10 Disturbing WWE SmackDown Moments You Totally Don't Remember
6. Coffin Dodger
Yet more death! Perhaps due to the apparent immortality of Vince McMahon's monolithic empire, WWE hasn't ever had a problem burying taste and decency six feet under in the name of a gag and/or pay-per-view main event. How SmackDown itself lives on in 2017 after so many of these storylines surely proves that.
For a company running a f*cking mile from the countless ex-performer deaths caused by a lifetime of toil in one of the hardest industries around, WWE had little issue scripting it into their storylines.
Admittedly, in directing The Big Show to leap atop a coffin getting dragged at speed out of a cemetery by a maniacal Big Boss Man driving a Blue Brothers squad car, the organisation crafted one of the most memorably camp visuals in company history.
In his (leather) Sunday best on a sunny November 1999 day, Show mourned peacefully until his arch nemesis appeared on the scene yet again chatting sh*t about his dearly departed Father. Like all good funerals, a massive fight followed, leading to the aforementioned atrocity as a go-home build to a Survivor Series clash left to flail on the undercard so the seven-footer could win the WWE Title in the main event.
That he was getting up to this hijinks just days earlier exemplifies how shortsighted that decision was.