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Merry Christmas everyone.
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The moves are harmless when done properly. The Stunner can presumably cause injury to the trachea but is harmless if you fall to your knees with Austin. You then rebound and sell the move. The tombstone is harmless if your head is kept at the proper height. If it is done correctly, the user takes the whole impact with his knees and the victim is unharmed.
All it takes is one botch to cause an issue though. The worst one in the last 25 years was probably Owen Hart dying. His gimmick was that of a "bufoonish superhero" and Vince decided that it would be funny if he was lowered into the ring by a harness. When he got three feet above the ring, he would act like he was tangled, and it would trigger a quick release, dropping him on his face for comedic effect. They tried this stunt once before but the quick release did not release properly, so Owen was stuck dangling three feet above the ring. So they gave him a different quick release, one that was meant for sailing vessels. He went over the catwalk all gitted up, and at some point must have maneuvered to get comfortable or something, because it released early and he fell like 73 feet to the ring, catching the ropes with his chest, and being flung back into the ring itself. He may have tried to get up but lost consciousness, and his cause of death was massive internal bleeding.
The then-WWF controversially went on with the show at the order of Vince McMahon, but all the wrestlers were visibly shaken and not into it. The Hart Family sued the WWF and won for $18 million.
Vince insists that his call to continue the event was warranted because a cancellation would have left fans (many of whom were drunk) to riot. The next night saw a tribute to Hart, during which Mark Henry wept while he read a poem dedicated to Hart, and Undertaker was absent, instead spending the day with Owens brother Bret.
I'm Sorry for the tangent. I just really liked Owen and he was probably one of the nicest people behind the scenes.
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Gosh, sounded like a simple enough premise for an entrance. One assumes that falling a good distances would get you banged up pretty bad, but not irreparably. All depends on how ya fall too. You hear about that, a soccer player getting kicked too hard in a fall or what went down with that whole botched Spiderman broadway musical show where appearently several people died from bad props.
It definitely is taking a risk for something so physical!
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Owen probably would have survived if he landed in the ring itself. It is so good at shock absorption that he would have probably ended up with his entire front bruising, but he would have survived. The issue was a ref was apparently already in the ring. Some people heard him (Owen) screaming for the referee to get out of the way, but he didn’t see him. Owen moved in the air so he wouldn’t crush the guy, knowing it meant his odds of survival were less.
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in case you need to know this for some reason.
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Without a doubt my favorite guitarist of all time. RIP Stevie Ray Vaughan.
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”Art”
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"Grandpa, after 40 years of marriage you still call grandma 'honey' 'sugar' and 'sweetheart'. What's your secret?"
"I forgot her name 5 years ago and I'm scared to ask her."
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"I do pushups every day sometimes. Just sometimes I get lazy for weeks and don't do them but then I do them every day."
-My friend