The With Leather audience is split down the middle when it comes to pro wrestling coverage. One half loves it, and spends hours every Monday night in one of our WWE Raw open discussion threads making esoteric jokes about the Christmas Creature or whatever. The other half can’t express their feelings beyond “fake” and “gay” and wish I’d hurry up and get back to posting UFC Ring Girls. Both sides are valuable to the community, so here’s something we can all agree on: when a pro wrestler almost dramatically kills himself in the ring, it’s a terrifying thing of interest.
This clip (borrowed from Cage Potato, which secretly just wants to be a wrestling blog) features Atlanta-based wrestler Charade going for a double rotation moonsault in a match at a Beyond Wrestling show in Rhode Island on September 30th and, well … sometimes your double rotation moonsault only gets 1 3/4 rotations, and that’s a terrible thing for your entire body.
If you’ve never seen a double moonsault, this is what it’s supposed to look like:
It is not supposed to look like this:
And I’m not just talking about the resolution.
The good folks at Beyond are holding a charity event on Sunday to help with Charade’s medical expenses, so if you’re in the area and are the type who watches this with your hands over your mouth mumbling “oh god,” you should check that out and do what you can to help. Worst case scenario, the next time you see a pro wrestler, remind him to never do this.
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The Beverly Brothers approve of this clip.
The mere fact that ref didn’t immediately stop that match but then only did a slow 2 count to let it continue is a travesty. The wrestlers in the back must’ve given him major shit for it.
I just gagged on my pizza-filled donut. Holy shit.
I can’t believe he kicked out
I’ve watched this clip like 20 times and I’m still amazed that he was moving his limbs after that.
‘This is the darkest day in the history of the WWE’.
TWOOOOOOOOO!
What were his actual injuries? Broken spinal cord? Concussion?
Cracked skull.
Gah, that is awful.
I agree. Terrible execution.
But no really, thank goodness he (should be) able to recover and be okay.
^Terrible execution on the use of parenthesis.
I agree. How could those fans not begin a “You f*cked up!* chant!?!
Well my nephew just learned the words Holy Fuck.
you can’t tell but I’m typing this in owen voice.
And stupid fans, not any of us on this site, wonder why The E wont allow pile drivers, chair shots to head, and other flipping moves like that anymore. Could you imagine this happening on live TV?
Why did the idiot try that? And why did the idiot kick out? Why did the other idiot hook the leg instead of a simple press cover? And why did the idiot ref not count 3? So many wrongs with ending of that. The hooking of the leg was just terrible. Yea a neck injury so lets fold the guy up like an accordion. Genius!!!!
Just trying to elevate the feet, that’s what you do with spinal injuries, right?
This is the problem with the internet. I cant tell if you are serious or not, so I will give a sarcastic response and a medical response. LOL! We need a sarcasm button.
Yes, def raise the feet. In fact, the best way to achieve this would be a tombstone piledriver. That way the feet are directly above the head and neck.
Honestly, Ive never heard that you elevate the feet. While I have no formal medical training, the basic aid classes that I have taken have always instructed me to isolate the body and the neck and to not move the victim in anyway until professionals arrive, provided the victim is in a safe place. You can do more damage than initially caused if you move them. But my basic first aid could be out of date. Last time I took a CPR class we were still doing the breaths and the chest compression. I hear its all chest compression now with little to no breaths.
Thank god that one of the suggested videos that popped up after I saw a man commit suicide was titled KITTEN in hamsterball stuck in the middle. ADORABLE!!!!
That should have been insta-death, or at least insta-paralyzed. I’m thinking Charade should consider a more mat-based approach to his future rasslin’ endeavors.
Unrelated, that Ricochet guy is pretty amazing.
Sometimes you double-rotate the moonsault and sometimes the moonsault double-rotates you.
The paradigm in pro-wrestling is that big guys do power-based wrestling and smaller guys do the high-flying stuff. On the really rare occasion you get a big guy that can do both. Anyhow, if guys the size of Charade want to have any hope of breaking into the big time (read: the WWE) they better be willing and able to do the high flying stuff. The problem, of course, is that a single moonsault is old-hat these days, even for big guys (Brock Lesnar used to rock the moonsault – not well mind you, but he still did it, Vader, Bam Bam Bigelow and even, correct me if I’m wrong, Undertaker among others). So a guy like Charade can’t expect to stand out with just a single moonsault. He’s gotta go for the double. Or, at least he probably feels like he does.
As someone who was at Wrestlemania XIX and saw Lesnar land on his head after botching a shooting star press, I really feel for the fans in attendance. Their silence is quite telling that most of them thought buddy was either dead or thought his limb moving abilities had been compromised to a permanent end.
Thats ” thrillseeker” (adrenaline junkie) Justin Gabriel one of these days after one too many red bulls.
You should generally fold and lay on top of someone after they land on their neck like that.
He crosses himself right before he attempts the move proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that God has one sick sense of humor.
JESUS CHRIST!!!!! As Fez would say, “And that the end of our show, donk”
But seriously, as mentioned above, the dude kicks out of a 2 count after that!? And then he rolls him up for a pin!? TWICE!?!?! Its in a Rhode Island Armory for fucks sake. I think everyone would have understood if they came out of character after that.
I couldn’t watch it, but just the mental image that has formed after reading the article and everyone’s comments will haunt me to my grave.
Damn I’m getting really tired of americans making horrible comments about traumatic events this country is full of sychopants I just wanted to see a double moonsault not a message board for escalating death fetishist’s.