2. Scott Steiner vs Road Warrior Animal vs Sid vs Jeff Jarrett – WCW Sin
Some matches are bad because the in-ring quality or the story is so bad fans want to forget what they saw. This match was bad because one wrestler suffered an injury so gruesome it overshadowed everything else.
Going into this match, the WCW bookers wanted Sid, a super heavyweight, to do a move off the top rope. Sid was reluctant to do so because he was so damn big and a diving moves were too risky for him. But somehow they won the argument, which led to Sid hitting a diving big boot. In other words, he dove off the top rope and all of his weight was supposed to land on one leg.
Check out which wrestler EC3 finds cute RIGHT HERE
What happened instead (which was also expected) was that Sid’s left ankle snapped completely due to the force of 300 pounds of weight landing on it. The camera caught a shot of Sid’s left ankle bent almost 90 degrees to the left, in a disgusting, unnatural position.
It was one of the worst wrestling injuries in history required Sid to have major surgery afterwards. Yet while that surgery did fix Sid’s leg to some degree, not even the greatest of surgeons could save WCW by this point in time.