AskSquaredCircle: what's your worst "I was wrestling with my friend" story?

I have a few. To preface this, I used to work as a nightclub bouncer for many years. Most of these take place at staff drinks after closing time or staff parties, where we would have closed the club for a night before Christmas and had the place to ourselves. Senior management would put money behind the bar for us, so the drinks were flowing.

Bearing in mind a lot of the guys I worked with had some form of self defence/martial arts training in their background. More often than not we would assemble in a massive circle on the dancefloor and have 'winner stays on' fighting tournaments. Full contact, full speed (because hey, who cares about getting legitimately injured, right?). There was once when I hit a deadlift german suplex on a guy, who was knocked out after landing and smacking his head on the floor. The bout was stopped then and there and I was declared 'winner by way of knockout'.

A guy got his shoulder popped out by a pretty vicious takedown. Getting the staff bus to Accident and Emergency was fun, given we were all rather drunk.

Outside of the dancefloor fighting tournaments, but still at a staff party, I was standing in the corner of the bar when one of my friends came up to me and delivered a kick to my midsection. Being the cooperative worker I was, I then took a full force Pedigree on to the floorboards. Neither of us had expected the other to actually co-operate to such a degree that we would pull the move off entirely. Whilst I was laid out on the ground, a member of bar staff did his best Earl Hebner slide from across the room and counted to three.

Another incident involved similar miscommunication. We were standing by a table that had been set up with drinks, and my friend turned to me and said 'I wonder if I could chokeslam you through that table?'. He then grabbed my throat and lifted. I (again, being cooperative) jumped fairly high. Ended with me being chokeslammed on to the table, the table buckling and falling to one side, and glasses and bottles falling all over me. I had a fairly deep gash in my elbow. Went up to my boss who was also acting as first aid, who then asked me what happened. "I got chokeslammed through a table" apparently didn't fly. He told me to chill out for half an hour and drink some water, thinking I had just stumbled into the table.

Also when I was about 8 I hit a full force tombstone piledriver on a kid during lunch hour. I thought I had broken his neck as he jsut curled up into a ball and started screaming.

Finally, when drunk with friends, we started wrestling. My friend covered me in cushions from the couch, then climbed on to the arm of the couch and hit me with a Randy Savage-esque flying elbow. He landed right on my face. Ouch.

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