10 Wrestling moments that freaked fans out

#3 Brock Lesnar botches a Shooting Star Press at WrestleMania

At Wrestlemania, Brock Lesnar botched a shooting star press on Kurt Angle. Brock had performed the move in Ohio Valley Wrestling but at lower body weight

When Brock Lesnar made his wrestling debut in WWE, he was billed as the Next Big Thing, and with very good reason.

Lesnar was a college wrestling stand out, an All American and self made man who worked his way up from working class roots to become a wildly successful athlete. Lesnar was a huge hit in the WWE's developmental territory at the time, Ohio Valley Wrestling.

Lesnar wowed Ohio Valley Wrestling crowds with his power, but also with his dazzling agility. Lesnar regularly climbed to the top rope and performed the shooting star press, an acrobatic move mostly reserved for the cruiserweight class--men a full hundred pounds lighter than Lesnar at the time.

But it was all a set up for a terribly shocking moment.

Fans were terrified when Brock Lesnar botched a shooting star press on Kurt Angle because it seemed as if The Beast Incarnate should have been crippled or even killed.

At the time, Lesnar flirted with three hundred pounds and probably shouldn't have been attempting such a move in the first place. However, he had performed the move in Ohio Valley Wrestling before and was confident he could do so again.

Lesnar ended up landing directly on his head and neck. The sight was so gruesome a panicked murmur rushed through the capacity crowd. However, Lensar would shock the world by not only surviving but finishing--and winning-- the match with an F5!