7 Giant Lies Told By Wrestling That Will Definitely Kill You

4. Jumping From Obscene Heights Only Makes You A Bad-Ass

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Fire up YouTube, search for something generic like "backyard wrestling" and prepare to see some utter idiot break his/her tailbone by attempting to leg drop off the top of their shed through a table. Looks cool, right? Hmm, not quite. Said morons should leave the giant leaps to the pros.

Wrestling has a lot to answer for here, because it has encouraged the thought process that jumping off high places looks damn cool and doesn't result in serious injury. Even when it does land someone in hospital for storyline reasons, there are no broken bones sticking out of legs or anguished screams of pain when they land.

These people need to stop what they're doing. Not everybody can be Shane McMahon, after all.

Without proper padding, controlled circumstances and a lot of preparation, Shane's past dives (from atop Hell In A Cell or from the entrance scaffolding) would kill him and possibly the person he's jumping on. The human body is hardly designed to survive falling 30ft plus without serious or fatal injury.

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