10 Wrestling Matches Booked Out Of Spite

10. The 2005 Royal Rumble

As spitefully funny as it might be remembering the sight of Vince McMahon no-selling a torn quad with his a*se planted on the canvas like a child, this is not the 2005 Royal Rumble's meanest moment.

Not least because it wasn't planned - real spite involves a certain element of pre-meditation, and that was scarily evident when Daniel Puder entered the titular battle royal to take an on-screen "hazing" for some supposed crimes the year prior.

The Tough Enough winner entered the match third, right as competitors #1 & #2 Eddie Guerrero and Chris Benoit were gleefully beating the sh*t out of each other. Naturally, they paused that conflict to sadistically smash the sh*t out of the newbie, as did entrant #4 Hardcore Holly as a supposedly random drawing exposed itself as anything but.

Puder had infamously caught Kurt Angle out during another borderline-abusive Tough Enough segment the prior summer, and the locker room heavies clearly enjoyed making him pay for this apparent act of disrespect.

The beating was too on the nose for its own good, and the sort of thing that thankfully wouldn't ever happen again.