10 WWE-Like Moments In Real Sport
2. Basketball - Kansas Vs. Kansas State (2020)
Many a heelish wrestler or hardcore warrior has experienced approaching a rival equipped with steel chair, but instead of the predictable strike, we would see the weapon grasped by their opponent, and turned back on them.
There have been some real moments of shocking violence in basketball. For example in 2004, Ron Artest would lead a troop of Indiana Pacers players in brawling amongst the the crowd. Things at the intensely contested Kansas vs. Kansas State college game in 2020 almost got very, very bad. A huge fight broke out after an over-zealous piece of defensive work, leading to Silvio De Sousa lifting a nearby chair and attempting to clatter his opposite numbers with it. Luckily for the player, he was simply disarmed by coaches at the last minute, rather than suffer a full reversal of the move.
De Sousa and others would be sanctioned heavily, and wrestling too is increasingly aware of the long-term damage caused by these kinds of strikes, with it being slowly phased out of the industry.