10 Wrestlers Who Destroyed Themselves For Terrible Matches

While the actual match itself may not have seen Rey Mysterio being viciously brutalised by the Big Show to the point of wondering what in the hell the folks who put the bout together were thinking, the shocking spot that followed the pair's just-there squash at Backlash 2003 sure did.

The WWE Hall of Famer had spent much of the pretty unremarkable three-minute contest beforehand trying to overcome the giant with his superior speed and agility. Those few exciting flurries aside, though, this was your typical monster ultimately dominates the underdog WWE offering.

But then things took an entirely unnecessarily savage turn in the wake of Show's pulverising of Rey-Rey. With Mysterio being strapped into a stretcher after being broken in half by a chokeslam, the towering force returned to swing the masked icon into the ring-post like a human baseball bat.

And with Rey's arms being held back by said stretcher, the future World Heavyweight Champion had no choice but to take the full impact of his fall to the ground face-first.

Would it really have been too much to ask for just one of his damn arms to be kept free to slightly soften the horrendous impact?