John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Vince McMahon: 15 most horrific injuries in WWE history

Wrestling is a physical sport, and that means that WWE Superstars can sometimes pick up some serious injuries.

Sometimes injuries aren’t that bad, and the Superstar only needs a few weeks out, but in other instances, they are really quite serious.

Off the back of Big E’s horrible neck break in March, which he shared a worrying update about recently, we decided to look at the worst injuries in WWE history.

So, with a warning for the squeamish, here are the 15 most horrific injuries in WWE history, and footage of the exact moment they happened.

Edge was forced into early retirement in 2011, after suffering from neck issues for several years.

But it was actually a Spear that he hit on Brodus Clay in April 2011 that forced him to have to step away from the ring for nine years.

Edge immediately felt his neck after hitting the Spear (0:40 in the embedded video), and it was clear that he’d done some damage.

MRIs said that Edge had cervical spinal stenosis, and doctors wouldn’t clear him to step back into the ring over fears he could end up paralysed, or even dead.

Thankfully, after nine years away, Edge was able to get cleared and step back into the ring, but for a period of time, the injury was so serious that it looked like he’d never be able to wrestle again.

Another neck injury coming up next as we look at Sting’s match with Seth Rollins at Night of Champions in 2015.

Rollins hit Sting with a buckle bomb, one of his signature moves, but things went wrong, and it was clear that Sting was immediately hurt.

Like Edge, medical tests confirmed that Sting was suffering from cervical spinal stenosis, and he was forced to retire from in-ring competition.

Also like Edge, that wasn’t the end of the story for Sting, as five years