7 Career-threatening Botches in WWE

#4 Joey Mercury gets busted in the nose

2006 saw a bizarre ladder match that included MNM (Joey Mercury and Johnny Nitro), The Hardy Boyz, Willian Regal, and Dave Taylor, and Paul London and Brian Kendrick.

All wrestlers are trained how to take blows and protect key parts of their bodies, including their faces. However, Joey Mercury was the unlucky wrestler in this match who wasn’t able to protect himself.

A ladder was set up in a manner that when Jeff Hardy would jump on it from the top rope, it would flip upward to hit both members of MNM in the face. However, Joey wasn’t able to protect his face with his arms in time, and this resulted in the ladder actually hitting his face.

Blood poured out onto the ring, as Joey was immediately taken from ringside to the hospital where it was declared he only suffered a broken nose from what could have been worse. Thankfully, there was no other serious damage to his face and he returned weeks later to compete again.