10 Times WWE's Fake World Got Dangerously Real
8. Kane & Mankind’s Horrifying 1998 Raw Match
The Attitude Era was a ridiculously dangerous time, so much so that the iconic moments of violence have calloused many fans to the bleak reality.
You remember Mick Foley’s falls from and through the top of Hell In A Cell at King Of The Ring 1998, but you may not remember Foley’s second Cell match that year. That is because the early Attitude Era was so recklessly and casually violent that this sort of awful head trauma unfolded almost every week.
You couldn’t hope to remember it all.
On August 24, not even in the main event, Foley, wrestling Kane, again attempted to scale the cage. The Undertaker interfered, met Foley halfway, and flung him from the side and through a table. The bump is almost as bad as the famous one; Foley gets yanked, brushes the announce table with his ass, and takes a flat-back on exposed concrete. His head bounces off it, too, obviously.
When the match begins in earnest, it resembles Jimmy Uso Vs. Jey Uso at WrestleMania 40, only with unprotected chair shots to the head instead of terrible thrust kicks.
The match started at 00:44:31, and was thrown out when Steve Austin ran in at 00:52:35. It wasn’t even promoted at the top of the hour to coax the channel-changers.
A CTE-fest just…happened.