10 Wrestling Matches That Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren't Meant To See
1. TNA Literally Digs A Hole For Itself
The wrestler-gets-slammed-through-the-ring spot works - just - in the theatre of the mind.
Every ounce of common sense tells you that the wrestler hasn't plummeted to their doom by any great distance. Also, you're a wrestling fan born after the 1910s. You know it's bullsh*t. You know that gimmick smoke and mirrors are utilised to obscure the fact that it's bullsh*t. You know that a trap door of sorts has been implemented because it's rather difficult to smash somebody through the wooden boards otherwise.
And yet, the spot almost invariably gets over because it looks cool and it looks like the person taking it has been sent to oblivion.
This doesn't work when you can see that the person taking the move has their little legs sticking out of the ring.
This is precisely what happened to AJ Styles at Destination X, when Hulk Hogan transferred the power of Hulkamania to Abyss. With the red and yellow coursing through his veins, Abyss unleashed a racist tirade and asked Brooke if she needed any lotion lathered on her arse.
No, he didn't, but he did slam Styles through the canvas, which incited a chaotic farce of a scene in which Earl Hebner and Abyss himself, ducking out of the way of Ric Flair and Desmond Wolfe, put their foot through the hole.
It looked less like oblivion, more like they'd missed the first step climbing a set of stairs.