10 Times WWE Totally TROLLED The Universe

10. “Razor” & “Diesel” Are Back!

Jim Ross must've felt like crying when Vince McMahon told him his grumpy heel character would be used to facilitate "comebacks" for two of the WWF's most famous characters in late-1996. Note the wording there - JR wasn't bringing back the originals, but cosplay knockoffs who'd be playing Razor Ramon and Diesel respectively.

Yeah, this was never gonna end well.

The federation hyped that Razor and Diesel were set to return for weeks before Rick Bognar and Glenn "That's Gotta Be Kane" Jacobs marched out pretending to be Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. It was a pathetic swerve, one brutally defended by Bruce Prichard via his podcast decades later.

McMahon trolled his own audience here, then made them change the channel to watch the real deal be infinitely cooler as the nWo on WCW TV. There may never be a worse attempt to replicate success in pro wrestling than this.

It'd be like some indy worker coming out on Raw next week as Seth Rollins.