WWF Jobber Marty Garner was injured in a match with Hunter Hearst Helmsley (Triple H) during the May 28th 1996 TV-Tapings for WWF Superstars, when he took Hunter’s Pedigree finisher the wrong way.
Garner jumped up, like you have to do for a powerbomb for example, but that led to him bumping head first into the mat, which can cause severe damage to the neck.
During a recent interview with Fightful, the former WWF enhancement talent revealed what happened that made him take the move the wrong way.
Here’s what Marty Garner had to say:
“Hunter was new there, and I was new there. I didn’t want to tell him that I didn’t know what the Pedigree was.
I had no idea what the Pedigree was, and when he said ‘Are you good with taking the Pedigree?’. I said ‘Oh yeah. Sure, man’.
When he locked me into it, it felt like it was going to be a powerbomb because he put my head between his legs. I’m like ‘Okay, I’m going to kick hard’.
I didn’t think it was a piledriver, but I didn’t really know what it was. I should’ve probably asked, looking back. It made for a good picture and it showed up in a few magazines.
A few years later it showed up again in a magazine, Triple H came up to me and goes ‘this picture is making its rounds’. ‘Yeah, it is’.
I never get any autographs from anybody, I never get anybody to sign anything, but I did get him to sign a picture of me in the air with him doing what looked like a double-underhook piledriver.
I have a picture of that signed. Of all the people, everywhere I’ve been and all the movie stars and people I’ve met, that’s the only autograph I’ve ever gotten.”
You can watch this devastating Pedigree below:
