When moves go horribly wrong...

[Guest]

i'm sort of suprised no one has mentioned this, as it seems to be the most gruesome of fuck-ups, but remember when New Jack tried to super-something Vic Grimes off of scaffolding? I'm being kind when I say Grimes was about 350 pounds at the time, and landed ass-first on New Jack's head.

 

Nevermortal, the number of times I've watched that missed senton on tape must be in 4 digits by now. And then Whipreck rolls him back into the ring and hits a double underhook piledriver.

 

And while we're bashing Taker, let's not forget the many times he's gone for a Last Ride, tipped over, and almost dropped the poor bastard head-first over the ropes.

[Guest Army Eye]

Since January most of the times Nash, Hogan, Hall, Taker, and Big Show tried to take an over the tope rope bump. Also, I think Flair has only done the flip in the corner right one time since he's been back.

There was a great one by Nash early on in the NWO run.  It was at the end of a Raw or Smackdown, the spot was Austin clotheslining Nash over the top rope, they did it but Nash didn't quite make it over, instead he got about halfway and slooooowly fell back into the ring, onto his feet, then started to do some kind of strange convulsions to try to boost himself back out over the top, while trying to make it look he was still stunned or whatever.  Awkward doesn't begin to describe it.

[Guest alfdogg]

Since January most of the times Nash, Hogan, Hall, Taker, and Big Show tried to take an over the tope rope bump. Also, I think Flair has only done the flip in the corner right one time since he's been back.

There was a great one by Nash early on in the NWO run.  It was at the end of a Raw or Smackdown, the spot was Austin clotheslining Nash over the top rope, they did it but Nash didn't quite make it over, instead he got about halfway and slooooowly fell back into the ring, onto his feet, then started to do some kind of strange convulsions to try to boost himself back out over the top, while trying to make it look he was still stunned or whatever.  Awkward doesn't begin to describe it.

I remember that too.  Someone on here started a thread about how useless he was after it happened.  It was pretty funny.

[Guest]

Fucked up chokeslam #9

 

Undertaker slamming Tommy Dreamer... tonight

[Guest]

I'm gonna have to throw in another 2 cents (bringing my donations to this thread up to 4 i believe) and say anytime my main morbidly obese Samoan Yokozuna went up for the Banzai drop...and the f'n ropes gave. Dunno if that was planned or not but it sure was fun seeing such horror in a 800 pound man's eyes.

 

And since Taker is fun to mock, I shall also note a house show classic as he fought the dreaded Test. Taker had the chokeslam locked and loaded or so Test thought. Taker was still playing to the crowd as Test slammed himself down in one of the more bizarre in ring moments ever. Taker, being the pro that he is said something to the effect of "dumb fuck" then picked him up and did it the proper way.

[Guest Redhawk]

Remember when Kurt Angle beat Rhyno for the US title? During that match, Rhyno kicked Angle in the gut and then came off the ropes for what looked like it was supposed to be a swinging neckbreaker. Well, someone fucked something up, because they both went flying back as if the other one had done the neckbreaker. Rhyno immediately hit the chinlock so they could get their shit together.

 

Ric Flair beat Vader at Starrcade 1993 with one of the worst looking finishing moves ever. He was supposed to clip Vader's knee and roll him up, but Flair just kind of rolled into the back of Vader's leg, and Vader took like 4 seconds to fall down.

 

I remember when Hogan hit the legdrop with the wrong leg. When he and the NWO beat Rock and Austin, Hogan landed on Rock so that his right leg was across Rock's neck and the left leg was like on his stromach.

 

I like when the babyface does the Rapid-Fire Punches in the Corner thing, and the heel aaccidentally sells like two more punches after the babyface has stopped punching.

[Guest CED Ordonez]

Surprised nobody's brought up Jericho during his most infamous era, botching the missile dropkick badly during his PPV match with Rhyno. He slips off the top turnbuckle and almost drops straight down and Rhyno looks legitimately pissed as he mounts Jericho and gets a few punches in a futile attempt to cover it up.

 

Gratuitous Undertaker F-Up: Taker hoists up Rock for a Last Ride on a Raw and Rock slips and it looks like a Ganzo Bomb until Taker aborts and they do it again. J.R. covers saying Rock tried to power out.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Mandatory Taker Fuck Up: SummerSlam 1997. Bret sets up taker for super-plex and Taker slips groin first on the ring post. Classic.

 

This is isn't really a fuck up, but during his match with Austin at Summer Slam 98, he let out this really loud "Ooohp!" in the middle of the match that had me rolling on the floor.

 

Oh and there was a situation where he chokeslammed Rock (1998?) with Rock almost taking the bump on top of his head, but that was probably mostly Rock's fault.

 

Another move gone horribly wrong: Summer Slam 2000. HHH goes to Pedigree Kurt Angle on the S. A. Table and the table collapses mid-move. Devastating. Kurt was out, I believe, most of the match.

[Guest Muzz]

When Johnny the Bull recieved a monkey flip, and broke his ankle. I can't remember if he did that once or twice.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Oh and the series of blown spots during SuperBrawl 2001. Just brutal.

[Guest Anglesault]

Taker, being the pro that he is said something to the effect of "dumb fuck" then picked him up and did it the proper way.

That's nicer than I would have been to Test (If I was Taker, of course)

[Guest]

Also, I think Flair has only done the flip in the corner right one time since he's been back.

 

Twice (and possibly more), actually. He did an incredibly weak one during his "Legends" match with Hogan a couple of weeks ago, and he did a slightly better one during his match with Vince at the Royal Rumble.

 

As far as botched moves go, I have fond memories of a Rhyno-Edge match last year, where Rhyno--during his US Title reign--went to powerbomb Edge, and simply dropped him on his ass. I don't know why I remember that so clearly, but I do.

[Guest]

Oh and another, which isn't so much of a fuck up as it is a "the hell?" It was during the Taker/Kane vs Kronic match and Taker got the hot tag. He charged in with punches, and screamed something that too me sounded like "Meaaat!" I have no idea what he truly said, but i shall continue to pretend it was a shout out to his chaffeur, Shawn Stasiak. (Oh come on, you know he's got them all doing something. I hear O'Haire refused to wipe his ass and that got him demoted Chuck on the other hand...)

 

Classic Test fuck up: Anytime he makes it all too obvious he's really just slapping the piss out of his pants instead of actually making contact with the boot.

[Guest]

Anytime Taker tried to Wedgiebomb and nearly dropped them. He fucked it up most famously with Test, but the Rock and Flair have been victims of it, too.

 

Maven blowing his one goddamn move (the dropkick) at Wrestlemania, but Goldust sold it, anyway. You know it's bad when JR says, "I don't know how much of that he got..."

 

The Jericho-Pitbull #2-Shane Douglas-2 Cold Scorpio TV title match in ECW. Pitbull sends Jericho to the corner, and Jericho, assuming Pitbull was coming after him, does that leaping bit. Of course, Pitbull was stupidly staring at Jericho from across the ring, so Jericho fell on his face. I don't think I explained that very well, but for those who've seen the match, you know what I mean.

[Guest]

Since January most of the times Nash, Hogan, Hall, Taker, and Big Show tried to take an over the tope rope bump. Also, I think Flair has only done the flip in the corner right one time since he's been back.

 

I remember one by Mr. Perfect also. I forgot who he was wrestling, might've been a Hardy Boy. But Perfect gets hit fairly close to the center of the ring, nowhere close to where he needs to be, so he takes a short run and simply hops over the top rope. Yet another Perfect botch, was where the Hardyz faced off against Bossman and Perfect (in fact, I think I'm getting his opponents mixed up now). The Hardyz had Perfect in the corner and they went for the Poetry in Motion. Before Jeff reaches Perfect, he jumps over the top rope prematurely and sells, with Ross I think playing it off like Perfect dodged the move. Anyone remember either of these two events?

 

When Johnny the Bull recieved a monkey flip, and broke his ankle. I can't remember if he did that once or twice.

 

I remember that one. Once again, I forget who else was in the match, but JtB recieves a Monkey Flip out of the corner, and when he landed his ankle rolled over.

 

And two pages into the thread, no one's mentioned the D'lo/Droz blown spot. Everyone already knows about it, but just a refresher....D'lo goes for his Running Power Bomb out of the corner, he slips (whether it was from a piece of paper underneath him or not) and Droz winds up paralyzed.

[Guest]

And two pages into the thread, no one's mentioned the D'lo/Droz blown spot. Everyone already knows about it, but just a refresher....D'lo goes for his Running Power Bomb out of the corner, he slips (whether it was from a piece of paper underneath him or not) and Droz winds up paralyzed.

 

I thought D'lo tripped over his own feet.

[Guest Anglesault]

And two pages into the thread, no one's mentioned the D'lo/Droz blown spot. Everyone already knows about it, but just a refresher....D'lo goes for his Running Power Bomb out of the corner, he slips (whether it was from a piece of paper underneath him or not) and Droz winds up paralyzed.

You would think that would get D-Lo to stop doing to damn move. Or atleast to stop dropping people while doing it, but he dropped GMS midmove at Royal Rumble '00 and GMS saved his own ass by pullingout a backflip (Not really a Hurricanranna)

[Guest alfdogg]

He almost did it to Val Venis at SummerSlam98 too.

 

No one has mentioned the Hardy's dropkick spot at the 2001 Rumble, either.

[Guest Kahran Ramsus]

No one has mentioned the Hardy's dropkick spot at the 2001 Rumble, either.

 

That's because it was both bad and forgettable, much like the Hardys themselves.

[Guest Just call me Dan]

Definetly very unfortunate yet funny was Foley at WM2000 when he goes for the second rope elbow to the outside on the announce table and falls a bit short.

 

Vince botched the SHIT out of a Stunner at the end of one Raw when there were multiple run ins and Austin grabbed him, Vince fell, tried to get up in the middle of the move and just fell. Great.

 

I think JR's first was hporrible too, when Austin went down JR jumped up ended up flipping over the front and fucking his neck up.

[Guest Ravenbomb]

I think it was Crash vs Raven and Crash didn't throw Raven right into part of the stage or something, but Raven sold it anyways, but JR said "Well that wasn't even close!"

WTF!?

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

I think JR's first was hporrible too, when Austin went down JR jumped up ended up flipping over the front and fucking his neck up.

Wasn't that Slaughter?

[Guest WildPegasusXXII]

Another ECW classic...mentioned in Foley's book...JT Smith going for a plancha or some sort, slipping, and landing on his head on the concrete floor.

 

I heard reports a few years ago that at a house show in boston, the Undertaker went for his suicide dive thing he does on PPVs, and caught his foot on the rop and landed face first on the floor.

 

I swear when Justin Credible first came into the WWF as JC, I watched him try to superkick someone as they jumped off the top rope at him, but he kicked a little early and got them square in the nuts.

[Guest Big McLargeHuge]

Chris Benoit...Sabu...Backdrop...Broken Neck. Nuff said.

[Guest Black Tiger]

RVD vs Eddy on RAW. RVD climbs up for the ***** Frog Splash and the damn ladder fell, while RVD was on the top on it.

 

E&C vs Hardyz, SummerSlam '99. Matt sends Edge into the rail and he starts to run accross it, Jeff is doing the same thing on the other side of the ring. Edge TRIES to spear him in mid air but Jeff was running too fast and Edge barley touched him.

 

Angle vs Shane KOR 2001. Angle had to suplex him through two glass walls, twice EACH.

[Guest]

Shouldn't there be a "Wrestling's Greatest Bloopers" tape or something?

[Guest Smeghead]

The Jericho-Pitbull #2-Shane Douglas-2 Cold Scorpio TV title match in ECW. Pitbull sends Jericho to the corner, and Jericho, assuming Pitbull was coming after him, does that leaping bit. Of course, Pitbull was stupidly staring at Jericho from across the ring, so Jericho fell on his face. I don't think I explained that very well, but for those who've seen the match, you know what I mean.

I do know what you're talking about, but I think that was supposed to happen.  It looked to me like that spot was planned out that way.  I'll have to watch it again.  Maybe you saw something I didn't.

 

There are a couple of times where I've seen RVD jump onto the top turnbuckle and immediately jump back into a heel kick, but he slipped as he came off the turnbuckle and didn't get high/far enough to hit the guy.  This happened at Summerslam 2001 while Jeff Hardy was swinging around on the hook.  RVD slipped and couldn't get high enough to kick him.  Hardy waited a second or two, and then he just fell.  I also saw it in one of his ECW matches, where he was trying to kick a guy (my memory fails me, it might have been Lance Storm) who was sitting on the top rope in a very uncomfortable position.  But to his credit, after he slipped on the rope and fell back, he had the presence of mind to change the move from a heel kick to a reverse elbow, and he actually connected!  Crowd still did the "You fucked up!" chant though.

 

Another ECW botch that comes to mind.  Sabu vs. Sandman, Stairway to Hell match.  Sandman is outside the ring leaning against the guardrail.  Sabu jumps out of the ring, aiming for Sandman, who moves out of the way at the last second and Sabu hits the guardrail.  This was supposed to happen, except for one thing:  Sabu's face actually did hit the guardrail, and the man broke his jaw!  And what does Sabu do?  He tapes up his jaw and finishes the match.

 

Sabu also tore his bicep in a barb wire match with Terry Funk.  And once again, Fonzie handed him some tape.  He and Funk are beating the crap out of each other, and at the same time Sabu is trying to tape up his arm.  It was funny in a way.  Don't know if this can really be considered a botch or not.  Of course he wasn't supposed to tear his bicep, but it was a barb wire match.  You don't do a barb wire match and not get cut up.

[Guest thefrenchargel]

a couple that come to my mind...once on WCW saturday night, Kendall Windham was fighting Saturn, and

Kendall did a big boot that missed by a good six or seven inches, Saturn just stood there dumbfounded for a second, and fell over to his side. I just watched the 2000 rumble, and in the triple threat IC title match between Chyna, Jericho, and Hardcore Holly, Chyna does some of the most sad weak punching that is so awful Bob Holly doesn't even want to seem to sell it. During the six-man tag in ECW between the Steiners/Eddy vs Cactus Jack/Scorpio/Malenko, the Steiners hoist Dean on their shoulders and Eddy tries a top rope rana from that position which they blow in spectacular fashion, i've only seen that executed properly once, and it involved Rey Jr, who has the market cornered on the Rana.

[Guest]

I swear when Justin Credible first came into the WWF as JC, I watched him try to superkick someone as they jumped off the top rope at him, but he kicked a little early and got them square in the nuts.

 

Speaking of Justin and his first time in the wwf when he ran down to save X-pac i believe he started to slide under the bottom rope and got stuck i knew he would never get pushed after seeing that

[Guest]

I do know what you're talking about, but I think that was supposed to happen.  It looked to me like that spot was planned out that way.  I'll have to watch it again.  Maybe you saw something I didn't.

 

It would seem odd that they would plan a spot where Jericho falls on his face like that. If he landed on his feet I would understand, but his face?