7 WWE Moments That Are Hilarious When You Know The Truth
Triple H ribbing Vince McMahon on air! Michael Cole's damp WWE debut!
Damp crotches, missing mascots, errant F-bombs and more.
All of those things are here, and they'd perhaps be entertaining enough without much context. After all, that's a three-pronged attack all in itself, but you need to know the backstories behind such WWE madness. Why did these moments happen, and who was involved? Those are the delicious questions that need answering.
There are some real classics here. For example, 'Mean' Gene Okerlund's infamous outburst at SummerSlam 1989 features, as does an historic ECW invasion led by then-revolutionary Paul Heyman back in 1997. Both those occasions created timeless drama, for varying reasons, but both are also hilarious when the curtain gets peeled right back and one learns the ins and outs about each respective 'day of' from people who were actually there.
Prepare for explanations that'll only add to your enjoyment of these moments - brace for Triple H being an absolute sh*t disturber when Vince McMahon is trying to breeze his way through some backstage skits, marvel at Ken Shamrock refusing to play pro wrestler and... don't call phone numbers you see on wrestling telly.
Just don't do it...
7. Ken Shamrock Chases Chris Jericho For Real
Otherwise, Ken Shamrock might chase you around.
That's exactly what happened to Chris Jericho back in 1999. The WWE newcomer was trying to settle into company life when they programmed him with angry Ken, and angry Ken didn't f*ck around. He certainly didn't like the 'bullsh*t chops' Jericho dished out during some of their early exchanges.
According to the then-'Y2J', Ken folded him up like a deckchair on a house show for chopping him. Later, during a rather creative steel cage segment on SmackDown, Shamrock was booked to chase Jericho up the ramp and out of the arena after nonsensically bending the steel bars and freeing him.
Jericho wrote in one of his books that he stopped sprinting after making it back through the curtain. When he looked round, he realised one thing with horror: Shamrock was still running, and he was making a beeline straight for him.
Apparently, those chops came with multiple receipts. Jericho had to try and calm Ken down, and explain that he wouldn't throw any more knife edges out there.