10 Times Wrestling Fans F***ed Around & Found Out

10 people doing the stupidest thing you could do at a wrestling show and paying the price...

Bash at the Beach 1996 fan
WWE

Don't ever throw things into the ring or reach beyond the guardrail to touch a wrestler beyond slapping five as make their way to the ring.

Don't ever get in a wrestler's face with abuse so vile that it transcends the boos and cheers expected within the context of the art-form.

Don't ever ever jump the guardrail.

Don't ever ever ever for the love of anything you hold dear ever jump the guardrail and get in the ring.

It feels necessary to state the obvious here on the tiniest off-chance that this article reads as glorifying the poor choices made by the fans featured. It absolutely does not. Wrestling isn't real, but the only time it is is when a fan decides to try it on with one of the performers. The brother/sisterhood reveals itself, the punches are no longer worked and the core tenets of the industry are fiercely protected by some of the biggest protectorates you'd never want to meet in person.

You could do a lot of dumb things at a wrestling show, but you couldn't do any dumber than this lot.

10. LA Park

Bash at the Beach 1996 fan
CMLL

Though not quite on the level of the chair shot to the back of Disco Inferno during their shared WCW days, LA Park's punch on a fan who idiotically attempted to pull his mask off came was high banter nonetheless.

A match spills into the front row when the insane inciting incident occurs - Park feels the hands on the back of his head because the fan makes no attempt to hide what he's trying to do. Swinging around with a strike in one fluid motion, Park's wheeling motion only adds to the power of the punch and the guy almost cartoonishly falls backwards after absorbing the worst of it on the chin.

As "f*** around and find out" as this entire list gets, the choice to manhandle a wrestler anyway is a poor one knowing what almost every other paying punter does. Going one further and trying and remove a Lucha icon's mask was beyond the pale.

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Michael is a writer, editor, podcaster and presenter for WhatCulture Wrestling, and has been with the organisation over 7 years. He primarily produces written, audio and video content on WWE and AEW, but also provides knowledge and insights on all aspects of the wrestling industry thanks to a passion for it dating back over 30 years. As one third of "The Dadley Boyz", Michael has contributed to the huge rise in popularity of the WhatCulture Wrestling Podcast, earning it top spot in the UK's wrestling podcast charts with well over 50,000,000 total downloads. He has been featured as a wrestling analyst for the Tampa Bay Times and Sports Guys Talking Wrestling, and has covered milestone events in New York, Dallas, Las Vegas, London and Cardiff. Michael's background in media stretches beyond wrestling coverage, with a degree in Journalism from the University Of Sunderland (2:1) and a series of published articles in sports, music and culture magazines The Crack, A Love Supreme and Pilot. When not offering his voice up for daily wrestling podcasts, he can be found losing it singing far too loud watching his favourite bands play live. Follow him on X/Twitter - @MichaelHamflett