#9 Brock Lesnar’s botched Powerbomb onto Hardcore Holly
There are differing accounts as to what happened here. One story argues that Hardcore Holly sandbagged Lesnar (that is to say, he deadweighted him on purpose to make Lesnar look weak), while the other argues that Lesnar was still relatively inexperienced and thus incapable of powerbombing someone of Holly’s size safely.
Either way, Lesnar dropped Holly square on his neck, which could be seen very clearly in the video above. The audience recoils in horror as this happens, and even the commentators react to this move with shock.
Holly ended up with a broken neck and spent thirteen months in recovery. He did get his ‘revenge’ match at the 2004 Royal Rumble PPV, but that only ended up being a six-minute one-sided affair for Lesnar. Not really the dramatic conclusion for a man seeking revenge for such a sickening head spike,
