8 Funniest Wrestling Fan Heckles

8. New York - So Cold As Ice They Named It Twice

WWE used to move at a pace beyond the absolutely glacial one it trundles along at in 2022.

In 1993, if a wrestler had been around for as long as Dolph Ziggler has today, he'd have been fighting Bob Backlund for the WWE Championship in 1979. The same Bob Backlund who was reintroduced during this time period as if he'd just been discovered under a Leicestershire car park by Time Team with little brushes and trowels.

Vince McMahon hadn't called his newest mostly-Hogan free roster the "New Generation" yet, but that's precisely where his company and the industry at large appeared to be trending, and the very un-WWE Monday Night Raw was further reflection of a shapeshifting time.

Removed from the bright lights and glossy overcoat of the old Superstars/Challenge mega-tapings, Raw's edgier feel came thanks to an intimate Manhattan Centre setting. Particularly during the weeks it was live. All that's to say 1980s staple Brutus Beefcake wasn't exactly received as an iconic figure when he poured his heart out during a brief return to screens ahead of a WrestleMania IX run alongside old buddy Hulk Hogan.

He spoke on injuries, the ones accrued on the road and near-fatal ones caused by a 1990 parasailing accident. He talked about professional panic, the prospect of never earning a living again cuttin' and struttin' and being with the fans. And he spoke of personal strife, with the breakdown of his marriage compounding on and off-field problems made that little bit better by an improbable and impending return.

Gut-wrenching. Or it was, until one New Yorker stuck a knife direct into the gaping wound with a loud "KILL YOURSELF!" request. The City That Never Sleeps was wide awake for this one.