAL

4. Rob Gronkowski Won't Jump

Rey Mysterio
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WWE wrestlers are bound by a sacred (and frankly ludicrous) tenet that Vince McMahon won't ask them to do anything he wouldn't do himself.

What's effectively a form of gaslighting has been championed for years as a great motivational method from an even greater man, and such toasting is typically set to clips of him having the first go of the Shawn Michaels WrestleMania zip line or p*ssing his pants on television in order to keep Stone Cold Steve Austin over without keeping him as his Champion.

Such was the case again, bizarrely, in 2020 when the septuagenarian took a falling back bump from a balcony just to show the understandably wobbly Rob Gronkowski that everything was going to be alright.

McMahon falls onto crash pads and offers a jazz-hands style gesture afterwards, which probably scared the NFL star more. Reading the room, Gronk presumably knew at that moment that he absolutely had to do the stunt, even if the indie workers set to catch him might not have offered as safe a landing.

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