10 Controversial WWE Attitude Era Moments You Totally Forgot About

10. Shawn Michaels Digitally Stimulates Sunny

"Technically, this was not the Attitude Era. One Night Only happened on September 20, 1997. Vince McMahon formally introduced the Attitude Era on December 15, 1997. You are incorrect by 86 days."

Shawn Michaels fingered Sunny live on pay-per-view. It wasn't like Tugboat was getting kids to do the airhorn on the undercard.

Interviewed ahead of the European Championship match he won despite the British Bulldog promising to in honour of his dying sister - the "idea" "being" that Davey Boy Smith was to win the title back "in a different school" - Michaels was slouched by Sunny's side, said that he was "randy", and that he'd come to England to do two things: mug off a cancer patient and get his end away. Sunny, setting out the stakes for the main event and asking for Shawn's thoughts received, instead, his fingers. Her voice floated in an excited flutter before she collected herself.

There's something of a double standard to parse here.

Mickie James: imitates sexual act on pay-per-view when WWE is rated TV-14, gets absolutely b*llocked backstage.

Shawn Michaels: intimates sexual act on pay-per-view when the WWF is rated PG, is enabled to sh*t-can loyal servant Bret Hart out of the company two months later.