How many ambulance matches in wwe

Reigns and Strowman are set to collide at Sunday's Great Balls of Fire pay-per-view in a street fight that ends with one man stuffed inside an ambulance. This will be only the fifth Ambulance match in WWE history. Kane battled in the first one in A nine-year gap followed before WWE returned to the gimmick. Once again, Kane suited up for it. The Ambulance match has yet to produce a classic, but the bouts have gotten better each time.

Reigns and Strowman's history together suggests they will eclipse the previous editions of the bout. Under the rules of the straightforward stipulation, wrestlers club each other until one is beaten down enough to not resist being pushed inside an ambulance. That formula has created a number of unique moments born of emergency vehicle-assisted violence. In , Kane terrorized Shane McMahon and his family.

The stalking monster attacked McMahon's mother, Linda McMahon, and famously electrocuted his testicles. McMahon and Kane spent much of the match fighting backstage, clubbing each other with anything that was within reach. When the battle moved to where the ambulance was parked near the entrance ramp, the vehicle proved to be an equalizer. McMahon slammed the monster into the side of the ambulance and cracked him in the head with one of its doors. He leaped off its roof with his elbow cocked.

The spots were awkward at times, but this is the kind of bout McMahon was built for, one where he can use his stuntman skills to add to the action. Kane vs. John Cena : Elimination Chamber Strowman was then sidelined for a couple of weeks while he had elbow surgery, but he returned recently in the back of an ambulance to attack Reigns on Monday Night RAW two weeks ago and challenged him to an Ambulance match at Great Balls of Fire.

In Ambulance matches, there are no pinfalls, no submissions, no disqualification, and no countouts. There is only one way which a superstar can win and that is by forcing their opponent into the back of an ambulance and closing the doors behind them. In the history of Ambulance matches, there have only been four, two of which have been won by John Cena, one by Kane, and one by Bray Wyatt.

Cena's two Ambulance match wins came next, with the first happening at Elimination Chamber in against the first ever Ambulance match winner Kane. In the midst of a feud with Awesome at the time, none other than DDP burst through the doors of an ambulance backstage to attack Mike and cost him the match.

This was after Shane Douglas had already interfered - but hadn't Awesome just won by putting Wall through the wood? Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood.

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