WWE: 4 Freak Wrestling Injuries

Everybody knows that pro wrestling is a very dangerous sport. The results may be scripted but the risks are real. Wrestlers put their bodies and health on the line every time they step into the ring. Injuries are a part of the business that wrestlers and fans hate.

Many fan favorites have had time on the shelf due to injury. Daniel Bryan recently returned from a almost career ending injury and lost around three years of his wrestling career. Shawn Michaels was out for five years with a lower back injury.

There are some common injuries in wrestling. Separated/dislocated shoulders, torn ACL's and broken ankles are all injuries that wrestlers have had over the years. However, there has been some weird and unusual injuries in wrestling. They are unusual in the sense that they don't happen very often in wrestling and some are unusual because of how they happened.

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#4. Joey Mercury breaks his face

What a squashed face looks like

This is an example of a freak accident that can happen in a wrestling match. At Armageddon 2006, Paul London and Brian Kendrick defended their Tag Team Championships against The Hardy Boys, MNM (Johnny Nitro and Joey Mercury) and William Regal and Dave Taylor in a fatal four way ladder match. When you involve dangerous weapons like ladders into a match the chances of getting injured are much higher.

During the match Mercury got hit directly on the nose and orbital bone with a ladder. His face basically exploded. He was a bloody mess within seconds and his face became unrecognizable. One eyes was swollen shut and the other was beginning to swell.

He broke his nose in three places, broke his orbital bone, and received fifteen stitches. It was a freak injury that would ultimately cost Mercury his job because he became addicted to pain medication after the injury.

Injuries happen in ladder matches but rarely do you see an injury with such a sudden impact and making someone look disfigured in a split second.

#3. Sid snaps his leg

A grotesque leg break

This is one of the most famous botches ever and possibly the most graphic injury in wrestling history. It happened on January 14th 2001 when WCW held their "Sin" pay-per-view. Sid was in the main event, a four corners match for the WCW World Heavyweight Championship along with Jeff Jarrett, Scott Steiner and Road Warrior Animal.

During the match, Sid took to the middle rope to deliver a jumping boot to Steiner. Sid has said before that he was under pressure from WCW management to attempt moves from the top rope. They wanted him to present himself as a more dynamic performer.

Sid felt that because he was nearly seven feet tall that he did not need to use those type of moves. However, for some reason Sid decided to attempt a move from the middle rope in this match.

He jumped from the middle rope and delivered a boot to Scott Steiner. All of his weight landed on one leg and it snapped underneath him. He broke his tibia and fibula immediately and the crowd looked on in horror as his leg pointed in the wrong direction.

It was silly for WCW to try to get Sid to attempt those type of moves in the first place. Sid spent years rehabbing the injury and his wrestling ability was never the same.

#2. Vince tears both his quads

McMahon sitting in the ring after tearing his quads

While I am in no way celebrating the fact that Vince McMahon was injured in this incident, it is one of the funniest and most bizarre moments in WWE history. It happened at the 2005 Royal Rumble pay-per-view.

The finish of the Royal Rumble match saw Batista and John Cena survive to become the final two. They both fell over the ropes and hit the floor at the same time, causing confusion among the fans and referees. The Smackdown referees were claiming that Cena had won the match and the RAW refs were saying that Batista was the winner.

Vince's music hit and he marched to the ring in disgust. But, as McMahon slid into the ring he hit both his legs off the ring apron and tore both his quadriceps muscles instantly. He attempted to stand up but fell back against the ropes.

He tried to keep his air of authority but the shots of his confused and baffled face were hilarious. He ordered the match to be restarted and Batista eventually won.

Fans will always remember seeing the all-powerful Vince McMahon sitting helplessly against the ropes with his hands on his hips, in-front of thousands of people.

#1. X-Pac tears his anus

X-Pac

There is not better or nicer way to put it. While working a Jerry Lynn tribute show, X-Pac went to hit his signature Bronco Buster but after his opponent moved out of the way X-Pac slammed into the turnbuckle. It was a simple spot he had done thousands of times before and nothing had ever gone wrong.

X-Pac didn't notice anything until he finished the match and went back to the locker room. He had a huge puddle of blood in his singlet. He was taken to hospital in an ambulance. It turned out that he had torn his anus and required emergency sphincteroplasty.

This is probably the weirdest injury that will ever happen to a wrestler. You know that when you have to question how somebody could even do something like that or if its even possible, that it is really unusual. X-Pac has said himself that there was no serious damage caused by the injury.