10 Shocking Wrestling Plans You Won't Believe ACTUALLY Happened

10. Fondle Me Elmo

Ever keen to be just behind the curve (and in this case probably behind the camera), Vince McMahon used a 1996 internet gold-rush to hawk his own wares in the early days of the experimental Shotgun Saturday Night. After a sex tape featuring Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee effectively acted as a gateway for those canny with a computer, adolescent wrestling fans took to AOL looking for images of Sunny in positions almost as compromising.

WWE obliged, producing more and more bikini shoots with the 'Golden Haired Fox' until she became a record-smashing search entry by herself. Trying and failing to maintain what he thought was ECW's extreme aesthetic on his Saturday show, McMahon teased 'Sunny's Sex Tape' in an effort to furnish the show with added edge and viewers alike.

Promising the industry's hottest female star at her most intimate, they instead delivered a Lynchian nightmare of her cavorting with a weirdly sexualised version of the 'Tickle-Me-Elmo' toy. The reveal decades later that Todd Pettengill was in the costume only made the scene grimmer to revisit.