7 Worst Times Wrestlers Went Off-Script On Live TV
Anything can happen when we're live, pal. What could possibly go wrong?
Live television always comes with an element of danger to it. Sure, everyone knows exactly what is supposed to go down ahead of being on air, but what happens when a wrestler takes matters into their own hands? Total chaos is what happens, and these moments when wrestlers decide to go rogue all had disastrous consequences to varying degrees.
Sometimes, an innocent jibe can be enough to send a shockwave through an entire locker room. In darker instances, wrestlers can take their physicality to unacceptable levels, upsetting the audience as well as everyone in the backstage area. Whatever the reasons behind their decision to take matters into their own hands, the consequences of going off-script are a roll of the dice that can have many calamitous outcomes.
The debris of disaster left behind by these incidents has ranged from ruining a wrestler's scheduled push to being terminated and having to restart their entire career, all because they misjudged the moment entirely.
Some of wrestling's most memorable moments have come from spontaneously flipping the script. This list is all about moments that will be remembered for all the wrong reasons.
7. Charlotte Flair & Tiffany Stratton
It takes something to blow an entire WrestleMania feud in one interaction. Still, Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton managed to accomplish that exact feat in one toe-curlingly awkward exchange on the April 4th, 2025 episode of SmackDown. Tensions had been boiling in previous weeks, with Charlotte being particularly bullish in her promos, but nothing could prepare fans for the brutal interaction the pair shared live on air.
Chicago was in a typically rowdy mood, and the relentless and intense booing of Charlotte had her visibly rattled. When Stratton poured fuel on that fire by picking at Charlotte crying over her divorce on the Sherri podcast, declaring that she was "0-3" in marriages, things went from awkward to nuclear.
Charlotte retaliated by taking things way too far, suggesting that Stratton's then boyfriend, Ludwig Kaiser, had been in her DMs. The whole thing was a chaotic mess, with Stratton going for the jugular and Flair losing it with her responses. Blurring the lines between fiction and reality in the name of scoring points is a regular occurrence in wrestling, but this interaction did nothing for either superstar. Stratton went on to beat Flair at WrestleMania 42, with Charlotte requiring a complete character makeover to blow over this uncomfortable feud.