#2 Samoa Joe
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In June 2015, Tyson Kidd faced Samoa Joe in a hastily arranged dark match before an episode of Raw. The former Tag Team champion suffered a serious spinal cord injury while taking Joe’s Muscle Buster finisher and he was told the next day that his wrestling career was over.
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Since then, Kidd has transitioned into a role behind the scenes with WWE, where he now works as a producer, while Joe's Coquina Clutch submission is now his go-to finishing move instead of the Muscle Buster.
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Kidd told SLAM! Wrestling:
"I'd never worked Joe before. I'd of course seen him. I'm a student of the game, I've seen everybody. But I'd never physically worked him. When we landed on the Muscle Buster, I saw the whitest light I've ever seen. I thought it was a concussion for a second. I remember thinking, 'Man, I did this whole match, completely on the fly, I pulled it off and then I get rocked at the end.'"
Edited by Amar Anand