10 Wrestling Moments More Important Than You Realised
10. Christian Doesn’t Answer His Phone
That. F*cking. Chant.
"What?!" has plagued hundreds of wrestlers innocently trying to work their way through WWE's wordy scripts since 2001. It's a constant nuisance, and the kind of trolling catchphrase that makes people roll their eyes or angrily snap at live crowds to listen even 20+ years later.
Amazingly, the whole thing started because Christian wouldn't answer his phone. Steve Austin was calling his buddy, but the now-AEW star wouldn't pick up or respond to texts. So, to be a d*ck, 'Stone Cold' left a lengthy voicemail that included plenty of, "What? What? WHAT!?" banter, and both got a kick out of it.
A monster was born after that, and it netted Austin another big lump of cash on merch sales when he printed that one solitary word on a t-shirt. Who could've known that Christian...not picking up his phone would lead to millions of dollars and countless irritated workers in WWE, AEW and beyond?