I'd have to say that Terry Funk piledriving Ric Flair onto the table at WrestleWar 89 was the best of them all.

There have been cooler ones but I don't think there's ever been as big a holy shit moment in wrestling.

Hmm... for back in the day, I really can't think of anything but that except when Randy Savage once piledrove Ricky Morton through a table in Memphis circa 1984.

I get a sick thrill anytime the table doesn't break when it was supposed to.

I would have to pick the one that really stuck out to me in my wrestling watching days and not just your average everday table bump. I'd seen the Ricky Morton one by Savage and I did think it was cool.....but I've seen it for the first time somewhat recently......so it didn't have much effect on me. But the first time I saw Dreamer get chokeslammed by Brian Lee off the Raven's Nest in the ECW Arena through all three stacked tables.......I almost had a fucking heart attack.

Foley off the cell bitches. Nothing touches it. Well except Foley when he crashes through it...

I thought the point was old school table bumps, a.k.a when they happend once every 5 years since there used to be spots almost every other week. Oh well...

Bret Hart vs Nash Survivor Series.


Was a great bump, fresh at the time and used for great dramatic effect. It even caused Nash to turn heel. Besides all that good stuff, I want to comment on "another" reason why I like it so much.

Before this match Bret was treated like crap for the longest time while we had to suffer the "New Generation" push. Bret fans were frustrated at the whole bit. I think Bret recognised this and used this emotion when he was slumping back down to the mat when Nash was about to jacknife him for the finish. Bret slumping was the symbolic burying of his career in the last several months. Nash up on top was the symbolic power of the WWF/New Generation. Bret coming out of nowhere and winning was a symbol of him beating the New Generation after being down for such a long time. Bret took all of his fans on a rollercoaster ride here. From the depths of despair to the heights of elevation. That's how I read it anyway and it was all a result of that table bump. That's why I watch wrestling. At its best there's noting cooler.

I agree with WP on Bret vs Nash. Always loved what Bret did with that table spot.

That was one of the best table spots in the WWF 90's that didn't need something like being thrown off the roof of something.

Was that an actually planned table spot at Survivor Series 95, or did Bret just say "What the hell, lets do it"? I think before that, the last table spot was when Race missed a splash through a table, which of course, was responsible for his career ending. Or am I thinking of the Michaels/Diesel table spot at GF,BE...

Damn! I was beat to it! But yes, Foley - Hell in a Cell. Choke slam off the cage onto the Spanish announce table.

Actually he was thrown off. The chokeslam had Foley break through the cell (not planned) and knocked himself out.

I know Foley swears that wasn't planned, but Taker was awfully particular about making sure Foley landed on a different section of the cell than he :blink:

I think it is Mind Games. HBK vs. Mankind. Foley takes a hit from Shawn off the apron and literally dives and turns himself over, going headfirst right into the old janky table.

Just stuck there too. Trying to find a way to describe it. Like dropping a bowling ball straight down into a drift of snow. Just stuck it.

I'm pretty sure that was a match against the Undertaker at one of the In Your House PPVs. Mind Games had the reversed super backdrop to the outside table bump.

Right you are. Must've been a Taker match. Suddenly I'm thinking Bret Hart as well for some reason. Anyway, killer bump.

It had to be when New Jack threw Vic Grimes off the scaffold in XPW :P Grime's head and shoulders hit the sides of a stack of tables, his legs bounced off the ropes, and he went hurling back into the tables.

It was disgusting, to say the least.

I've gotta agree with this. Table spots could have stopped at this point, and we wouldn't have missed a thing.

The Mankind bump in question was at King Of The Ring 1997, where he did a header into a ringside table. The match was against Helmsley, just incase anyone thought it was against Lawler.

I must've missed something. I thought we were talking Foley /Taker.

You did... 5 posts up, someones talking about the Mankind/HBK bump, but described the Mankind/HHH one from KOTR '97. DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU (yodels) UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH!

OK. Maybe if you used that handy quote feature like it was meant it would alleviate further confusion.

If the topic had maybe more than 2 discussions at once, I would, but I highly doubt anyone got confused with the "HOLY SHIT!" KOTR 98 bump and the simple "head dive" KOTR 97 bump.

When your post is on a different page than that which you are referring to, sometimes it helps to quote. No need to get pissy, just a suggestion.

To get back on topic:

I think the Foley / Taker HIAC table spot was as extreme as anything in pro-wrestling needs to be. Foley is completely lucky that he wasn't killed, and to do more than that, you are just tempting fate.

And I do believe the fall through the cage was planned. You can see that part of the cage give when they walk on it, then the deliberate slam on that exact spot by Undertaker makes me believe it was planned.

Oh, I have my setting as 25 posts per page... fine, next time I'll quote the post.

Anyway, TLC 1 features a simple, although crazy bump... Matt Hardy falling backwards from a ladder in the ring through two tables on the outside. One or two more feet more to the ropes, and he would've been splattered on the security wall.

I found Foley/Taker on some comp tape the other day, and found myself trying to find spots that were/werent planned in it. As was mentioned above, I think going through the cage was indeed planned. Obvious by Taker's ankle and Foley's shoulder, it wasn't easy at all for them to climb up or down. I don't think they wouldve climbed back up unless they had a reason to do it. I love the way that Foley says in his book that it wasn't planned, but doesn't offer any explanation to the REAL direction the match was supposed to go. Anyway. That shit was nuts, just to recap. Taker needs to stop being shitty and break out that tope once in a while as well.

Yeah. I loved when he tried it on Kane at WM XIV and ended up going through the Spanish announce table. I also vaguely remember him legdropping someone (Austin?) through the announce table from the top rope.

Edit: Yeah, Summerslam 98 is when he did the legdrop through the table. That was badass to an 11 year old.