10 Infamous Backstage Wrestling Brawls

2. Brock Lesnar vs Curt Hennig

Screen Shot 2014 10 24 At 10 51 09 "The Plane Ride From Hell" is a term used to describe a 2002 flight from the U.K. to the U.S. that transported the roster of WWE's Raw brand. Free-flowing alcohol lead to a number of incidents (and much discipline afterwards), but the scariest confrontation was one involving Brock Lesnar and Curt Hennig. Over the course of the flight, a drunken Hennig insisted on taunting the rookie Lesnar, claiming that Brock couldn't take him down in an amateur-style contest. Paul Heyman told Brock that he needed to stand up to Hennig to protect his reputation, so Lesnar did... and easily took Hennig down. The two continued to scuffle, though it wasn't as much malicious as it was mischievous (Lesnar and Hennig were actually close friends). Still, it was a potentially-unsafe scene, so they had to be broken up. Triple H tried to get between the two, and apparently at one point, all three 250 pound men slammed against the aircraft door. Luckily for all involved, it didn't budge. Hennig was fired shortly thereafter.
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