Botchamania-worthy moments NOT caught on tape

[Burst]

I just thought it'd be cool to have a thread to post the botches you've seen at indy shows and stuff that weren't being taped, or whose recordings haven't been uploaded or what have you.

Example: earlier this month I went to Remix Pro Wrestling's Throwdown for the Pound 2 in my hometown; in a tag match between Deep South and a team I can't remember, one of the Deep South members has got his opponent laid out, and motions to the crowd that he's about to do something flippy.

He goes for a Standing SSP, but misses his opponent completely, realizing this when he lands and token slapping his opponent who doesn't even bother selling, before standing up, shrugging, and continuing the match like nothing ever happened.

It was the reactions that really sold it, but yeah.

[BitterAF]

Any wrestler that crapped their pants during a match.

[triplethreatmark]

It was a scary botch, but no one got seriously hurt, so it's cool. At this past PWG show (The Curse of Guerrilla Island) during the great Chris Hero/Joey Ryan/Claudio Castignoli/Brandon Gatson match, there was a super-plex spot between Claudio and Gatson and they were doing the whole "punch and whose got control" thing. Claudio finally got "control" of Gatson and was about to Super-plex him but Gatson lost his balance and fell to the outside taking Claudio with him and they both crashed into the chairs and hard.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

I was at an indie show once and a guy named Billy Maverick comes out. He was actually pretty good, and I think made his 213 ranking in the PWI 500 part of his gimmick. But he gets in the ring and starts posing in the turnbuckles, and I can't help but notice - going by the lines that are showing through, he put his tighty whiteys on backward before putting on his tights. I point it out to my dad and we start laughing. He sees us laughing and comes over to the ropes and yells, "What's so funny?!" which just cracked us up even more.

[strykerdarksilence]

I had a few.

Botching the Flair/Sgt Slaughter corner bump to the outside and coming down face first into a front row seat for example.

[Mr Captain Falcon]

I was at the 2007 Draft show in Wilkes Barre. Umaga made quick work of Balls Mahoney, so Raw gets a draft pick and it's King Bookah! So Bookah stands on the ramp doing his pose while Umaga glares from the ring, and Bookah's pyro is going off on the stage and they go to commercial. Umaga heads backstage and burns his bare feet on the stage where the pyro was and he starts jumping around. Everyone had a good chuckle.

[Woooooolhouse!]

One match that was advertised- Summerslam '00 main event Triple Threat match with "Stone Cold" Steve Austin, Triple H, and Mankind. Guest referee is Jesse "The Body/Governor" Ventura. Shane McMahon runs into the ring, and Ventura throws him back out. Austin gets in on that celebration and mounts the ropes and flips up and over, tying himself upside down and outside by one leg. The camera misses EVERYTHING!!! If you weren't there live, you saw just a small part of Austin's leg on the far side of the screen. But if you listened to the alternate commentary on the DVD from all three participants, you got to hear them make light of the situation. Which would have been hilarious to see. Apparently Austin was even cracking up while stuck in that situation.

[bowman]

I unknowingly caused a botch at a local GCW show here in St. Louis some years back. Jack Adonis was wrestling this other guy (name escapes me) who used to catch hell from the crowd for having a mullet. Anyway, at the beginning of the show, an attendant came over and put a trash can right at the end of our row and said, "here's a trash can for you guys". Being ridiculous wrestling fans, we reacted in an overwhelming "Hell Yeah!! That's our trash can!!!" kind of way and it was an ongoing joke in our section throughout the night.

So the match spills to the outside and into the crowd and these guys start hitting each other with everything not tied down. As they neared our prized trash can, I dove in, grabbed the can and brought it back into the where a group of us were standing earning numerous cheers and high fives from my fellow idiots. I mean, we were told it was our trash can, and humor be damned we didn't want any harm to come to it. So mullet guys reaches over and grabs thin air wondering where the hell the trash can is and kind of shrugs and turns around to brawl with Adonis. I guess the trash can wasn't "for us" after all, as it was supposed to be used in the match. It's all on tape.

[Spyke the Pacers Fan]

About 2 years ago I was attending a local indy show with a friend who had previously wrestled for them and during the opening match a guy who I'm told by my friend is "their new big guy they're trying to push as their #1 heel." He hits the ring and clears out all 4 competitors. My friend continues, "This guy sucks. I guarantee you he will screw something up big here." Sure enough, moments later, the guy goes to put his exclamation point on the whole thing. He's gonna hit his finisher on one of the guys. He gets him up onto his shoulders like he's going for a Death Valley Driver. He suddenly loses his balance, falls backwards and to the side, and nearly drops the dude right on his neck. Of course he snaps back up and celebrates as if nothing went wrong. But it was painfully obvious to the crowd of 30-40 people that he screwed up and he was pretty much laughed out of the ring.

[Crappler El 0 M]

I was at a house show in Atlanta where the fans were chanting 'USA!' during a Tugboat v. Warlord match (Maffew sometimes includes inexplicable crowd chants). Warlord was not billed from 'Parts Unknown' and was not playing an Anti-American and Tugboat was not playing a patriotic American so I thought it was very odd.