10 Times Wrestlers Tried To Murder Each Other In Wrestling History (In Kayfabe)

To its fans, professional wrestling is one of the greatest forms of escape there is on the planet. Through the art of sports entertainment, fans can live vicariously through the WWE and all promotions. We as fans can believe whatever we want, living through the emotions of matches and storylines.

Oddly enough, that also includes murderous fiends. Sometimes it's purely a case of the hatred running so deep between two opponents in a feud, whereas other times, the match stipulation itself involves something more drastic than simply getting the pinfall or submission victory. It happens a lot more than you’d think - wrestling promotions love to script storylines that involve superstars trying not just to defeat their hated rivals, but murder them as well.

10 Casket Matches / Buried Alive Matches

Perhaps the easiest instance of watching attempted murder in wrestling are actually the matches where theoretically, you have to try to kill your opponent to win. After all, why else are you trying to put someone in a casket, or you know, BURY them?

How wild is that the fans turn into bloodthirsty fans the likes not seen since The Roman Coliseum, demanding that one superstar dumps another into a coffin or worse - buries them alive?

9 The nWo Semi-Truck

Shortly after the nWo made their debut in WWE as the menacing trio, it was only natural to make the match the world thought they would ever see - Icon Vs. Icon, Hollywood Hulk Hogan Vs. The Rock. But rather than wait for WrestleMania 18 for the epic showdown, the nWo didn’t just try to take The Brahma Bull out. Hall, Nash, and Hogan whipped him and sent him packing in an ambulance.

That wasn’t good enough though - Hollywood Hogan jumped into a semi truck and drove it straight into the ambulance at The Rock. Miraculously, The Rock was fine to compete at WrestleMania.

8 Austin and Triple H Try To End Each Other

Survivor Series 2000 - Triple H Vs. Stone Cold Steve Austin

At Survivor Series 1999, the very night that he was to defend the WWE title against Stone Cold and The Rock, Triple H enacted a plan that would see Stone Cold taken out in a hit-and-run assault. Nearly a year later, the WWE found out that not only was Rikishi the culprit, but that The Game was the true mastermind behind the crime.

To return the favor, Austin took on Triple H one year later in a No Holds Barred match, the Rattlesnake tried to return the favor by lifting the car Triple H was in with a huge forklift and dropped it from 30 feet in the air.

7 Hanging The Boss Man

Not many of these took place on the grandest stage of them all, but at WrestleMania 15, the WWE Universe got a big attempt. During the first ever Hell In A Cell match to happen at The Showcase Of The Immortals, The Undertaker had The Big Boss Man dead to rights, no pun intended.

But victory wasn’t enough for The Lord Of Darkness - The Brood descended on top of the cage and lowered a noose into it, so The Phenom could string The Bossman up. Don't worry, Bossman was fine by the next night on RAW.

6 Fear The Big Red Machine

There could be an entire list devoted to atrocities committed by Kane during his career. Several of those moments include murderous intentions. Early on his career, after briefly tricking The Undertaker into a reunion, he’d cost him the world title in a casket match and then set the thing on fire.

Speaking of fire, once he was unmasked, Jim Ross tried to conduct a major interview with The Monster, but the BBQ maven would get BBQ’ed himself for his troubles. Kane also helped to bury his brother alive against Vince McMahon. He also should be in a padded cell somewhere for trying to electrocute Shane McMahon, by strapping his McMahon grapefruits up to a car battery.

5 Undertaker Buries Paul Bearer

For over a decade, The Undertaker and Paul Bearer were fairly synonymous with one each other. Paul Bearer was the one who helped The Deadman return both in 1994 and in 2004 at WrestleMania 20. But shortly after Taker returned to form at The Showcase Of The Immortals, he was in a feud with The Dudley and Paul Heyman, and they had kidnapped Bearer, making him a liability.

Rather than allow any weaknesses, after saving his friend from Heyman burying him in a Concrete Crypt, The Phenom pulled the trigger anyway.

4 Taker Locks Warrior In The Coffin

For brief moment in the spring of 1991, it seemed that The Ultimate Warrior and The Undertaker were in a collision course. They even tried to murder each other in a series of Body Bag matches on the house show circuit. But The Phenom really went for the gusto to try and get in the neon-painted nincompoop’s head on an episode of The Funeral Parlor.

He and Paul Bearer conspired and were successful in putting the Warrior in a coffin and locking it, leaving hordes of WWE officials to try and pry it open.

3 The Limo Explosion

During Mr. McMahon Appreciation Night on Raw, WWE Employees then, now, and forever all got together to pay their “respects” to the now former chairman. But they all brandished nothing but disdain for McMahon.

As he headed out of the arena, he had a serene look on his face before getting into his limo, which exploded immediately. The effect was so good, that local officials and McMahon’s associates were concerned for their friend.

2 Droz Pushes Hawk Off The Titantron

For years at least behind the scenes, Hawk wasn’t as strong as he appeared on camera and more often than not succumbed to alcoholic demons. Once clean and sober, he was the one that actually pitched a story of those problems coming to the forefront. He would stumble around the ring, sometimes come in face paint, sometimes not. It was enough that got him replaced in the LOD by the newest member, Droz.

However, it was actually Droz who was secretly still supplying Hawk with drugs and alcohol. When Hawk tried to (kayfabe) end it all, his friends Animal and Paul Ellering who tried to literally talk him down from the titantron. Droz climbed up presumably to help, but would push Hawk off instead.

1 Hogan Pushes The Giant Off The Cobo Hall

At Halloween Havoc 1995, The Giant was set to have his first ever match - challenging Hulk Hogan for the WCW title. But first the two foes had a monster truck sumo battle in top of Cobo Hall’s roof.

Hulk Hogan actually pushed the Giant off the roof. But instead of dying, he emerged moments later seemingly unscathed and ready to defeat Hogan for the title.