6. Brian Pillman On Kevin Sullivan
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9fn3q_brian-pillman-calls-kevin-sullivan_news The brilliant Brian Pillman, beginning to bring in his Loose Cannon persona, would genuinely shake the world of professional wrestling for a brief moment at WCWs Superbrawl in 1996. Running in to immediately tackle opponent Kevin Sullivan, who was also head booker at WCW at the time, the two would take part in a short but heated brawl before the bell could even be rung, a brawl which looked entirely convincing to the live audience and to the viewers at home even to the announcers. Pillman would then grab a microphone and deliver a single line: I respect you booker man before abruptly leaving the ring. The bout, booked to be a strap match, hadnt gotten underway the strap hadnt even been tied on yet. Sullivan looked astonished and was genuinely reeling, while Tony Schiavone on announcing duties sounded much the same. Pillman had broken kayfabe and let everybody in the audience and at home know that wrestler Sullivan was, backstage, the guy in charge of calling the shots. The real story was that WCW president Eric Bischoff and Pillman had concocted the incident between them, and hadnt told Sullivan or Schiavone what was about to happen, something for which WCW was notorious at the time. Pillman and Bischoff had planned to have Pillman fired for real after this incident, following which he would take his Loose Cannon character to ECW, raise all manner of hell and publicity in a promotion with few rules, and return to WCW with the aura and fanbase of a main-eventer. Pillman would do just that except he double-crossed Bischoff and signed with WWF instead.
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