10 Worst Things That Can Happen When You Lose A Wrestling Match

6. You Could Be Legally Beaten To A Pulp Multiple Times

€˜Texas Tornado€™ is essentially a cute name for a tag team match where any and all members of every tag team in the match get to be in the ring at once. Memphis€™ United States Wrestling Association and Ohio€™s Absolutely Intense Wrestling, however, can go one better: €˜Texas Tornado Toughman€™ rules. The match proceeds as per normal Texas Tornado tag match rules€ that is, until one team gains a pinfall. At that point, the pinning wrestler gets to select a wrestler from the opposing team. That unfortunate soul is then on the receiving end of a savage beatdown from everyone on the pinning man€™s team €“ a beatdown entirely sanctioned by the referee for a period of sixty seconds. After the minute expires, if the poor man can€™t stand up to answer a count of ten, his team loses the match. If he manages to get to his feet in time, however, the match continues until the next pinfall. The match can only end when the last man to suffer the sanctioned sixty-second beatdown can€™t answer a ten-count, and loses the match for his team. Theoretically, one person could be pinned and then legally beaten to kindling a dozen times in a row in the space of one match, provided they're dumb enough to keep getting back up again. The Texas Tornado Toughman match can incorporate three-on-three or four-on-four tag team matches, or even more than two teams. It€™s basically a tag free-for-all that turns into a short, handicap Last Man Standing match, which turns back into a tag free-for-all, then back to a handicap Last Man Standing match, and so on and so on. We have to admit, we€™d love to see this one on WWE television sometime €“ the €˜WWE universe€™ would eat it up. John Cena can overcome the odds one last time before he flies into space to rescue the bottle city of Kandor from the tag team of Brainiac and Lex Luthor.
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