20 Most Horrifically Stupid Things That Ever Happened In WCW

16. Terry Funk Is Kicked By A Horse

On the 31 May 2000 episode of WCW Thunder, former NWA World Heavyweight Champion and true wrestling legend Terry Funk took on perennially underrated talent Chris Candido in a hardcore match. The action couldn't be contained by the arena, and soon spilled across the street to a local horse stable (they were in Boise , after all). The men brawled with weapons and debris in the dirt, and before long, Candido shoved Funk's face into a wheelbarrow full of manure.

The match left the realm of harmless stupidity, though, when Funk and Candido opened up an actual section of the stable and brawled into it, in full view of a horse. Funk nailed Candido with a Piledriver in the dirt and the horse, spooked, reared back and kicked Terry Funk in the side. Luckily, Funk was unhurt (he got to his feet and began cursing at the horse), but had he been kicked in the head or neck, the results could have been catastrophic. The pure recklessness with which WCW treated its talent - all for an attempt at a cheap laugh - qualifies as monumentally stupid.

This wasn't the first time WCW failed to consider the well-being of its employees. Earlier in 2000, an angle was shot where then-WCW World Heavyweight Champion Bret Hart rode a monster truck over a limousine containing number one contender Sid Vicious. As Hart later revealed in his column for the Calgary Sun, he was initially asked to actually drive the truck, while Sid legitimately waited in the limo. It was left to Hart - suffering from a severe concussion and memory loss at the time - to suggest that perhaps a stunt driver should pilot the truck, and perhaps Vicious didn't need to actually wait in the car. Thankfully, in that situation, somebody had a brain.