I recently saw the Mankind vs Undertaker Hell in a Cell match. A match that has it’s own wikipedia article: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mankind_vs._The_Undertaker
From a Biological POV How is Mick Foley still alive after being thrown two stories with just a table to break his fall? He suffered “a concussion, a dislocated jaw and shoulder, bruised ribs, internal bleeding, puncture wounds, and several teeth knocked out.” And this is all in one match.
How do these pros go through so much damage without dying and usually having long careers? Is the Human Body really capable of taking so much damage?
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The most important (and first) skill a pro wrestler learns is “bumping”, or taking the impact of a move over as large an area of their body as possible. This dissipates the energy of said impact.
Foley himself wrote that “I believe I was blessed with a perfect body for bumping: wide shoulders, wide back, wide hips, and a wide, flat ass. As a result, I don’t look that good in a pair of tight jeans, but I can absorb unbelievable punishment.”
However, he also worked up to it. He wrote about one time when, disgusted with the business, he tried to purposefully end his career, by jumping on the back of Leon “Vader” White, and then letting White slam himself backwards, sandwiching Foley between White’s body (around 400 pounds) and the floor. But he’d been basically conditioning his body for so long, that he was more or less okay.
Plus. He didn’t get away scot-free. He’s had to have a lot of surgeries in the past decade or so just to not have a crippling amount of chronic pain. IIRC, he’s had both knees and both hips replaced, along with work on his shoulders.
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