10 Times WWE Used Major News Events In Questionable Taste

10. John Wayne Bobbitt

John Wayne Bobbitt is famous for having his penis cut off by his then wife, Lorena. There's no easy way to put that so let's just get it over with. The unpleasantness transpired in 1993 and Bobbitt became a pop culture phenomenon.

The WWE got round to cashing in on Bobbit in 1998. It had just aired a storyline in which Val Venis, whose gimmick was pornographic actor, had feuded with Japanese faction Kaientai and their manager, Mr Yamaguchi. In response to kayfabe accusations that Venis had slept with his wife, Yamaguchi-san kayfabe chopped off Val Venis' appendage with the words "I choppy choppy your pee pee" in the most Attitude Era segment ever aired.

It was later revealed that the Little Valbowski had been saved by fear-shrinkage, and the advice of his 'friend', John Wayne Bobbitt, who actually appeared on Raw. The WWE seemed not to care that the Bobbitt incident was surrounded by issues of domestic abuse and sexual violence, and was evidently convinced that severed penises were hilarious.