10 Best WWE Tales From Wrestlers' Court

9. Edge & Christian Get Slapped Down

It's a little known fact that, even today, if you're not at the top of the card you're not going to get paid a whole hell of a lot as a WWE wrestler after tax and travelling expenses. When you're midcard, you're always looking for that angle, or that feud - or even just a match - that might push you further up the greasy pole. At the very least, you might make a decent payday on a pay-per-view that could keep the wolf from the door.

When Edge and Christian were a tag team in 2000, the writer who was in charge of putting together their angles and promos was Brian Gerwitz, who happened to have a hobby: he collected classic action figures from science fiction. In order to keep their names at the top of his to-do-list, the pair of fake brothers would casually buy Gerwitz collectables here and there as gifts.

Not only was this a slight breach of good manners to try to get the writing team to put them over, but apparently it was specifically forbidden for wrestling talent to buy presents for anyone in the office; it was even specified in their contracts. Edge and Christian were hauled into wrestlers' court and hauled over the coals. The Undertaker's verdict, after some extremely harsh words that had the Canadians quaking in their boots, was that they'd need to buy booze for the veterans to apologise properly for their flagrant breach of etiquette: Jack Daniels for 'Taker, cases of beer for Bradshaw and Ron Simmons, and protein powder for Bob Holly (who wasn't much of a drinker).