17 Most Brutal Hazing Horror Stories In Wrestling

13. Michael Cola

In something that might explain stories of how brusk he was with many others in the years that followed, Michael Cole took his lumps during his earliest days within WWE, and before he even entered the vortex of the worst people to be around in the entire company, he was getting hazed by some of the best.

Per his own recollection as well as that of others at the time, he was sprayed with Coca Cola below the waist by Owen Hart and Davey Boy Smith - enough to cover his trousers and everything else below the lens, but obviously not anything the cameras could see. The newcomer then had to conduct the entire interview no-selling what had happened, and presumably work the rest of the evening keeping the upper lip stiff despite the suit being soaked, lest he "sell" for the wrestlers that didn't see him as anything more than an inferior Todd Pettengill.

There were other initiations to survive for Cole - it got a lot worse before it got better, though at least the next damage was easier to wash off...