10 Dumbest Wrestling Controversies That Went Too Far

4. Renewed Competition Gets Ugly

Things got spicy when the AEW Vs. WWE war first started to unfold.

It was wild west sh*t, man; mocking the way WWE wrestlers stand in front of a TV and aiming a few gags in the direction of John Laurinaitis is positively quaint in comparison.

AEW booked a charity show; WWE counter-programmed with an EVOLVE show to prevent all of about 16 people from potentially donating to a worthy cause. "Yes, shame about the victims of gun violence, but check out Babatunde Vs. Joe Gacy in a 4:24 DQ on the critically-acclaimed WWE Network!"

That isn't even a joke. That match was actually booked live on the WWE Network to encourage WWE loyalists. not to watch a charity event.

It was all and still is petty, dumb nonsense - choose your billionaire fighter! - and it was taken too far on Twitter after wind-up merchant CM Punk claimed he was going to shoot on every promotion (nobody is safe!) in his guise as a WWE Backstage analyst.

Tony Khan said that Punk's words reminded him of a plane full of wrestlers in Saudi Arabia; Randy Orton accused Khan's father Shahid of corruption and hypocrisy. In response to that, Khan reminded Orton that he dropped an N-Bomb on a Twitch stream.

A dangerous game of slander couldn't even make Backstage interesting in the end.