10 Insane Things WWE Will Never Do Again
6. Choppy Choppy
Great matches, alluring characters, big theatre spectacle: viewers tune into professional wrestling for a multitude reasons. Televised castration, however, isn’t one of them.
Anyone with more than a basic knowledge of the artform knows of the time Kaientai tried to “choppy-choppy” Val Venis’ “pee-pee.” The angle came about in 1998, when the amorous midcarder ran afoul of the Japanese stable by having an affair with their leader’s wife. Kaientai sought revenge in the ring, but they failed, and decided to enact a far more grotesque form of retribution
The group tied Val up backstage, then stripped him bare. Yamaguchi-San, sword-in-hand, yelped his now-infamous line in the most stereotypical Japanese accent imaginable, then brought the blade down (seemingly upon Venis’ appendage), though the scene cut without clarification of what had happened.
Venis later explained that he’d only suffered “a little shrinkage” following the incident, and recruited John Wayne Bobbitt (a man literally dismembered by his wife in 1993) to help him get through it. Fortunately, the feud ended just two weeks later, and WWE didn’t force their audience to sit through anything near as torturous as the choppy-choppying.