10 Articles You Won't Believe WWE.com Once Posted!
7. The Lunchtime Suicide Series
Unbelievably WWE.com once posted ‘The Lunchtime Suicide Series’. It was a series of vignettes that were in terrible taste that WWE would never get away with today.
It all started at Armageddon 2005 when Josh Matthews interviewed referee Tim White at his bar the Friendly Tap, with White claiming the Hell In A Cell match he refereed at Judgment Day 2002 between Triple H and Chris Jericho, where he suffered a shoulder injury which genuinely retired him, ruined his life. So in the middle of a wrestling pay-per-view White proceeded to shoot himself with a shotgun. This skit was considered god-awful by fans and critics.
WWE had tried incorporating suicide into storylines before with Road Warrior Hawk and others but it obviously never worked as compelling entertainment. But they still went ahead with it for Tim White on WWE’s official website where week after week in a series of skits they called ‘The Lunchtime Suicide Series’ White would try and kill himself in more elaborate ways, including eating rat poison and trying to hang himself.
It concluded in April when White didn’t try and shoot himself for once but rather shot Matthews. Considering all the mental health issues former WWE performers were starting to openly talk about in interviews, this was a massive mistake.