10 Wrestling Matches That Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren't Meant To See

2. WWE's Trick Ladder, Various

Drew McIntyre
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The Ladder match has officially reached cage match levels of total normalised tedium.

The genre has become so oversaturated that most fans are unwilling to suspend their disbelief. Whenever a table is positioned by ringside, there's no anticipation anymore. Somebody is going to take a wild bump through it from a terrifying height and that's great and all, but Triple H tried to grab a rating with the exact same thing three weeks ago, so who could possibly care?

Pro wrestling in the U.S. is suffering from a prop crisis.

Virtually very prop used to convey violence or atmosphere looks like sh*t. Obvious crash pads. Plasterboard walls erected purely to break quite pathetically upon impact. Shiny pig carcasses. Black goo.

The Ladder match problem is compounded by the exposé of the trick ladder. The ladder used for a wrestler to smash through is made of wood, and it sure looks like it sucks sh*t to take, but the visual of compressed sawdust is suboptimal when wearing one's sociopathic wrestling hat.

Wood?

Wood?!

I was promised steel, you gutless turd!

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