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For decades, the spectacle of wrestling has gone hand in hand with fireworks and pyrotechnics. But what happens when things don't go as planned? Adam Blampied takes a look at the top 10 biggest pyro mistakes in wrestling history!
0:00 - Introduction
0:56 - #10
2:19 - #9
3:12 - #8
3:57 - #7
4:39 - #6
5:30 - #5
6:12 - #4
6:53 - #3
7:40 - #2
8:24 - #1
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For decades, the spectacle of wrestling has gone hand in hand with fireworks and pyrotechnics. But what happens when things don't go as planned? Adam Blampied takes a look at the top 10 biggest pyro mistakes in wrestling history!
0:00 - Introduction
0:56 - #10
2:19 - #9
3:12 - #8
3:57 - #7
4:39 - #6
5:30 - #5
6:12 - #4
6:53 - #3
7:40 - #2
8:24 - #1
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00:00I mean I think you can guess why we're talking about bad pyro this week, huh? And don't you worry,
00:04we'll get to that. But for decades upon decades, the spectacle of pro wrestling has gone hand in
00:09hand with pyrotechnics. From the drop-dead gorgeous tableaus like Charlotte's fireworks
00:14display at Mania 32, to amazing character-specific light shows like Sid's, you know he didn't design
00:19it himself because it's spelled right, all the way to the laughable excess of WCW's insane
00:25overuse of fireworks. Just look at that money burn. Genuinely, it's one of the best aspects of
00:31marquee wrestling. It's the backbone of creating some of the most iconic entrances of all time,
00:36and of course, sometimes it goes wrong, sometimes it goes super dangerous, and sometimes it goes
00:41really, really funny. Prime the trigger, cover your eyes, and hope for the best. These are the
00:4510 biggest pyro blunders in wrestling history. Before we kick into the list, we just want to
00:50thank Surfshark for sponsoring this video. Stick around at the end for more information on a great
00:54deal for a great VPN. Number 10. Let's get it out of the way now, because yes, it's funny,
01:00but it's also a damn shame. At the end of last week's AEW Revolution, a good show lest we forget,
01:06we saw the exploding barbed wire deathmatch, a feud-ending cartoon stipulation with the explicit
01:12promise of hyper-violence. After 30 minutes, we were warned, the ring would explode and people
01:17could be killed. It's a direct love letter to Atsushi Onita's very silly legacy for explosions
01:23in frontier martial arts wrestling, to the point where Onita actually filmed himself hyping the
01:28match for AEW. For the sake of comparison, this is how the exploding cage match between Onita and
01:33Wing Kanemura ended. This is how the Revolution match ended. Literally, Eddie Kingston performed
01:38something of a heroic face turn, throws himself on Moxley, the sirens blaring, goosebumps appearing
01:44on the arms of everyone, and then a few dribbles of sparks and tiny boom booms. Apparently the pyro
01:50sequence was all off, the explosions were meant to be bigger, but man, that would be considered
01:54underwhelming at a chucky f***ing cheese. And what's worse, they sold it. If they'd pretended
01:59that Kenny was trolling everyone, that's one thing, but commentary sold it, the paramedics sold it,
02:05Eddie sold it like he had actually died. Oh, I feel so bad making fun of it, because if that
02:10explosion had looked like this, and then the pay-per-view feed cut, then we might be talking
02:14about the angle of the decade, instead of…ugh. 9. What's worse than bad pyro? No pyro.
02:22Quick incident to debunk first. People share it as a semi-famous botch that Kane's pyro
02:26apparently malfunctioned back on Raw in 2005, but that's not the case. If you look at the match,
02:30there are no fire canisters on the post. Instead, Kane made his entrance during a commercial break
02:34and was just goofing around when he raised and lowered his arms because he knew the flames
02:37wouldn't go off, which is why him and Big Show are cracking up about it. Which is not to say
02:40there haven't been plenty of moments where superstars expected a boom and no boom came.
02:45Kofi's full pyro didn't go off at Mania 26. Even more noticeably, Shawn Michaels' pyro
02:50didn't go off at Mania 28. Shawn's super good at hiding his pyro-related annoyance,
02:54as you can see here. And Kane's pyro is actually properly officially
02:58malfunctioned once live on Raw, but in 2002. On April 1st, appropriately, Kane throws his hands
03:04down. Nothing happens. Then 10 full seconds later, they go off and Kane absolutely buckles.
03:11It's awesome. 8. Randy Waits
03:14Some say that Randy Orton is still pointing at the WrestleMania 25 sign. You all want to see
03:18Randy Orton looking cross? Me too. Here he is having a massive grump on. He's just won the 2009
03:24Royal Rumble. He points at the sign to cue a massive burst of pyro. Nothing happens,
03:28so he waits. Keeps pointing, thinking, starting this moment, from now, from this moment on,
03:34this will be the moment, starting now, of the genesis of my pyro. But it still doesn't go off.
03:40He goes to the middle of the ring, points again. F***ing nothing, lads. And before he loses it,
03:43Charles Robertson politely reminds Randy that the agreed-upon shot was him standing on the
03:48turnbuckle and pointing, which he finally does. And mercifully, the pyro goes off,
03:52and look at his cross face. You hate to see it. You love to see it.
03:567. We Don't Need No Water, Let The Motherf***er Burn
03:59The main event of WrestleMania 33 didn't really go how people wanted it to. It was planned to be
04:03the grand emotional farewell to Smokey Robinson, with him taking one last L at the show of shows
04:09for undressing down to his cock and bollocks, leaving his clothes out for the maid and retiring
04:13through the floor. That did not happen, many parties were unsatisfied with the quality of
04:17Taker's supposed last ride, and even the fates themselves showed their displeasure by setting the
04:22actual stage on fire. Taker's entrance and exit always requires a lot of flames,
04:26because how else would you know that he's dead, and as the pomp and circumstance raged,
04:30one of the burners caused the set to catch fire, belching a huge plume of black smoke
04:34into the air, which of course the fans in attendance were more than happy to immortalise on
04:38Twitter. 6. Don't Scare Cody's Dog
04:41Now I'm serious, don't scare Cody's dog. That is not cool. Cody Rhodes has a bloody excellent dog,
04:47called Pharaoh, the goodest of all possible boys, a snow wolf inhabited with the souls
04:51of a thousand noble samurai, an AEW startled him with loud pyro, and that's f***ing inexcusable.
04:57It was all out 2019, and Cody was wrestling Sean Spears. As Cody made his entrance,
05:01he was accompanied by the very best dog in the history of dogs, when mortars, aka the very loud
05:06big bang pyros, accidentally fired spooking poor Pharaoh, who was visibly freaking out but still
05:12had to go through with the rest of the entrance, and man, everyone was pissed about this. Cody was
05:16angry, Brandy was apparently furious, Tony Khan was upset, because of course they were, someone
05:20scared Pharaoh, and men have died for less. For real though, pyro is serious business, and even
05:25if no one gets hurt, the wrong effects going off puts lives at risk. Case in point, number five,
05:30they nearly burn Undertaker's entire f***ing head. Hello again Undertaker, pyrotechnicians are not
05:36finished with you. So it's July 1998, and the opening match of Monday Night Raw, pitting Vader
05:41against shoulder pad smolder dad, who stands at the corner turnbuckle, as he's done many many times
05:46before. Normally, Taker raises his arms, and the lights go from crime scene blue to normal house
05:51lights, because magic. What happens this time, is Kane's pyro goes off, right in Taker's goddamn
05:57face. That's not cool, that's the opposite of cool. Genuinely, how do you almost burn off the
06:03face that haunts the place? Jeez, Taker looks rightfully pissed, but thankfully he emerged
06:08from this incident unscathed, and Undertaker never had problems with pyro again in the end.
06:12Number four, oh TNA. There's something very TNA about setting fire to your own arena at the
06:17beginning of a pay-per-view, forcing wrestlers to go shoot promos in the parking lot, somewhere
06:21the ghost of WCW was watching ongoing. That's my boy. So during Hard Justice 2006, a sack in the
06:27rafters was set on fire by the show's opening pyro, TNA sabotaging itself literally at the
06:32very first possible moment of the night. In order to extinguish the fire, dry powder was dumped into
06:37the arena during the opening match, pitting Eric Young against Johnny Devine. Like absolute pros,
06:42or like people who don't really have their priorities right when you think about it,
06:45Eric and Johnny finish up their match, and the entire audience politely filed outside,
06:50while Marshalls made sure the show was safe to continue.
06:52Number three, Triple H is the world's angriest cake. Nothing funny about this,
06:57unless you think that Triple H getting coated in the world's most painful frosting while he's
07:00trying to be the toughest Skull Daddy in all the dungeon is funny, and that would not be very cash
07:04money of you. In all seriousness, it's never fun when someone gets hurt, unless it's this time. No,
07:08let's be serious, it's not funny, but it is. At WrestleMania 29, Trips was doing the normal
07:12hyper-macho thing he likes to do at WrestleMania, Terminator Skulls, Mad Max, Freezer Burn Bukkake,
07:17the guy's a rough tough son of a bee sting. He was emerging from a big skull when some dry ice
07:21pyro misfired right across his tummy, giving the impression that he'd been startled and dropped a
07:25trifle on himself. For real, the dry ice gave him second degree burns, and if that happened to me,
07:30I would have burst into tears, run home, or died, whichever was quickest, and mad props to him for
07:34then going on to wrestle Brock Lesnar of all people, but also, you know.
07:39Number two, for those of you in the back. Bloody hell, I know Vince is a Republican CEO,
07:44and Republican CEOs feel a certain sort of way about those in the cheap seats,
07:47but I'm going on record as saying that setting those people on fire is bang out of order. Not
07:51often we take a stance here at Parts of Unknown, but we draw the line about shooting explosives at
07:55your paying customers. At WrestleMania 24, after the main event between Edge and Chexnote,
07:59f***ing Undertaker again, mate what did you do to piss off the pyrotechnics union? Fireworks
08:03were rigged to shoot down cables from the upper bowl of the stadium down to the rig above the ring.
08:07Most of the fireworks made it, however, one of the cables snapped, sending the hot cable down
08:11into where the fans were sitting, with the firework also landing and exploding in and
08:15amongst the seats. 45 people were hospitalized, thankfully no one was killed, and Undertaker
08:19got to enjoy his world title victory, and surely that is the end of Undertaker's unfortunate number
08:24one. They set the Undertaker fully on f***ing fire, oh my god. Makes sense he wouldn't want
08:28to retire, eh? It's one of the most famous cases of pyro gone wrong, THE case of pyro gone wrong,
08:34but in case you're new to this game, at Elimination Chamber 2010, Undertaker was making his entrance,
08:38the one with the fireballs in it, when the pyro guy let off a fireball right underneath
08:42Mark Crackling's feet, which resulted in the phenom storming to the ring,
08:46faster than he's ever moved in his life, getting into a pod and then just having to stand there
08:49for 20 minutes, dousing himself with bottled water when the cameras weren't looking,
08:53very slowly braising himself, all the while smelling his own cooking meat. He legit suffered
08:58serious burns, and had he not swapped the coat he was wearing at the very last minute for one
09:02that covered his arms, his injuries could have been much more devastating. Needless to say the
09:06pyro guy was immediately fired and removed from the building before the end of the match,
09:10because otherwise, Taker probably would have straight killed that man.
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