8 Most devastating career-ending injuries in wrestling history

#4 Sid breaks his leg in an awful way

This is what happens when wrestling promoters tell wrestlers to do things those wrestlers don't want to do

Sid was never meant to go off the top rope. As a tall, super-heavyweight-class grappler, he was best suited to lifting smaller opponents up and slamming them to the ground. Yet for some strange reason, WCW’s bookers thought it would be a great idea for the 300-plus-pounder to add some aerial manoeuvres to his arsenal.

This led to Sid reluctantly attempting a diving attack at WCW’s Sin PPV in 2001. Sid jumped off the top rope, landing pretty much on one leg, and awkwardly at that. The angle of the landing coupled with all of his body weight falling onto one leg caused his foot to snap in half, fracturing both his tibia and fibula.

It was a disturbing injury that was utterly gruesome to watch on PPV and left any people groaning in shock and disgust. This injury forced Sid into retirement and served as a painful reminder why bigger wrestlers rarely to diving moves (unless their name is Kane).