 While Whipwreck was on the outside, Mamalook went high-risk. The back of Tony Mamalook's head and neck slammed into the men's guardrails. Mamalook was slow to move after the accident, and the match soon came to an end. However, Tony Mamalook didn't suffer any life-altering injuries. When you take out wrestlers who were inches away from injury or death, once again, being in a wrestling business, you gotta be kind of aware of what you're getting yourself into when you step inside that squared circle. Matches usually go the way they're supposed to, but sometimes they don't, and sometimes you can be that close from potentially paralyzing yourself or even death. It's a dangerous sport. That's why they always say, and they've always said this for a very long time, do not try this at home. Of course, people still do try that home, but you end up seeing people get hurt or even possibly killed accidentally. So much respect to the wrestlers. I will always show respect to those who get in the ring, even Jinder Mahal. I make the jokes that don't be jokes, but I make the points that WWE hasn't booked them well at all, never to be taken really seriously except for one time. But I do respect the fact that he does get in the ring and he's willing to deal with the pain and the punishment for our entertainment. So on a base level, I respect all wrestlers and may not care about how they're being booked or presented on television, but I respect them for getting in that ring and trying to entertain us because it's a dangerous, dangerous sport. Let's get right into this one. Should be a good one. Although wrestlers aren't trying to actually hurt each other, wrestling is still incredibly dangerous. The wrestlers you're about to see in this video are inches away from injury or even death. Now you wouldn't expect someone to drown when competing in a wrestling match, but that did almost happen. In 1997, Ken Shamrock was wrestling a match in Japan against Vader. Japanese wrestling is a bit different from what you might see in WWE. While Japanese wrestling is still predetermined, wrestlers hit each other a bit harder and matches can be pretty brutal. Ken Shamrock and Vader did just that in their match, but things nearly turned deadly. Going into the fight, Shamrock had a bad rib and an affected lung. So when Vader power bombed Shamrock, Shamrock's lungs began to fill with blood. Vader was supposed to have Ken three power bombs, but Shamrock called off the third, which is what saved his life. Had Vader hit the third power bomb, then Ken Shamrock would have died internally due to the impact. Randy Orton and the Undertaker spewed until the- Yeah, I'm glad he did call that off. And once again, that's an internal injury. You don't even really know. Only the person that's like, you know, internally feeling it would know. That's crazy. Jesus. In five was filled with insane stunts. A lot of them were pretty risky and the Legend Killer was inches away from killing himself a couple of times. One episode of Smackdown saw Randy Orton set the Undertaker on the back of a car, to which Randy Orton then drove into the Smackdown set. Crazy segment. However, the middle panel was the only one that was rigged to break away, and there was very little room for error. Had Randy been off by just a few inches, he could have seriously injured himself or the Undertaker. Had a few angels with me that day, so did Taker. However, this was not the most dangerous stunt Randy Orton and the Undertaker did during- This feud, by the way, fucking classic, bro. Young Randy Orton going against prime Undertaker, this was chef's kiss. Bro, this, in my opinion, this would make Randy Orton definitely solidified him more as someone to take seriously, because he was trying to end the Undertaker, and the Undertaker always kept coming back. This was a really good feud, man. In their feud, at no mercy, Randy and his father fought Taker in a casket match. The Orns won and then set the dead man on fire. Surprisingly, Randy Orton was the one who was actually in danger of being set on fire. After the Orns had closed the casket, the Undertaker escaped through a secret compartment and hid under the rang. However, as Randy was bathing the casket in kerosene, the flammable liquid was spilling on the viper. I didn't even realize it, but my boots up to my knees were soaked in kerosene. Once Randy lit the casket, he backed away just in time the claims didn't set him ablaze. Extreme Championship Wrestling And it don't take much. If he would have stood a little bit closer, he probably would have got accidentally set on fire and that wouldn't have been a good look at all, but once again, gladly, that didn't happen. More than lived up to its name, multiple wrestlers came inches away from death. Sometimes it was by accident. Other times, it was very intentional. Once such incident happened during a match between Super Crazy and CW Anderson, as was the norm in ECW, weapons were introduced into a match, including tables. Super Crazy attempted to put Anderson through a table, but the foreign object didn't break. This forced Crazy to improvise and perform a moonsault onto an upside down table. However, the table got moved around, causing Crazy to nearly impale himself on the middle leg. Thankfully, he landed in between the feet, saving himself from a very painful and possibly life-altering injury. While we know why Super Crazy survived that incident, it's literally a miracle this next wrestler wasn't paralyzed for life. During another ECW show, Tony Mamalook was in a match against Mikey Whiprack. Mamalook was a fast-paced, high-flying wrestler, which led to him nearly losing his life. While Whiprack was on the outside, Mamalook went high-risk. The back of Tony Mamalook's head and neck slammed into the middle guard rails. Mamalook was slow to move after the accident, and the match soon came to an end. However, Tony Mamalook didn't suffer any life-altering injuries. He continued to compete for several more years. This next wrestler was not even inches, but literally centimeters from losing his right arm. During his WCW career, Goldberg was involved in a feud with Bret Hart. Part of the storyline saw Goldberg chase Hart out of the arena. In his rage, Goldberg went and smashed the windows he knew by the cuisine. To pull off the stunt, Goldberg had a small piece of pipe concealed in his black gloves. However, after breaking the first window, Goldberg dropped the pipe. Since he was on live TV, he couldn't pick up the pipe, so instead, Goldberg literally smashed the rest of the windows with his bare hand. However, this caused a shard of glass to slice an artery in Goldberg's arm. The WCW superstar lost a lot of blood before getting into the emergency room, and it was so bad that Goldberg nearly had to have his arm amputated. The doctors were able to prevent that, but Goldberg was out of action for several months simply because he dropped the pipe. The wrestler didn't lose his life. He did suffer damage that he still lives with today. Early in his career, Perry sat up wrestling a match in ECW against Pitbull Number 2. Not surprisingly, the fight spilled out into the crowd. Perry then hit a moonsault off the middle rope and into the outside. However, Pitbull didn't catch Saturn correctly, causing Saturn's head to hit the floor. Perry's skull was busted open, but despite that, Saturn acted like nothing was wrong and finished the match. However, the accident did give Perry chronic traumatic encephalopathy, or CTE. What makes this story a little bit heartwarming is what Perry sat up to do years later. In December 2000, Perry sat up wrestling a match on Monday Night Raw against Chris Jericho. Unlike the instant with Pitbull, Saturn's match with Jericho was a standard wrestling match. Plus, Perry and Y2J had wrestled each other several times before, so it seemed like it couldn't be a more safe environment. During their fight, Jericho went for a moonsault from the middle rope, just like what Perry had done years earlier. However, something was off and Chris's head being a deployment straight towards the match. Saturn's quick reaction allowed him to use his right leg and arm to protect his opponent from a serious injury. At Perry not done that, what happened to him years earlier is what could have happened to Chris Jericho. As you saw with Randy Orton, WWE wrestlers have to be versatile. It's not uncommon for wrestlers to learn how to perform dangerous stunts in a short amount of time, like when Kane had to learn how to set himself on fire safely. While the Big Red Machine was okay, Stone Cold Steve Austin was literally inches away from death when performing a huge stun. During Austin's feud with Triple H and DX, the Rouse Snake famously destroyed the group's bust. However, this one instant nearly killed Stone Cold. While trying to operate the machine, Austin was moving the crane so the beam would drop in the right place. However, as he was doing that, the beam began to swing and was inches away from smashing into the driver's seat. Had that happened, this stunt would have been remembered for a much different reason. Unfortunately, this wasn't the only stunt that nearly killed Stone Cold Steve Austin. During Stone Cold's feud with The Rock, one instant saw Steve Austin run over the monster truck, then drive up to the ring. While waiting for his cue to enter the arena though, Steve Austin was waiting inside the monster truck and began to breathe in the fumes from the giant vehicle. Stone Cold was waiting for so long, they started to have trouble breathing. Had it been any longer, Austin admits he would have died. Look at how fast body paper can make a beer bottle disappear. You might think that the bottle was made from sugar glass, like what they use in movies. However, that was a real glass bottle Paper hit himself with, as evident by the cut it gave him. This was without a doubt a very dangerous stunt and it's more than likely that Paper felt the effects of it after the segment was over. We've seen it. Other clips how dangerous it is for a wrestler to die to the outside, but the person taking the move is also in a lot of danger as you'll see here. Early in Xbox career, he was wrestling a match when his opponent hit a senta to the outside. Xbox opponent was okay, but Xbox was not. The future degeneration X member hit his head on the concrete floor, which knocked him out. The other wrestler had to literally pull Xbox body into the ring to pin him and end the match. Once he got to the hospital, doctors discovered the accident created a blood clot in Xbox brain. While Xbox didn't die, he was told that he would never wrestle again. Never only lasted four months, but Xbox was back in the ring and eventually found himself competing in WWE. This next wrestler was inches away from breaking his neck. In January 2024 on AEW Dynamite, Stan Darby Allen fought Kenosha Kateshita and Powerhouse Hobbs in a tag team match. Hobbs and Kateshita had taken control of the match and gained up on Darby. They then grabbed Allen by his arms and legs and chucked him across the ring. However, Darby Allen had too much momentum, cause his head to collide with the robe. Allen was okay, but the accident looked ugly. Unfortunately, not- Yeah bro, I saw that. That shit was fucking sick. I want y'all to understand anytime you hit your head on those ropes, it's like hitting a brick wall bro. They're so tight that all that momentum and you quickly stop, it's like a brick wall. And he definitely couldn't be, he could have been seriously injured bro. Not everyone is as lucky as Darby Allen. Some wrestlers have gotten seriously hurt and even died in the ring. To see that, watch this video. Man, this, yeah, this was, uh, this was wild bro. This was definitely wild man. Once again, respect to the wrestlers who decided to get in the ring bro. This just, I, that one clip with the guard rail, oh, I had never seen that clip. So that made me cringe like crazy. But comment down below, let me know which one of these clips was the craziest in your opinion. But I appreciate all the love and support you guys have shown on the channel. Roll to 150K and I'm seeing you on speedy YouTube rest of the world. Appreciate y'all kicking it with me. See y'all next week. Peace.