WWE thrives on planned drama—but sometimes, reality strikes harder than any storyline.
One such moment happened in 2001 during an episode of Metal, a relatively low-key piece in the jigsaw of WWE programming
Perry Saturn debuted as one of The Radicalz in early 2000WWEWhile the megastars of the day were grunting and groaning on Raw and SmackDown, Metal was the show were the lesser lights – relatively speaking – were given a platform to perform.
As such, it rarely featured much by way of explosive and unforgettable content – except perhaps for one night that saw an industry performer lose his cool and let loose.
Perry Saturn, a respected competitor known for his intensity, shared the ring with enhancement talent Mike Bell.
Enhancement talents in the wrestling world serve a purpose their title suggest – they’re there only to allow established stars to look good. In that sense, Bell’s job was merely to get in a move or two of his own before letting Saturn take over.
What started as a routine match escalated into something far more serious when a botched move changed everything.
Footage from the match shows the moment Saturn snapped and things went off script – attempting a routine takedown, Bell inadvertently dropped his opponent on his head and shoulder, causing the red mist to descend.
“With Mike Bell, I was wrong first of all,” the former ECW and WCW star explained in a later interview. “He dropped me on my head a couple of times. Right after another, and I freaked out.”
From that moment, Saturn’s reaction was explosive. Wrestling fans expecting a polished match were instead treated to chaos.
He delivered a stiff clothesline, and aggressively tossed Bell out of the ring where he himself landed awkwardly on his head and neck.
Bell was then rammed into the steel steps outside with more force than you’d expect to see in a match of that kind. It was a stark departure from scripted performance, with an audience of millions watching.
Commentary of the clip captures the moment even commentators were caught off guard, veteran Kevin Kelly exclaiming as Bell was dropped “right on his noggin! My goodness!”
Saturn was a late-Attitude Era powerhouse in the ringWWEAfter the landing, Bell is visibly shaken and disoriented and takes longer than usual to clamber back into the ring – where more punishment was waiting for him.
Thankfully, the bout was mercifully short at just three minutes, Bell put out of his misery as Saturn stood tall.
“I jut went off,” he added. “Most of it I don’t remember. I was out on my feet.”
He certainly remembers the backlash that followed, though.
“The thing Vince [McMahon] and everybody was most p***** about was this,” he explained, referring to dropping Bell on his head on the outside of the ring, accidently, he said.
“Everything was blurry… As I start to get my composure, I start to think: ‘calm the f*** down!’
Saturn lost his cool and attacked Bell for real, but the biggest blow was seemingly accidentalWWE Saturn once held championship gold in the ring but was scalded backstage for losing his coolWWE“I grabbed him so I could [throw him out] and take a minute to calm down. I didn’t throw him out to try to hurt him, he just took a bad fall… I was throwing him out to save him!”
Discussing more of the fallout, he said: “They weren’t pleased… Vince said: ‘What the f*** are you doing? If you got a problem, take care of it back here, you can’t take care of it out there in front of everybody.”
Saturn’s career and life story have taken many turns. He battled addiction, overcame homelessness in later life and, now 58, is long removed from in-ring competition having boasted a career that included multiple tag team championship runs in addition to a stint as European Champion in WWE.
Sadly, bell died in 2008 of a heart attack, a year after wrestling for the final time at the age of just 37.
By that time, he’d already racked up ten years wrestling on and off for WWE, battling legends including Triple H and The Undertaker.
Having made them all look good on their way to victory, fans will remember the night Saturn made himself look bad by losing control in the ring.
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