10 Wrestlers Who Really Never Saw It Coming

3. Mike Bell

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Mike Bell's wrestling career was one which saw the New York native utilised as a semi-regular enhancement talent on WWE programming from 1992 up until 2003.

Infamously, one of these such contests saw Bell going up against Perry Saturn on a May 2001 episode of Jakked. As per usual, this was a brief, brisk three-minute affair which saw the bigger name pick up the win. This match was far from a case of plain sailing for Mike, though.

After an early hiptoss on Saturn saw the former European Champion land awkwardly, the one-time Eliminator decided to go into business for himself and legitimately rough up his opponent. By rough up, that meant take extreme liberties with Bell, specifically targeting his neck and spine in brutal fashion.

This was ugly to watch, and Saturn would later be punished by receiving a similar whooping from The A.P.A. and then handed the god-awful Moppy gimmick.

As for Mike Bell, he wouldn't be used by WWE for nearly two years after this, with him returning to work four dates in 2003. Going into that Saturn bout, the last thing Bell could've expected was to have the sh*t beaten out of him for real - even once he'd botched his hiptoss.

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