10 Wrestling Matches That Did Not Go To Plan

7. Kurt Angle And Shane McMahon Can't Break The Glass (2001)

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Whenever an added variable is thrown into a bout, the chances of something going wrong are instantly doubled.

It's hard enough trying to get through a regular match without genuinely hurting the person in the ring with you and that difficulty only increases with the introduction of a steel chair, ladder or other dangerous item.

In the case of Kurt Angle and Shane McMahon's titanic war at 2001's King of the Ring, that unpredictable item wasn't one that could be wielded. Instead, this variable came in the form of multiple glass panels which Angle was charged with throwing the boss' son through.

Yet, what at first seemed like a fairly straight forward bump was quickly flipped on its head (or rather Shane was) when it became abundantly clear that plexiglass had been used for the panels and not the originally planned sugar-glass.

After Angle eventually suplexed McMahon through the firm glass once, he struggled to pull off the feat on the second panel and instead opted to hurl him head-first through the unforgiving glass.

It's still one of the most brutal unscripted acts in WWE history and one that could have been softened had things played out in the way that the company had initially envisioned. Instead, Angle looked like a relentless machine and McMahon proved yet again why he's one of the toughest son-b*tches in the game.

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