10 Moments That Literally Stopped WWE Wrestling Matches

10. Cesaro Has No Time For Your Beachball Bullsh*t

Given how we've only just started to see fans fully back in attendance for wrestling shows, it feels like a lifetime ago that there was a fleeting fad of having audiences pass a beachball around during WWE events.

By all accounts, this is something that seemed to start the night after WrestleMania 32. While some fans saw this merely as a way to have fun and 'be a part of the show', others found it an annoying distraction that took away from whatever action was taking place in the squared circle.

One person who just simply was not playing this sh*t, was Cesaro.

When a beachball started to bounce around at SummerSlam 2017, the Swiss Superman stopped his and Sheamus' Raw Tag Team Championship defence against Dean Ambrose and Seth Rollins to address this issue. And by address this issue, that meant running into the crowd, grabbing the problematic beachball and ripping it into pieces.

Shortly after this PPV, WWE actually put a ban on beachballs being allowed at any and all WWE events - and Cesaro even campaigned to have a "No Beachballs" t-shirt made.

Authored by Andrew Pollard

Senior Writer

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First Posted On: 5th Aug 2021

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