10 Wrestlers Who Survived The Impossible
Flesh-hungry monsters, electrocution and suffocating flames? WWE stars will survive!
Wrestling is pure fantasy.
Sure, parts of it are grounded in reality, but there's this odd sense of knowing ridiculousness about the whole business. One minute, fans applaud promotions for introducing gritty realism that focuses on true-to-life sport. The next, everyone is losing themselves in critically acclaimed cinematic epics that have impossible outcomes.
The guy writing this is guilty of occasionally turning his nose up at one outlandish situation, then immediately firing up WWE Network to relive old favourites from his childhood that were equally as ridiculous. That's pro wrestling for you - it's a landscape filled with the exaggerated, preposterous and downright silly. It always has been.
Another thing is certain: WWE stars (and wrestlers from other promotions) have survived things beyond the bounds of human capabilities. Some have been devoured by flesh-hungry monsters that'd be more at home on Netflix, others have succumbed to gimmicky matches that somehow keep happening, and a few have even endured death-defying falls without so much as a scratch.
Wrestlers, when promoters want them to be or just can't be arsed to explain away their booking, are super-human...
10. Vince McMahon
Vince McMahon is so tough, macho and all-round durable that he managed to escape the fireball inferno that engulfed his personal limousine on the 11 June 2007 Raw. Of course, most wrestling fans know that the grisly Chris Benoit tragedy changed WWE's plans for this, but it's still remarkable.
The boss returned to telly and palmed the explosion off.
WWE explained that it was all fiction, and that they weren't prepared to go through with an angle like that due to the ongoing Benoit drama. Fair enough. However, few stopped to explain countless other angles from company history with the same forthrightness or candour. Were they real? No, obviously not.
In TV land, Vince survived the fact that he'd been inside a vehicle when it exploded and burned away ominously as the flagship show faded to black. That would've been impossible - the blast would've knocked McMahon out, at least, and oxygen would've been at a premium inside the limo.