History NightmareFuel / ProfessionalWrestling

* Undertaker locking Ultimate Warrior into a casket [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNg95xuwuCs Even worse, it went on and on, with various officials trying (and failing) to get warrior out of the casket. When they finally did, it was revealed that warrior had torn up the coffin in a desperate attempt to get out. Creepy stuff for a show aired on Saturday afternoons.]]

* Let us not forget, the night Kane took his mask off [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLWNZKlxXPg and shows his face to the public for the first time.]]

* During his first run in the WWF in 1992, Las Vegas native Charles Wright was packaged as voodoo practitioner Papa Shango, and his gimmick -- although considered [[Narm/ProfessionalWrestling laughable]] today, fans -- particularly younger ones -- shivvered and screamed in bed the times they saw this scary-looking monster hold up a flaming skull and, just by raising his hand, could make his opponents (almost always, jobbers, but sometimes the UltimateWarrior and at least once "Mean" Gene Okerlund) writhe in extreme pain, hemorrhage blood without explanation and vomit violently -- and Papa Shango didn't even have to be anywhere ''near'' the ring to make his hapless victims suffer. (Wright, already heavily tattooed, had a large skull painted on his face and spoke with a scary growl to make the Papa Shango character realistic, which did not help matters.)

* During his first run in the WWF in 1992, Las Vegas native Charles Wright was packaged as voodoo practitioner Papa Shango, and his gimmick -- although considered [[Narm/ProfessionalWrestling laughable]] today, fans -- particularly younger ones -- shivvered and screamed in bed the times they saw this scary-looking monster hold up a flaming skull and, just by raising his hand, could make his opponents (almost always, jobbers, but sometimes the UltimateWarrior and at least once "Mean" Gene Okerlund) writhe in extreme pain, hemorrhage blood without explanation and vomit violently -- and Papa Shango didn't even have to be anywhere ''near'' the ring to carry out these actions. (Wright, already heavily tattooed, had a large skull painted on his face and spoke with a scary growl to make the Papa Shango character realistic, which did not help matters.)

* During his first run in the WWF in 1992, Las Vegas native Charles Wright was packaged as voodoo practitioner Papa Shango, and his gimmick -- although considered [[Narm/ProfessionalWrestling laughable]] today, fans -- particularly younger ones -- shivvered and screamed in bed the times they saw this scary-looking monster hold up a flaming skull and, just by raising his hand, could make his opponents (almost always, jobbers, but sometimes the UltimateWarrior) writhe in extreme pain, hemorrhage blood without explanation and vomit violently. Wright, already heavily tattooed, had a large skull painted on his face, and he spoke with a scary growl, which did not help matters.

* In pro wrestli- I (beat) AM THE BOOGEYMAN! AND I'M COMING TO GET JOO! Just look at [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7LR8TzGGg this.]] And ''don't'' turn the volume all the way up.
** Along with that, meet [[MickFoley Mankind]]! [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGM5MzEeC4s (He's the first one. Ignore the others)]].
** Wrestler/{{Kane}} and TheUndertaker. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J80E-sYjcMI That is all.]]
* MickFoley is the NightmareFetishist of professional wrestling. Watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1QNgnhiQA this]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iydq3S1xfo this]]. Look at that [[SlasherSmile demented, gap-tooth smile with his own blood running down his face]] and tell me he doesn't enjoy it. And you know what's scary, those are his during [[RetiredBadass his "post-retirement" years.]]
* Any match involving the proficient use of barbed wire. Want an example? Sabu vs. Terry Funk in a ''No-Rope Barbed Wire'' match at ECW's ''Born to Be Wired'' PPV. Sabu misses a splash on Funk and goes crashing into a barbed-wire board, tearing a 10-inch gash in his freakin' biceps and had someone go get [[DuctTapeForEverything duct tape]] to wrap it up so he could finish the match Paul Heyman and company felt that one [[UpToEleven "was too extreme, even for ECW."]]

* Let us not forget, the night Kane took his mask off [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JYJu4mrglk and shows his face to the public for the first time.]]

* Let us not forget, the night Kane took his mask off and shows his face to the public for the first time.

* {{Sheamus}} vs. Jamie Noble. While Jamie Noble did win a few championships with the WCW and the Ring of Honor, his appearance on Raw was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill jobbing match. Before it, {{Sheamus}} said that [[HarsherInHindsight this match would end Noble's career.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfQblbGqNk It did.]]

* EddieGuerrero vs. [[JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]], ''Judgment Day'' 2004, a match that many wrestlers and critics alike say redefined the "Muta Scale." During the match, Bradshaw waylays Eddie with a stiff chair shot. This, and Eddie's deep, '''deep''' blade job, caused rivulets of blood to run down Eddie's face and body and made for one of the most surreal, horrifying spectacles in Wrestling/{{WWE}} history. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYqme5Xziyc Watch at your own risk.]]

* [[ProfessionalWrestling WWE's Hell in a Cell.]] Imagine being trapped inside a 16 ft. high, 2 ton cage with your opponent and the referee. Since you can only win through pinfall or submission, you or your opponent are bound to get legitimate and severe injuries that could potentially [[FridgeHorror end your career and ruin your life.]]
** That's assuming it doesn't ruin your career and ''end'' your life.
** [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UV-hKh355QU&feature=related This PPV intro doesn't help either.]]
** Mankind and Undertaker's infamous match. Mankind took two hideous bumps; one (intentional) from the roof to the ''announcer table'', and another (accidental) ''through the roof to the ring below.'' Undertaker later admitted '''''he thought he'd killed him.'''''
** Dont forget [[Wrestling/{{WWE}} WWE's Elimination Chamber]] and [[{{TNA}} TNA's Steel Asylum]], both of which add more opponents, more steel and chain, and more opportunity for [[BloodierAndGorier bloodshed]] and [[GameBreakingInjury injury.]] Remember, kids, ProfessionalWrestling is fake, but the odds of getting hurt are '''REAL'''. (Just ask MickFoley.)
** And it gets worse, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_match_types as seen here]].
* In pro wrestli- I (beat) AM THE BOOGEYMAN! AND I'M COMING TO GET JOO! Just look at [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sY7LR8TzGGg this.]] And '''DON'T'' Turn the volume all the way up.

*** Wrestler/{{Kane}} ''and'' TheUndertaker. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J80E-sYjcMI That is all.]]
* MickFoley is '''THE''' NightmareFetishist of professional wrestling. Don't believe me? Watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1QNgnhiQA this]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iydq3S1xfo this]]. Look at that ''[[SlasherSmile demented, gap-tooth smile with his own blood running down his face]]'' and tell me he doesn't enjoy it. And you know what's scary, those are his during [[RetiredBadass his "post-retirement" years.]]
* '''Any''' match involving the proficient use of barbed wire. Want an example? Sabu vs. Terry Funk in a ''No-Rope Barbed Wire'' match at ECW's ''Born to Be Wired'' PPV. Sabu misses a splash on Funk and goes crashing into a barbed-wire board, ''tearing a 10-inch gash in his freakin' biceps'' and had someone go get ''[[DuctTapeForEverything duct tape]]'' to wrap it up so he could finish the match, one that Paul Heyman and co. felt [[UpToEleven "was too extreme, even for ECW."]]
* Se7en, the gimmick that never was. When Dustin Rhodes came back to WCW after his run as Goldust, he was presented as a mysterious white-faced figure who lurked outside a child's window, [[ParanoiaFuel watching him]]. The suits at Turner [[ExecutiveMeddling immediately nixed the gimmick]], finding him too scary, and finding him uncomfortably similar to a child abductor. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtXAtGJ4JQ Can't say I blame 'em.]]
* {{Sheamus}} vs. Jamie Noble. While Jamie Noble ''did'' win a few championships with the WCW and the Ring of Honor, his appearance on Raw was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill jobbing match. Before it, {{Sheamus}} said that [[HarsherInHindsight this match would end Noble's career.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfQblbGqNk It did.]]

** ItGotWorse, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Professional_wrestling_match_types as seen here]].

* The Undertaker's theme is considered NightmareFuel due to it beginning with the loud eerie ringing of a church bell like the beginning of AC/DC's Hells Bells but scarier, then crescendoing into the creepiest rendition of Chopin's Funeral March ever, and the rest of the music sounds like something out of a ResidentEvil game. Scary enough for ya?

* The Undertaker's theme is considered NightmareFuel due to it beginning with the loud eerie ringing of a church bell like the beginning of AC/DC's Hells Bells but scarier, then crescendoing into the creepiest rendition of Chopin's Funeral March ever, and the rest of the music sounds like something out of a ResidentEvil game. Scary enough for ya?

* The Undertaker's theme is considered NightmareFuel due to it beginning with three loud eerie ringing of a church bell like the beginning of AC/DC's Hells Bells but more scarier crecendoing into the most creepiest rendition of Chopin's Funeral March and the rest of the music sounds like something out of a ResidentEvil game.

* Layla vs BethPhoenix at ''Over The Limit'' 2012, the moment where Beth locks Layla in the half-crab and Layla is crying "please stop!" is a little frightening considering Layla is selling it realistically as opposed to the theatrical way most wrestling injuries get sold. Plus Beth was working Layla's surgically repaired leg (it's Layla's right leg that is damaged and in wrestling it's always the left limbs that get worked).

* EddieGuerrero vs. [[JohnBradshawLayfield JBL]], ''Judgment Day'' 2004, a match that many wrestlers and critics alike say redefined the "Muta Scale." During the match, Bradshaw waylays Eddie with a stiff chair shot. This, and Eddie's deep, '''deep''' blade job, caused rivulets of blood to run down Eddie's face and body and made for one of the most surreal, horrifying spectacles in {{WWE}} history. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYqme5Xziyc Watch at your own risk.]]

** Dont forget [[{{WWE}} WWE's Elimination Chamber]] and [[{{TNA}} TNA's Steel Asylum]], both of which add more opponents, more steel and chain, and more opportunity for [[BloodierAndGorier bloodshed]] and [[GameBreakingInjury injury.]] Remember, kids, ProfessionalWrestling is fake, but the odds of getting hurt are '''REAL'''. (Just ask MickFoley.)

*** {{Wrestler/Kane}} ''and'' TheUndertaker. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J80E-sYjcMI That is all.]]
* MickFoley is '''THE''' {{Nightmare Fetishist}} of professional wrestling. Don't believe me? Watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1QNgnhiQA this]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iydq3S1xfo this]]. Look at that ''[[SlasherSmile demented, gap-tooth smile with his own blood running down his face]]'' and tell me he doesn't enjoy it. And you know what's scary, those are his during [[RetiredBadass his "post-retirement" years.]]

* {{Sheamus}} vs. Jamie Noble. While Jamie Noble ''did'' win a few championships with the WCW and the Ring of Honor, his appearance on Raw was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill jobbing match. Before it, {{Sheamus}} said that [[HarsherInHindsight this match would end Noble's career.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfQblbGqNk It did.]]

* MickFoley is '''THE''' {{Nightmare Fetishist}} of professional wrestling. Don't believe me? Watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1QNgnhiQA this]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iydq3S1xfo this]]. Look at that ''[[SlasherSmile demented, gap-tooth smile with his own blood running down his face]]'' and tell me he doesn't enjoy it. And you know what's scary, those are his during [[RetiredBadass his "post-retirement" years.]] I can't even think about 1998 his Hell in The Cell match with {{The Undertaker}} without having nightmares.

* {{Sheamus}} vs. Jamie Noble. While Jamie Noble ''did'' win a few championships with the WCW and the Ring of Honor, his appearance on Raw was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill jobbing match. Before it, {{Sheamus}} said that [[HarsherInHindsight this match could end Noble's career.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfQblbGqNk It did.]]

* {{Sheamus}} vs. Jamie Noble. While Jamie Noble ''did'' win a few championships with the WCW and the Ring of Honor, his appearance on Raw was supposed to be a run-of-the-mill jobbing match. Before it, {{Sheamus}} said that [[HarsherInHindsight this match could end his career.]] [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzfQblbGqNk It did.]]

* Se7en, the gimmick that never was. When Dustin Rhodes came back to WCW after his run as Goldust, he was presented as a mysterious white-faced figure who lurked outside a child's window, [[ParanoiaFuel watching him]]. The suits at Turner [[ExecutiveMeddling immediately nixed the gimmick]], finding him too scary, and finding him uncomfortably similar to a child abductor. [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWtXAtGJ4JQ Can't say I blame 'em.]]

** Mankind and Undertaker's infamous match. Mankind took two hideous bumps; one (intentional) from the roof to the ''announcer table'', and another (accidental) ''through the roof to the ring below.'' Undertaker later admitted '''''he thought he'd killed him.'''''

* '''Any''' match involving the proficient use of barbed wire. Want an example? Sabu vs. Terry Funk in a ''No-Rope Barbed Wire'' match at ECW's ''Born to Be Wired'' PPV. Sabu misses a splash on Funk and goes crashing into a barbed-wire board, ''tearing a 10-inch gash in his freakin' biceps'' and had someone go get ''[[DuctTapeForEverything duct tape]]'' to wrap it up so he could finish the match, one that Paul Heyman and co. felt [[UpToEleven "was too extreme, even for ECW."]]

* '''Any''' match involving the proficient use of barbed wire. Want an example? Sabu vs. Terry Funk in a ''No-Rope Barbed Wire'' match at ECW's ''Born to Be Wired'' PPV. Sabu misses a splash on Funk and goes crashing into a barbed-wire board, ''tearing a 10-inch gash in his freakin' biceps'' and had someone go get ''[[DuctTapeForEverything duct tape]]'' to wrap it up so he could finish the match, one that PaulHeyman and co. felt [[UpToElven "was too extreme, even for ECW."]]

* MickFoley is '''THE''' {{Nightmare Fetishist}} of professional wrestling. Don't believe me? Watch [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2m1QNgnhiQA this]] and [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Iydq3S1xfo this]]. Look at that ''[[SlasherSmile demented, gap-tooth smile with his own blood running down his face]]'' and tell me he doesn't enjoy it. And you know what's scary, those are his during [[RetiredBadass his "post-retirement" years.]] I can't even think about 1998 his Hell in The Cell match with {{The Undertaker}} without having nightmares.