10 necks bumps which are too nasty to watch twice

#3 Kenta Kobashi gets dropped on his neck three times in a row

Japanese wrestlers are known for being inhumanly tough, but Kenta Kobashi might be the standard bearer for them all. Once described as ‘the perfect wrestler’ Kobashi excelled in taking inhuman amounts of punishment just as much as he was at dishing it out. To prove this, he took an insane amount of bumps over the years, including several devastating ones on his neck.

In a match against ‘Dr. Death’ Steve Williams in 1993, Kobashi found himself out-powered by the Oklahoma native when Dr Death nailed Kobashi with one of his finishers, the Dangerous Backdrop. This is basically a super-high-angle Back Suplex, where the victim lands on their head and neck. Kobashi took three of these in a row.

Each one of these Dangerous Backdrops lived up to the name, but it was the second one that was the most disturbing of them all. If you listen carefully, you can hear two distinct ‘thuds’ in quick succession, with the first being the sound of Kobashi’s head landing on the mat before the rest of his body.

To prove just how insanely tough he was, Kobashi got up from that second and most vicious Backdrop only seconds afterwards, desperate to crawl to the ropes. Although he lost the match, he showed the entire world exactly why he was such a great wrestler when he survived three devastating neck bumps in quick succession.