10 Amazing Wrestling Moments That Were Complete Accidents

7. Hey Baby I Hear The Boos A Calling (Seattle Crowd)

Seattle is famous for three things, rain, Frasier and one of the greatest crowd hijacks in the history of live entertainment.

The 9th of December 2013 saw Raw come to Washington, home state of Daniel Bryan who just so happened to be the hottest thing in wrestling at the time.

Despite WWE trying to sideline him from the main event and promote Cena vs. Orton for the 800th time, or rather because of it, during a Championship Ascension ceremony ahead of TLC, the fans completely hijacked the segment, ignoring the authority, Orton, all of the former champions in the ring and cheering full-throat for Daniel Bryan.

It’s an astonishing segment to watch, it goes completely off the rails, Triple H has to stop talking multiple times to let the fans finishing chanting, Mark Henry gets one of the biggest pops of his life by raising Bryan’s hand, and Cena even has to crowbar a quick Daniel Bryan interview in there because why not, script’s dead roll with it.

And through it all, Daniel Bryan’s face, his happy, happy face as his home fans did their part in a movement that would steamroll the American Dragon to the main event of WrestleMania.

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6. Hell Through The Cell

There are few matches more synonymous with wrestling than the Hell in a Cell match between Mankind and The Undertaker at King of the Ring 1998.

A perfect blend of character work, game-changing stunts, iconic commentary and real-life and wrestling blurring together in heart-stoppingly compelling television. Mick Foley flying from the top of the cell through the announce table, that was planned.

Mick Foley being chokeslammed through the cell, was not. So here’s what was supposed to happen, Foley was to take a purposely weak chokeslam, the cell would buckle, open on one side, and Foley would roll through taking a much softer bump to the ring below.

That did not happen. Instead, all the cable ties broke, the section of the roof flew open and Foley took a full-force drop to the canvas, briefly knocking him out.

Much worse for Mick than it should have been? Absolutely. Much more memorable and cool-looking than the originally planned spot? Almost definitely.

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5. HB-KO

We can’t bloody shut up about Chris Jericho and Shawn Michael’s 2008 feud. It’s one of the best-paced, carefully plotted and satisfying executed stories in WWE history, featuring a whole raft of memorable moments.

Jericho smashing Michaels through the JeriTron, the last proper blade job of the ruthless aggression era at the Bash, the tug of war over the World Heavyweight title at the top of the ladder, and, of course, Shawn Michaels fake retiring at SummerSlam, only to immediately return for WIFE-BASED VENGEANCE.

See Michael was saying a tearful cross-eyed goodbye accompanied by his wife, when it was interrupted by still the best ever version of Chris Jericho. One thing led to another and Y2J swung at HBK but hit Rebecca instead.

It was supposed to be a worked punch, because yeah of course, but Jericho accidentally hit her flush in the mouth, and look you don’t wish for accidents like these, but man.

WWE know how to use them when they get them. The shot of Rebecca’s lip, hugely swollen, a trace of blood in her mouth, elevated it from an angle that could have felt super corny and poorly acted, into something real and awful and wonderful.

Backstage Chris was understandably bricking himself, until Rebecca said to him in front of everyone ‘that the best you got, Jericho’. A class act.

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4. He Caught The Kendo

Nothing like a good catch to make a crowd go wheeey, I’m reliably informed that cricket and baseball depend on such things stopping them from being the world’s more boring games.

Wrestling’s had a fair share of wheeey catches. Lance Storm catching the streamer at WrestleCon, Aiden English catching a rose thrown by a fan in NXT (wheey), Bobby Heenan catching Mr. Perfect’s towel at the 1991 Rumble, wheey and best of all, during a random match between The Wyatt Family and the Dudley Boys on the December 14 episode of Raw in 2015.

The late great Luke Harper threw down a kendo stick, to the mat, which bounced to the outside, Bubba Ray caught it in mid-air and immediately used it to go on a hot-fire kendo attack. Whey. Just wonderful moments you could never hope to plan but fill life with joy.

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