ESPN - Top 5 Worst Moments in WWE History

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3. Dead Fathers Who Aren't Really Dead and Who Aren't Really Fathers
Pro-wrestling isn't just a family affair for the McMahons. In 2002, WWE Diva/proud bimbo Torrie Wilson worked an angle with her actual father, Al Wilson. In a nutshell: hapless geezer Al falls in love with and then marries Torrie's rival, the beautiful yet evil Dawn Marie; the two wed on TV, in the ring and (for some reason) in their underwear. During their honeymoon, Al slips into a coma and "dies." But that's fine by Dawn Marie, because she later reveals that she was attracted to Torrie all along.

As insipid and repugnant as this was, another "dead dad" plot may top it. In 1999, the Big Show's "father" died of cancer. At the "funeral," the rotten-to-the-core Big Bossman showed up, chained the deceased's coffin to his truck, and then dragged it -- and the corpse -- around the cemetery. Appalling, in every way something can be appalling. (Incidentally, the Big Show's father didn't really die of cancer; for storyline purposes, the scriptwriters gave him a fictional family -- proving that there are people out there who, unlike the McMahons and the Wilsons, don't want to humiliate themselves on television.)
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:lol :lol
 
Jesus. How come WWE is so popular? It's so fake and stupid. I've seen it once. It's a real weird show with plenty of bad acting and hot chicks.

Go watch Tour de France or something. GO LANCE ARMSTRONG GO!
 
Ruzbeh said:
Jesus. How come WWE is so popular? It's so fake and stupid. I've seen it once. It's a real weird show with plenty of bad acting and hot chicks.

Go watch Tour de France or something. GO LANCE ARMSTRONG GO!
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uh oh.
 
What made the hand thing that much worse was after it happened, when you saw the hand and were going "What the FUCK?!" the "paramedics" went "Let's give her a hand, congratulations!" and they all clapped. I mean, god. :lol
 
Ruzbeh said:
Jesus. How come WWE is so popular? It's so fake and stupid.
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i like pro wrestling in all (though its mostly the early 90s stuff I like) but anyone else find it funny that there's an article on pro wrestling on ESPN? I thought ESPN only covered competitive sports, not obvious staged entertainment :D
 
Pellham said:
i like pro wrestling in all (though its mostly the early 90s stuff I like) but anyone else find it funny that there's an article on pro wrestling on ESPN? I thought ESPN only covered competitive sports, not obvious staged entertainment :D
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ESPN Page 2 is more about entertainment and sports together. ESPN Page 3 is about entertainment.
 
There are tons of angles that were dumber than mark henry.

god, remember when the japanese guys cut val venis' penis off?
 
Ruzbeh said:
Jesus. How come WWE is so popular? It's so fake and stupid. I've seen it once. It's a real weird show with plenty of bad acting and hot chicks.

Go watch Tour de France or something. GO LANCE ARMSTRONG GO!
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you apparently have no idea what kind of people would click on this thread.

"DAMN MAN! RUZBEH IS RIGHT! LETS PUT DOWN THE TIGHTS AND WATCH ME SOME BIKE-TIGHTS!"

Anyways, the end of that article was just fantastic, with the quote by the Heartbreak Kid (which is, I may add, one of the best names ever.)

espn.com said:
An exchange between wrestler Shawn Michaels and his on-screen "boss" Eric Bischoff best sums up my position: Michaels came out on TV and lambasted Triple-H for his "Katie Vick" shtick, prompting Bischoff to ask, "Oh, does a little necrophilia offend you as a Christian, Shawn?" To wit, Michaels replied, "No, it offends me as a wrestling fan."
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What else is sad is that all these storylines happened in like the four year stretch that I actually watched wrestling.... from 8th grade til maybe my junior year of high school (98 til 01). I think the Blue Blazer one deserves to be thrown in that list as well. I mean, I'm not one to trample a mans grave, but the only thing worse than Owen Hart dying by plumetting from the roof of a stadium and landing head-first on a ringpost (who could have scripted that, by the way?) is the fact he did it dressed in blue tights with feathers for a storyline that had no purpose whatsoever. This is the equivalent of them telling Ric Flair "Ok Ric, we're gonna put you in some yellow spandex for two weeks, have you run around the ring not doing anything... and then we're gonna have you get hit by a truck. For realz."
 
After delivering an interminably rambling and unfunny monologue
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All of Triple H's monologues could have garnered their own spot on that list.

The Big Show/Boss Man thing was one of those that, as you watch it happen, makes you say "Aw, man, come on." And then months and years later you can't help but laugh yourself silly over it.
 
Spectral Glider said:
Plus, somebody has to post the Bossman poem...I know somebody has it.
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"With Deepest Regrets and tears that are soaked,

I’m sorry to hear that your dad finally croaked.

He lived a full life on his own terms,

Soon he’ll be buried and eaten by worms.

But if I could have a son as stupid as you,

I’d have wished for cancer so I could die too.

So be brave, and be strong, get your life back on track

‘Cause the old bastard is dead and he ain’t coming back!"
 
A nice reminder that non-wrestling angles do not belong on a wrestling show. WWE deserves to be sh*t on for all the retarded angles they've put on air, but I've yet to see ESPN say anything positive about professional wrestling.
 
DMczaf said:
"With Deepest Regrets and tears that are soaked,

I’m sorry to hear that your dad finally croaked.

He lived a full life on his own terms,

Soon he’ll be buried and eaten by worms.

But if I could have a son as stupid as you,

I’d have wished for cancer so I could die too.

So be brave, and be strong, get your life back on track

‘Cause the old bastard is dead and he ain’t coming back!"
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Yeah, that's it. Like reading Emily Dickinson. :D
 
"Hey, wait a second ... " the astute fan may say, "I've been following the career of Kane for years. And hadn't they established that, as a child, Kane was trapped in a fire, which destroyed his vocal chords and left him so horribly disfigured that he had to wear a mask for most of his life? And now we find out he was hanging out with girls and going to parties? Isn't re-writing history like that sort of appalling?"
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This is why I stopped watching. If you're going to insult my intelligence as a viewer, do it in a roundabout manner.
 
That Big Show/Bossman cemetary sketch was great! Seeing Big Show riding on the coffin as the Bossman drove off was just one of those "wow" moments. :lol
 
3kuSaS said:
A nice reminder that non-wrestling angles do not belong on a wrestling show. WWE deserves to be sh*t on for all the retarded angles they've put on air, but I've yet to see ESPN say anything positive about professional wrestling.
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I've seen ESPN give props to wrestlers. They had an entire article once talking up Dwayne Johnson back when he was still The Rock, and how he played football with Warren Sapp and all that.

Actually, I believe they had a piece a few years back covering ex-football players gone to wrestling. Bill Goldberg was on OTL once, too, I think. So they're not COMPLETELY mean to wrestling... they'll give credit where its due.
 
DMczaf said:
I like how were not even upset that the old woman gave birth period, its the fact it was to a PLASTIC HAND! :lol WWE...
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I think her flashing the crowd at (what was it, Survivor Series?) was much worse than that. I was fucking gagging after that shit.
 
Ruzbeh said:
Jesus. How come WWE is so popular?
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:lol

Some people never learn.

And isn't wrestling like not even half as popular as it was 5 years ago? I was under the impression that pro wrestling was in sort of a down turn?
 
Yep, the ratings are less than half of what they used to be. But its still a profitable industry, and they still have the highest rated show on cable.
 
I was at the Smackdown taping where Bossman dragged Big Show's fathers coffin around. It was the same Smackdown where Arnold Swarzenegger went on to promote End of Days. The entire audience was rolling.

Romancing the ironically-named Mae Young, a former female wrestler in her 80s. Mae, it seems, was also a nymphomaniac; several times, she tried to flash the crowd. This dreadful and completely non-entertaining love affair culminated with Mae's announcement that she was pregnant; eventually, on live TV, she inexplicably gave birth to a plastic hand.
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I had completely forgotten about that one. :lol :lol :lol
 
Wasn't the whole "birth of the plastic hand" Vince Russo's idea? I'm at a loss as to how anybody can conceive of such a thing.
 
I meant the angle. Hell... if you've got answer to how somebody can conceive a plastic hand, I'd like to hear that too.
 
Laguna X said:
I meant the angle. Hell... if you've got answer to how somebody can conceive a plastic hand, I'd like to hear that too.
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Thing knocked her up. Er, wait... Plastic? That, I can't explain.
 
JC10001 said:
I was at the Smackdown taping where Bossman dragged Big Show's fathers coffin around. It was the same Smackdown where Arnold Swarzenegger went on to promote End of Days. The entire audience was rolling.
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I remember being so mad that they would give Arnold an honorary WWF title but not Owen Hart. Then Arnold came to CA and got his hate on for illegal aliens, so it's all good now.
 
I can't believe the Pillman/Austin gun sketch didn't make it. I stopped watching WWF for about 2 years after that episode. Helped that WCW was taking off then, but I didn't flip to RAW at all for that time.
 
I don't see how Pillman gun thing is anywhere near as bad as some crusty old bitch squirting a plastic hand out of her clam.
 
triste said:
I don't see how Pillman gun thing is anywhere near as bad as some crusty old bitch squirting a plastic hand out of her clam.
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I wasn't arguing the hand thing but it sure beats Mark Henry. Like all you guys I want to watch wrestling not shitty skits but showing a man shooting a gun at another on tv like that just seemed way over the line. And yes I do know it's a skit but the intent and the characterization are still there.
 
Guns are welcome on my wrestling shows. And at least that skit had SOME action in it, which beat 95% of current WWE programming...
 
The best part of the Mae Young thing was when the doctor said while she was giving birth:

"I'm not sure if she's pregnant! When was the last time you had a period?"
Mae - "Umm, 1962"
 
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