10 WWE & Other Wrestling Matches That Turned Into Real Fights

We all know that most of the moves performed in a

wrestling

match are performed with the full cooperation of both wrestlers in the ring; However, there are times when a match can go in a totally different direction and two or more wrestlers can start fighting legitimately during a match, there are several reasons for this, ranging from a point that goes wrong in the match to sequentially pisses off one of the wrestlers or the two individuals just don't like each

other

and decide rather inappropriately to settle the score in the middle of a match so with that being said let's take a look at 10 Pro Wrestling Matches That Became Legit Feuds #10 coco beware vs. the masked patriot most fans remember coco beware for his adorable birdman gimmick that inducted him into the wwe hall of fame in 2009 What many fans don't know is that the beloved wrestler He was involved in a match in the 1980s that

turned

into a legitimate fight.

Coco was

wrestling

the Masked Patriot for the Continental Wrestling Association promotion when the match became incredibly physical for strangers. Reasons why the masked patriot began to be extremely rigid with Coco in the ring. The masked patriot was landing

real

punches on Coco's face, to which Koko responded with his own range of hard offensive and one specific shot actually knocked out the masked patriot. At the end of the chaos as coco continued to blast his opponent with head kicks, coco then picked up the masked patriot and hit him with a brain buster and pinned him for win number 9 chris jericho vs. shane mcmahon zano max so excited for this match tonight as shane o'matt with leftist rights leading to jericho shane mcmahon has always been popular with fans and backstage talent, to such an extent that several talents have reached out to say that working with shane on the ring was one of the highlights of his career.

The same cannot be said for wrestling legend Chris Jericho, who had a physical confrontation with Shane at Survivor Series in 2016. Both Jericho and Shane were wrestling as part of their respective teams for the traditional Raw vs Smackdown match. During the match, for seemingly no reason, Shane started legitimately punching Jericho in the face. Jericho admits that Shane clearly wasn't doing this with malicious intent, he was just overexcited from being in the ring. Jericho responded with some harsh words directed at Shane before kicking out. him right in the face to finally get the message across that shane needed to calm down the steiner br

other

s number eight against the nasty boys. when the nasty boys joined wcw in 1990, they immediately became embroiled in a feud with the steiner brothers, The main reason for this was that there were a number of complaints from other WWE wrestlers that the Steiner brothers were too rigid in the ring and no one wanted to work with them, so when the two teams faced off at the Halloween PPV Havoc, combat would seriously blur the lines.

Relative to what was

real

, the two teams were exchanging hard shots and moves throughout the match, it was clear that Rick and Scott Steiner entered the match expecting the match to go their way, however, when the nasty guys took genuine offense, the match changed. in a rather unconventional contest number 7 brock lesnar vs braun strowman brock lesnar is well established as one of the toughest fighters on the planet, so when braun strowman decided to go too rigid with the former ufc champion in 2018, he discovered what difficult Why does no one cross the beast? The incident took place during a triple threat match that also featured WWE legend Kane in the match.

Braun would get too physical with Lesnar with stiff knees and shots at Lesnar. Lesnar responded by punching Braun in the face. Of course, if Braun didn't calm down, Lesnar would give Braun the beating of his life in the middle of the ring. According to Braun, once the two men arrived backstage, Braun apologized to Lesnar and the two reportedly They were on good terms in the future. number six ken shamrock vs vader vader and ken shamrock are two of the toughest fighters to ever set foot in a square circle and their match on in your house, a cold day in hell in 1997 was a testament to this: the bout would act as shamrock's first. match on the WWE pay-per-view and Shamrock clearly forgot that he wasn't actually supposed to hit his opponent, as he would land Vader a series of punches that actually broke his nose.

Vader would inform Shamrock to calm down, but this was of little use. To stop Shamrock, this led to Vader giving Shamrock one of the tightest bonds of all time, which nearly decapitated Shamrock. The two managed to continue the match without too much commotion and Shamrock quickly learned that WWE was extremely different from the MMA world he was accustomed to. perry saturn vs mike bell when perry saturn faced mike bell during a wwe medal taping in 2001, the match was supposed to act as a basic upgrade match for saturn during the course of the match, bell would fail in a series of basic moves and bell even botched an arm drag, resulting in Saturn landing on his head.

Saturn was absolutely incensed that Bell had botched these moves, so Saturn decided to shoot Bell. Saturn would punch Bell in the face and throw him through the ropes with such speed that Bell would land on his head, Saturn would perform a series of moves that were clearly one-sided on the cooperative side, and Saturn would even aim for Bell's neck. Belle in some incredibly scary places once the match was over, even Saturn's manager Terry Reynolds would kick Bell as he was leaving the ring to add insult to injury, Saturn was heavily criticized by WWE management backstage after the match. incident, even WWE icon Stone Cold Steve Austin later came forward to claim that Saturn's handling of the incident was inappropriate.

Saturn would be given the infamous moppy. gimmick shortly after the incident blew up and unfortunately that was the beginning of the end of his once promising career number four, Kurt Angle vs. Daniel Pewter in 2004, Kurt Angle and the rather tough star Daniel Pewter would face off in what would be presented as a shooting style. matched the plan and the intended outcome was for Angle to win, but this plan quickly went out the window. Pewter decided to set a drawbar on Angle and Angle was actually close to exhaustion, which could have seriously impacted Angle's credibility because the match had

turned

into a real-life shootout, the referee had to fake it. that Pewter's shoulders were on the mat to grant Angle the victory.

When the incident initially occurred, fans were confused as to what had just happened, but a report was later published by Dave Melzer of the Wrestling Observer. confirmed that Pewter decided to shoot at an angle and revealed that it was real if you didn't follow the fight. Pewter had the angle locked in the kimura or key lock as Taz called it, although Taz didn't let on that the move was fully executed, it wasn't just the angle. not out of the move, but most mma fighters would have tapped by now. Angle couldn't tap for obvious reasons, the referee counted a 3 even though Pewter's shoulders weren't fully lowered trying to finish the thing because the reality was Angle would have been in surgery if it had lasted a few seconds longer or if Pewter I wouldn't have given up on hold number three apa against the public enemy I don't know if the referee is afraid to count oh God, look Bradshaw and Farouk had quite the reputation for not being - no-nonsense fighters, particularly during the attitude era, for Therefore, when there was a backstage problem with the APA and the Public Enemy related to the end of the match, the APA decided to legitimately hit the Public Enemy during the course of the match, Bruce Pritchard revealed that the APA felt the Public Enemy lacked him. respect at the end of the game and the apa, naturally, decided to take it in the game in a quite physical way.

After the match, the two teams shook hands and parted ways shortly after the incident from which the public enemy was released. WWE was blamed on the duo not getting over each other, but the common consensus is that this incident was the catalyst that led to their number two WWE exits. William Regal vs. Goldberg The match between William Regal and Goldberg in WCW in 1998 is one of The most infamous

matches

in WCW history, the match was supposed to be a simple squash match in which Goldberg scored another victory, however, Regal decided to legitimately wrestle Goldberg with amateur style wrestling moves.

There has been some debate over the years regarding what actually happened during the match, some claim that Regal was told that the match was supposed to be a competitive match, while some claim that Regal simply wanted to shoot the rookie of the wcw, according to former wcw president eric bischoff, it was regal who initiated the shooting elements of the match and it was regal simply going too far bischoff stated on his podcast that i have personally never spoken to bill or regal about this so no I know what their individual perspectives are and they were the two that were involved so it's really their opinions that are the only ones that matter, I tell you what my expectations were and the rationale behind the match but I think in my opinion , with all due respect to Mr.

Regal, he went too far, he wanted more than we wanted him to take, he went a little further than he should have the number one style naya jax vs charlotte on paper nia jax vs charlotte flair sounds like a typical match that fans would see on raw, but this particular match was a stark contrast to the

matches

the two women have had prior to the match in question. took place on the August 30, 2021 edition of Raw and during the match the two appeared to shoot at each other in a rather shocking manner, the two exchanged real slaps and punches and it was completely unexpected as both women seemed to be fine. terms and appeared to be friends outside the ring, pw insider would later report that there was a tense confrontation in the middle of the match that led to the physical assault, although they did not elaborate on what the core of the issue actually was. pw insider also noted that both women were fine once they arrived backstage, so the apparent issue was resolved in the ring.