10 Amazing Stories Behind One-Off WWE Attires

10. Shawn Michaels On Brown Alert

It's unanimous amongst wrestling fans that the mucky brown pants that the otherwise sartorially-spot on Shawn Michaels donned for his Survivor Series 2002 World Heavyweight Championship victory are perhaps the worst crime ever committed against the very concept of vision. Even the Heartbreak Kid himself has described it as the most embarrassing night of his career thanks to the excremental attire (although he may have privately revised that opinion following the Crown Jewel farce).

So why exactly did the Showstopper don such disastrous dress? In the same autobiography that he laments the leggings, Shawn explains that having recently discovered Christianity, he wanted 'Earth' coloured kegs to represent his creation by God (we're not sure, either). Unfortunately, he pitched the request to WWE's seamstress way too late, and on the night of the show she only had an unfinished set of dirty brown peasant pants, emblazoned with just a single trademark heart. To be fair, it's probable they'd have looked just as bad completed.

Backstage, WWE's resident Noel Coward Stephanie McMahon told Shawn he "looked like a giant turd", whilst Triple H - who, as we'll get onto, wore three-quarter cycling shorts a year later, let's not forget - laughed in his buddy's face. This was sh*t attire on every level.