7 Violent Brawls Better Than WWE Raw's Ambulance Match

4. Homicide Vs. Steve Corino - Ring Of Honor (USA) - 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gsfc1XKs1J8 So, yeah. A match where the finish is so out-of-control where "fans" jump the guardrail and start a riot? Yeah. Homicide and Steve Corino's feud in Ring of Honor from 2002-2004 was the stuff of independent wrestling legend, mainly because of things like this. Homicide isn't just a former TNA X Division and Tag Team Champion. He's also the trainer of Low-Ki (aka, one-time WWE performer Kaval) and literally 30 other performers, too. As well, he's also a proud resident of "Bed-Stuy, Do-or-Die" Brooklyn, New York. As well, Steve Corino isn't just a former ECW, NWA and AWA World Heavyweight Champion. He's also was at one time a Northeast independent staple, and in 2003 was that yet again, as well as being a proud resident of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also, toss onto the fire that heading back into history, Philly's ECW Arena fans and the fans at Queens, New York's "Madhouse of Extreme" the Elks Lodge really didn't get along either. Philly was considered the long-time home base of the promotion, but Queens fans were arguably as (or more) passionate about the ECW product. By this point in this blood feud, Corino had lost some of his hearing, Homicide losing respect for Corino, and they had already wrestled in a no-ropes barbed wire match. Thus, when Philly-residing Corino entered Queens, New York alongside his "group" stable that included Michael Shane and Samoa Joe, too - to borrow a quote from Jim Ross - "business about to pick up." When Homicide lost to Corino, Corino refused to break his cobra sleeper finisher. Suddenly, in a worked shoot moment, literally every wrestler not wrestling in Ring of Honor that Homicide had, was or in some cases was considering training jumped the guardrail. The brawl that ensues is epic and involves what are in theory fans assaulting wrestlers and vice versa. Shattering one of pro wrestling's cardinal rules for the sake of getting over an angle is risque. But if we view so much of what Ring of Honor did as being an attempt by Paul Heyman's disciples to extend ECW's legacy, then it makes sense. Having been there live, this journalist can vouch for the mayhem.