10 Biggest WWE Attitude Era Controversies

6. Road Warrior Hawk Appears To Commit Suicide

The act of taking one's own life is something which doesn't really have a place in the realm of professional wrestling, but WWF/WWE have visited the thought of suicide on more than one occasion. Not only did long-time referee Tim White appear to kill himself on WWE television in 2005, but 7 years earlier, the idea of Road Warrior Hawk ending it all was also explored. Standing atop the Titantron video wall, Hawk was set to take the plunge, something which acted as a main story thread for one episode of Monday Night Raw. There's no denying that it all came across as pretty unnecessary, and not exactly the kind of thing that people want to think about when tuning into a wrestling broadcast. Hawk had been going through some very real personal demons with drugs and alcohol, something which was written into his on-screen character. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9geNPA9zQPA Struggling with his chemical addictions, Hawk was booked to slur his speech on commentary and generally act as though he didn't want to be alive any longer. Eventually, it seemed the young upstart Droz would push Hawk off the top of the tron, but the insinuation from the announcers was that the man had jumped to his death.