10 Fascinating WWE SummerSlam 2012 Facts
4. Fred Durst Was Thrown Out For Flipping The Bird
At one time, Durst was part of "WWE's favorite band" (which has to be read in Tony Chimel's voice), but the banner days of Limp Bizkit's hyper-aggressive rap-rock had come and gone. Their 2011 album Gold Cobra didn't reach glorious Chocolate Starfish heights, and WWE had moved on to other contemporary music for their pay-per-views (which isn't to say that any of it was an improvement over "Crack Addict").
The gradual divide between WWE and their "favorite band" became clear at SummerSlam, during a celebrity roll-call before the main event. Durst was spotlighted, and he kicked it Attitude Era-style by telling the cameraman that he was number one. This didn't sit well with the overlords of now-sanitized WWE.
Reportedly, Kevin Dunn freaked out when Durst's middle finger was shown, and the Bizkit frontman was subsequently escorted out of the Staples Center. He would later say in a 2015 interview that the band were still wrestling fans, but not 'WWE fans', and called the company's image-consciousness "f--king p-ssified."