Vader and Stan Hansen were two guys who just loved beating the hell out of their opponents.
On the one hand you had Stan Hansen, a loud crazy Texan...
Renowned for his stiff wrestling style
and Vader, a highly accomplished super-heavyweight also renowned for his stiff wrestling style.
An interpromotional match at New Japan Pro Wrestling’s Super Fight in the Tokyo Dome
in 1990 saw the two men go to blows for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship. The match was
a slugfest leaving Vader with a broken nose and notably a nasty exchange which saw the
two men throw legitimate punches at each other causing Vader’s eye to pop out of his socket.
Here’s a tip for any wrestler, do not under any circumstances provoke The Beast…
Braun Strowman found this out the hard way. Not long into a triple threat match between Brock
Lesnar, Braun Strowman and Kane at the 2018 Royal Rumble, Braun Strowman delivered a very
stiff knee to the side of Brock Lesnar’s head. This caused Lesnar to explode with rage
and give Strowman a receipt of his own, connecting a legit right-hand punch to Strowman’s temple
which sent the big man on wobbly legs. Braun Strowman went from “Get These Hands” to
“I Got These Hands.”
During a taping of WWF Metal, Perry Saturn took on enhancement talent Mike Bell in a
regular singles match. However, a botched armdrag which caused Saturn to land on his
head would change the entire complexity of the match...
Saturn snapped and began legitimately
attacking Bell before throwing him out of the ring causing him to land head first on
the concrete mat. Saturn was punished by management for his unprofessionalism and was given a
gimmick which saw him develop feelings for a mop…
That wasn’t until the mop aptly named Moppy was murdered…
I bet you didn’t expect to see New Jack on this list, did you?
In 2003, at a small indie event in Tennessee,
New Jack took on 69-year-old hardcore legend Gypsy Joe in a
hardcore match. Gypsy Joe was billed as “the man who feels no pain” and that may actually
be true after the beating he took from New Jack. The match started off well until Gypsy
Joe began no selling New Jack’s moves as well as headbutting him in the nose. What
followed next was a vicious ugly beatdown which saw New Jack legitimately attack Gypsy
Joe with a chain as well as hit him in the head with baseball bat wrapped in barbed wire…
The match was called off due to “unnecessary roughness.” The dude actually got himself
DQ’ed in a no DQ match...
The best way to describe Antonio Inoki as Eric Bischoff put it is that he was the “Vince
McMahon of Japan.”
Inoki had unbelievable star power in Japan during the 70s up until
his retirement in the late 90s. He fought Muhammad Ali in an exhibition match that ended
in a draw as well as headlining the Collision in Korea pay per view which holds the record
for the largest ever attendance for a wrestling event at 190,000. But one of Inoki’s matches
in particular against former strongman The Great Antonio showed Inoki was not one to
mess with. In this match, The Great Antonio began no-selling Inoki’s attacks as well
as stiffing him which caused Inoki to snap. Inoki unleashed a series of legitimate rights
and lefts to his opponent before kicking him in the face which left fat Antonio lying in
a bloody mess.