The worst beatdown in pro wrestling history

16-years ago, I vividly remember watching World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE), then World Wrestling Federation (WWF), Superstars one Saturday morning and little did I know I would witness one of the worst, if the not the worst, beatdown in professional wrestling history.

It was 1992 and the Big Bossman was one of the company's top faces (good guys). He had been doing the occasional match here and there but wasn't involved in a main-storyline. All that was about to change as for weeks and months, vignettes aired throughout WWE programming that were narrated by a voice-over and filmed inside a prison facility.

The voice-over would talk about how the Bossman and other correctional officers had beaten the inmates, dragged them down the halls so violently that the inmates fingernail marks were embedded in the wet cement floor and that he was innocent. However, we never saw anyone during this vignettes so no one knew who this person was.

Fast forward to the day in question and the Bossman had just successfully won his match against a jobber and was slapping some sense into his opponent when out from the audience emerged a hulking figure decked out in an orange jump-suit, carrying a night-stick.

This figure rolled into the ring and when the Bossman turned around, this ex-convict nailed the Bossman with the night-stick and then proceeded to lay-out one of the most violent and worst beatdowns in wrestling history.

I was almost eight-years old at the time and was scared at what I was seeing. Even though my parents had told me about how the wrestlers practiced their moves and were friends in real life, I still had that mentality that most of it was legit as shocking television wasn't as common as it is today.

I could not believe how bad the Bossman was getting beat up, especially the sickening crack-sound I heard when this hulking figure took the night-stick and smacked it across the Bossman's legs. I also remember the photos that were published in WWE Magazine shortly after this beatdown that showed a bloody and bruised Bossman.

The person's name in question was Nailz and his feud with the Bossman culminated at Survivor Series 1992 in a "night-stick on a pole match," where the Bossman extracted his revenge. That would also be the last time Nailz would have a match on WWE television as he was fired a month later in Dec. 1992 for reportedly attacking WWE owner Vince McMahon in his office.

Below is a video clip courtesy of youtube that will show the beatdown in question. 16-years later and I'm still in shock over how violent and legit the beatdown was. Just listen if you don't believe me.