10 Wrestlers Who Nearly Died In Travelling Incidents

10. Edge And The Winter Death Tour

Being from Canada, and both having paid their dues on the indie circuit up north, the young wrestlers that would later become the seven time WWF tag team champions Edge and Christian would frequently find themselves on the road in perilous winter weather. Edge would refer to these as their €˜winter death tours€™, where the dangers of frostbite were very real, and frequently the road would consist of the lurching craters left by the wake of snow ploughs. The worst of all possible incidents occurred when Edge, Christian and six other wrestlers were driving to the next show in Winnipeg. The journey involved having to cross a frozen lake overnight, and Edge had drawn the short straw and was driving the crew van, with the ring van following closely behind. The night was eerie, the shore far out of sight. All they could see was ice under a full moon. Struggling to stay awake, Edge barely saw the hole in the lake ahead €“ a hole the size of a football field €“ until it was almost upon them, and slammed on the brakes just in time, screaming in terror. The ring van also managing to stop, that left eight men and two very heavy vans standing motionless in -50 degree cold at 4am in the middle of a frozen lake so vast that it had taken them an hour to drive that far across it at 37 miles per hour.