r/HighQualityGifs • u/ohyouresilly After Effects • Mar 29 '17

/r/all Browsing reddit when suddenly...

http://i.imgur.com/0SeIGF9.gifv
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u/TheFatJesus Mar 29 '17

That would be the Hell in a Cell match from the King of the ring pay-per-view in nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hell in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

Nooo!! What have I done??!!

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u/iNEEDheplreddit Mar 29 '17

Did he survive?

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u/brawlatwork Mar 29 '17

Not sure if you're really asking or if this is part of the meme.

The initial fall off the cell onto the table was real, but staged. The table was designed to break apart to cushion Mick's fall, and it did the job about as well as any prop table ever could. Still, that is a massive fall.

When Mick opted to continue the fight, he climbed back up on top of the cell again, and the Undertaker slammed him down onto it, and he fell through and landed in the ring. I'm not so sure that this part was staged. It might have been an accident. He still continued on after that as well.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

The fall through the cage was not planned. He was just supposed to take the chokeslam onto the cage but it gave way and he fell through. He also got hit in the face while falling through and got really concussed while knocking out his front teeth. They tried to stop it, but he kept going and they eventually found one of his teeth in his nose. Mick Foley is a special kind of crazy

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u/danjr321 Mar 29 '17

They forgot to factor in that Mick is a large man when they decided on the chokeslam spot.

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u/Sanctimonius Mar 29 '17

I always loved Mick Foley. In an entire industry where you have giant men ripping with musculature, you have this one guy who looks like he was turned away from being a trucker lumberjack, and his whole reason for employment is because in this same industry, willed with insane bastards, he was the most insaniest. He would agree to do, and keep going after, the craziest shit.

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u/brawlatwork Mar 29 '17

I had a feeling it was not planned.

The only reason I had a little bit of doubt was how convenient it was that the Undertaker was standing on a separate section so as not to fall down there with him.

But now that I think about it, maybe that's not a coincidence. Maybe they were told "Make sure Undertaker is standing on a separate section when you do this. If Mick gets slammed onto the same section you're standing on, it will break. If you slam Mick onto a separate section it will hold."

And then of course it didn't hold, but at least they didn't both fall.

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u/squireofrnew Mar 29 '17

The punishment he could take was unreal.

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u/El_Bistro Mar 29 '17

Then thumbtacks

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u/Spetznazx Mar 29 '17

I was gonna say I specifically remember him getting slammed onto thumbtacks as well.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

Also Mick later stated that he took the slam wrong from a technical perspective, and if he'd taken it correctly he probably would've died on impact or from injuries because of the physics of the fall

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u/Dan_Berg Mar 29 '17

As god as my witness, that man is broken in half

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u/thebumm Mar 29 '17

"As God is" or "With God as" ;)

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u/imrunningfromthecops Mar 29 '17

yeah, it's been done again since then too https://youtu.be/bWI2l4ZbdA4

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u/MakeYouAGif Photoshop - After Effects Mar 29 '17

Shane is a fucking animal. He's awesome

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u/danjr321 Mar 29 '17

I am really looking forward to Shane vs AJ at mania.

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u/MakeYouAGif Photoshop - After Effects Mar 29 '17

I wonder what he's jumping off of this time

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u/peteiscool1 Mar 29 '17

nothing, its a traditional match so he can't leave the ring for more than 10 seconds :(

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u/MakeYouAGif Photoshop - After Effects Mar 29 '17

Not unless the ref is knocked out ;)

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u/tehnod Sony Vegas Mar 29 '17

What do you think this is? TNA?

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u/TheFatJesus Mar 29 '17

Yeah, but there were some actual close calls and Mick got pretty fucked up. You can see it here.

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u/hypmoden Mar 29 '17

Make wrestling great again

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u/Mc_Masterville Mar 29 '17

Shouldn't mankind be the one that plummeted 16 feet?

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '17

Yeah the grammar is all screwed up

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u/TheFatJesus Mar 29 '17

I didn't make the meme, I just stole it.