10 Hidden Times WWE Stars Broke Character

6. Wrestlers Stop Wrestling

Triple H kid crying
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The first ever pandemic SmackDown was a grim experience that was "best" remembered for Triple H abusing Michael Cole in a desperate attempt to get you to look the other way from a global catastrophe. Where Performance Centre shows had once been novelty, this was a nightmare.

Tasked with opening up this historic and tragic show, Bayley, Sasha Banks, Nikki Cross and Alexa Bliss put forth a a fine tag match under the pressure of atmosphere unlike any in wrestling history. With no fans and no real point, they wrapped up their actual bumping when the show went to commercial. 

Though SmackDown was still airing live, the reality setting in on all four moved them to simply wait until they were back on air. What they didn't consider was any feed somewhere out there that got to see everything. One did, and it revealed a shot of the two teams just taking a break from the action and waiting for things to resume. Why, logically, would they do anything else?

What once might have been a big scandal wasn't remotely even considered a mistake.

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