10 More Wrestling Segments That Accidentally Filmed Things You Weren't Meant To See
1. Paul Heyman Blows Gasket At Production Botch
At Anarchy Rulz 2000, ECW booked an angle to advance a storyline that had very much worn out its welcome.
Cyrus, played by Don Callis, was a representative of "the network," a veiled reference to TNN so thin that a certain WWE executive would love it. This storyline was Heyman's way of dealing with the restrictions placed upon his new, nationally-televised product in a way that babyfaced his promotion. Instead of refreshing a vision that had been subsumed by the WWF and was thus untenable, he continued to cast ECW as the renegade outfit. It wasn't credible. Nor was it well-advised; the ECW and TNN relationship was never strong, and this meta business felt like Heyman self-destructing, knowing that ECW was doomed.
As part of it, Cyrus was often positioned on commentary to put across "network" messaging, and to occupy the booth without Joel Gertner getting in the way of that, he tasked Heyman pastiche Lou E. Dangerously with a beat-down.
Midway through the backstage fracas, though, production accidentally cut to their own truck. Heyman screamed "What the f*ck are you doing?" to one of his staffers in fury before an awkward transition to a Justin Credible interview.
Of course, this being Heyman, it may well have been one of his "Doesn't matter if it makes no sense to work this shoot, if anything it makes us look incompetent, but work it anyway, it's the late '90s" deals.