10 More Controversial Times Wrestlers Went Off-Script

10. Ric Flair's Controversial Unscripted Promo Leads To Vince McMahon Banning Them - WWE Raw, 2004

Trying to get The Nature Boy to stick to a WWE script is something the company were evidently still struggling with as recently as August 2020. But what you may not be aware of is that Ric Flair's penchant for doing whatever the hell he pleased when equipped with a live mic actually had a rather seismic impact on the WWE landscape as a whole.

Jumping back to 2004, Flair went out of his way to cut a pretty disturbing promo that involved him bragging about his unfiltered antics with "virgins" when taking aim at Randy Orton inside of Madison Square Garden. On that night, though, Vince McMahon's company were playing host to a number of corporate sponsors, leading to the former boss understandably losing his mind over Flair's improvised line.

And as WWE writer Brian Gewirtz eventually revealed to AdFreeShows, said incident ultimately led to McMahon wanting greater control over what tumbled out of his wrestler's mouths (H/T WrestlingInc):

"There might have been an incident in Madison Square Garden once when Ric Flair went off script that got Vince a little heated about what he had said and said, 'Dammit, from then on, I need to know what every single talent is going to be saying going out there,'"

And the rest was sufferin' succotash history...