17 Most Brutal Hazing Horror Stories In Wrestling

17. Dick Measuring Contest

Poor 'The Dicks'.

What about their WWE run wasn't a brutal hazing horror story? Upon getting the supposed dream WWE call-up in 2005, developmental prospects Tank Toland and Chad Wicks were rebranded as James and Chad Dick, and repurposed as Chippendale-type figures with airhead personas to match their dumb monikers. Regulars on the weekend shows without making much of a dent on the main roster, it was fairly clear from the off that they were going to end up disposable rather than distinguished. On top of all of that and to make matters absolutely as worse as they could possibly be halfway through the 2000s, they had to endure all this as part of the SmackDown locker room.

On any given night, and if you were any given wrestler who got on the wrong side of the self-appointed blue brand police (and plenty of them feature elsewhere in this list), you were potentially doomed. Dismissal came the way of The Dicks via hazing that spiralled rapidly out of control.

Per Toland's own recollection, things booted off when, at a house show in Mexico, somebody backstage wired in a crying baby noise every time Chad tagged in. Later at the hotel, Chad had been stirred up so much about it that he wanted to fight his own partner to prove his toughness to a crew that weren't going to respect him either way. It escalated to the point of the pair physically fighting, with the roster taking bets on it, and Tank ultimately having to batter and bloody his partner effectively in self-defence.

It was a grisly way to go for them, but go they went - the pair were promptly released in the aftermath.