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WWE may be fake, but you can't fake these By AprillBrandon in Pop Goes the Culture July 1, 2009

For those of you who can't get enough of the testosterone-on-steroids action of pro wrestling, I have good news. A new Victoria company called New Evolution Wrestling is bringing that action here.

On July 5, they are kicking off their first show at Riverside Multiplex, complete with former WWE wrestler Lance Cade and Victoria's own pro wrestler Quinten Allen.

Complete details (and interviews with both wrestlers) will be in Friday's edition of the M3 but until then, enjoy this list of the worst pro wrestling injuries throughout the years, courtesy of this article on Retrojunk.com.

South Texas' own Stone Cold Steve Austin tops the list with his numerous injuries which include a broken neck, injured back and knee braces on not one but both knees.

"[His] real problems however date back to a tombstone piledriver which he received from Owen Hart in 1998, when Austin was just beginning to climb to Superstardom. Austin's neck was broken at SummerSlam, and the WWE made a rather successful attempt at covering up the injury temporarily in an effort to continue to push Austin."

Sid Vicious suffered from one of the worst shattered ankle injuries in history.

"Sid Vicious, who was notorious for receiving a series of different injuries, suffered one of the most harrowing and disgusting leg breaks ever seen in wrestling at WCW Sin in 2000. Sid was one of the few big names remaining in an almost defunct WCW, and in an attempt to perform a diving Karate kick on Scott Steiner from the middle turnbuckle, his entire body weight crashed down onto his left leg, causing his foot, from the ankle down to bend in the exact opposite direction to the way nature intended. Sid stared in shock at the dangling leg for a moment, before screaming in agony."

And No. 1, at least in my own head, is Mick Foley, who actually lost an ear while in ring. Can I get an "Ew?"

"The most famous and prominent injury is the fact that he is missing an ear. Mick Foley, while performing as Cactus Jack in WCW, had a gimmick of being a complete madman, and so would tangle his neck between the middle and top ring ropes every night, choking himself half to death before releasing himself and having a good laugh. On one particular occasion though, in 1994, the ropes were tied far too tight and when Foley got caught in the ropes, he couldn't free himself. When the trainers came to the ring to free Foley, they pulled his head so hard that his right ear was ripped off in the process."

Just goes to show you, even though it's well known these shows are predetermined (re: fake), these fellas are still athletes in their own right.

Oh, and kids, please don't try this at home.

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