10 INSANE WWE International Incidents
CHOCOLATE T*TTIES!
WWE’s upcoming international tour should pass by without incident.
At best, the banter hounds among us may feast on some sort of disciplinary kernel. A long, brutal schedule offers a shortcut only to the end of your f*cking tether. The last time the WWE roster embarked on a European tour, Big Cass, seemingly enabled by holiday mode, found himself at the centre of scandal and literally opened the door for his WWE exit by lashing out in a bad-tempered spree.
Former tag partner Enzo Amore had less choice in the matter; reports swirled in 2017 that the former wrestler-cum-abysmal rapper was hauled off the bus by Roman Reigns. Enzo’s attempts at spin were as unimpressive as his attempts to spit bars. “I literally got my own locker room,” he bragged to TMZ, which was a spirited but patently b*llocks euphemism for “a dark, lonely corner of any given arena”.
It’s a different time, a different mentality now; the roster is a well-behaved, video game-playing bunch operating under far stricter, PR-conscious rules.
We might hear the odd second-hand tale of Sin Cara throwing a can at somebody’s face, or something, but the days of exposed breasts, Nazi impersonations and un-bleeped expletives are a distant—but no less vivid—memory…
10. Mr. McMahon Drops An F Bomb
At Rebellion ’99, a UK-exclusive pay-per-view, Triple H defended his WWF Championship against The Rock in the headlining Steel Cage attraction. The bars were black, but the babyface Mr. McMahon character turned the airwaves blue, at least. As retribution for throwing a garbage can at daughter Stephanie earlier in the night, McMahon locked an interfering British Bulldog in the cage, threw up the double digits, and screamed “F*CK YOU!” in his face, perhaps still cross at Davey’s performance at In Your House: Great White North.
Bulldog incidentally altered the course of WWE history on the night; Stephanie suffered a case of amnesia, and forgot all her loving memories of fiancee Test. If only he hadn’t. No NXT Vs. No Reign of Terror is like wrestling’s Sophie’s Choice, but in the alternate timeline at least, stars may have actually flourished on the main roster.
This flagrant antagonism of British broadcasting standards caught up to McMahon a few months later; Channel 4, horrified by the blood and breast-splattered Royal Rumble 2000, yanked WWF programming from its line-up three hours after it first appeared.
But before 2000, there was 1998…