WWE: 18 Embarrassing Wrestling Move Fails

2. Shooting Star Mess

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Brock Lesnar gained a reputation in OVW as a future WWE Champion not simply because of his wrestling pedigree or his freakish size and strength, but also because of his amazing athleticism. There aren't many 300 pound NCAA wrestling champions who can perform a Shooting Star Press, but sure enough, Brock would finish his opponents with the maneuver before being called up to the big leagues. When he arrived in WWE, though, the move hardly fit his monstrous character. Once he turned babyface, though, and WrestleMania loomed, fans who had seen videos of the feat knew what to expect. Lesnar clashed with Olympic gold medalist Kurt Angle in the main event of the show, and sought to finish off his rival with the aerial move in what would have been a true WrestleMania moment. Instead, Angle was too far away and Brock under-rotated, causing the big man to land on his face. A man with the neck of a human being might have been paralyzed or worse, but Brock Lesnar's bull-like neck allowed him to get up, defeat Kurt Angle, and leave the ring under his own power as the new WWE Champion. Lesnar suffered a concussion, but it could have been much, much worse €“ instead, it stands as just another occasion in which Brock terrified us all.

1. The Amazing Adventures of Sin Cara, Part IV

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28A2xkJIGys (watch above video at 0:39) Sin Cara would keep getting hurt following the creation of his team with Rey Mysterio, missing time in the winter of 2012 and spring of 2013. By the time he returned in May, Mysterio was himself out injured and Sin Cara was hanging onto his job by a thread €“ after all, even the prideful McMahons have their limits. It was all but certain that the luchador would be gone from the company when his contract expired in early 2014. Still, he was a merchandise mover €“ replicas of his mask were selling great overseas and with kids. For that reason, WWE half-heartedly brought him back onto TV, giving him wins over low-level talent, losses to uppercard heels like Alberto Del Rio, and no storylines whatsoever. Where there's life, there's hope, and perhaps Sin Cara had the chance to redeem himself. In a match with Alberto Del Rio on the August 19, 2013 edition of Raw, Sin Cara and Del Rio tangled once more. Less than a minute into the match, Sin Cara dove out of the ring with a flying headbutt onto Del Rio, catching his fingers between their skulls and dislocating a digit. Sin Cara crumpled to the floor and immediately called the referee over, demanding he stop the match. Needless to say, this didn't go over well. Del Rio angrily beat up Sin Cara after the match and Triple H, who once finished a match with a fully torn quadriceps muscle, had seen enough. Mistico would never appear on WWE TV again. Which isn't to say Sin Cara's story was over, though €“ remember, the mask was money. Once again, it fell to Hunico to take it up. He can be seen wrestling with the gimmick on B-level WWE shows each and every week. Mistico, meanwhile, has returned to Mexico, where he has vowed to keep using the Sin Cara name, claiming he owns it €“ a fitting turn of events for the master of the mid-match mishap.
 
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Scott Fried is a Slammy Award-winning* writer living and working in New York City. He has been following/writing about professional wrestling for many years and is a graduate of Lance Storm's Storm Wrestling Academy. Follow him on Twitter at https://twitter.com/scottfried. *Best Crowd of the Year, 2013