10 Wrestling moments that freaked fans out

#6 Stan Hansen pokes out Vader's eye--for real

Stan Hansen takes on the beast Big Van Vader in Japan.

Vader and Stan Hansen; Two of the biggest, toughest, and stiffest wrestling icons who ever laced up a pair of boots. Both legit tough men, they were enormously powerful--Hansen once power slammed Andre the Giant--and was also enormously popular with Japanese fandom

When the two inevitably collided, fans expected a brutal contest with plenty of hard shots that blurred the line between a performance and a real fight. However, they probably weren't expecting what went down.

During the early going of the wrestling match, the two men were trading blows when Hansen miscalculated and got his thumb too close to Vader's eye. He essentially thumbed Vader's eyeball out of its socket! When the wrestling fans finally got a good look as Vader popped his own eye back in, a disgusted and shocked gasp carried through the crowd.

Vader wasn't about to let the match be called off due to injury, however grievous. He popped his eyeball back into place and proceeded to beat Hansen with stiff strikes that blurred the line between performance and reality

Here's Vader describing the incident in a shoot interview.