10 Worst Pyro Blunders In Wrestling History

7. We Don’t Need No Water, Let The Motherf**ker Burn

The main event of Wrestlemania 33 didn’t really go how people wanted it to.

It was planned to be the grand emotional farewell to Smokey Robinson, with him taking one last L at the show of shows before undressing down to his cock and bollocks, leaving his clothes out for the maid and retiring through the floor.

That did not happen, many parties were unsatisfied with the quality of Taker’s supposed last ride, and even the fates themselves showed their displeasure by setting the actual stage on fire.

Taker’s entrance and exit always require a lot of flames, because how else would you know he’s dead, and as the pomp and circumstance raged, one of the burners caused the set to catch fire, belching a huge plume of black smoke into the air, which of course the fans in attendance were happy to immortalize on Twitter.

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6. Don’t Scare Cody’s Dog (All Out 2019)

No, I’m serious, don’t scare Cody’s dog, that’s not cool.

Cody Rhodes has a bloody EXCELLENT dog called Pharoah, the goodest of all possible boys, a snow wolf inhabited with the souls of a thousand noble samurai, and AEW startled him with loud pyro and that is inexcusable.

It was All Out 2019 and Cody was wrestling Shawn Spears.

As Cody made his entrance, he was accompanied by the best dog in the history of dogs, when mortars (aka the very loud big bang pyro) accidentally fired, spooking poor Pharoah who was visibly freaking out but still had to go through with the rest of the entrance.

And man, EVERYONE was pissed about this botch. Cody was angry, Brandi was apparently furious, Tony Khan was upset, because of course they were, someone scared Pharaoh and men have died for less.

For real though, pyro is serious business and even if no one gets hurt, the wrong effects going off puts lives at risk, case in point.

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5. They Nearly Burn Undertaker’s Entire F**king Head 

Hello again Undertaker, pyrotechnicians are NOT FINISHED WITH YOU.

So it’s July 1998, and the opening match of Monday Night Raw pits Vader against Shoulderpad Smoulderdad, who stands at the corner turnbuckle as he has done many many times before.

Normally taker raises his arms and the lights go from crime scene blue to normal houselights, because magic. What happens this time, is Kane’s pyro goes off RIGHT IN TAKERS GODDAMN FACE.

That’s not cool, that’s the opposite of cool. Genuinely, how do you almost burn off the face that haunts the place, jeez Taker looks rightfully pissed, but thankfully he emerged from the incident unscathed, and Undertaker never had problems with pyro again, the end.

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4. Oh, TNA… Catches Fire (Hard Justice 06)

There is something very TNA about setting fire to your own arena at the very beginning of a pay-per-view forcing wrestlers to go shoot promos in the parking lot.

Somewhere the ghost of WCW was watching on, going ‘that’s my boy’. So, during the Hard Justice 2006 pay-per-view, a sack in the rafters was set on fire by the show’s opening pyro, TNA sabotaging itself literally at the very first possible moment of the night.

In order to extinguish the fire, dry powder was dumped into the arena, during the opening match between Eric Young and Johnny Devine.

Like absolute pros, or, like people who don’t really have their priorities right when you think about it, Eric and Johnny finished up their match and the entire audience politely filed outside while Marshalls made sure the show was safe to continue.  

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