10 Most Cringeworthy WWE Backstage Segments

7. The Boss Feels And Heals

After Vince McMahon's God complex at long last became a key feature of Monday Night Raw thanks to his feud with born again christian Shawn Michaels in 2006, his team of terrified writers were at last given an easier shift by playing to his ludicrous ego in grim scenes in of sexual engagement with his favourite females.

The most notorious of the bunch featured the typically torrid sight of The Chairman trying to toy his tongue so far down Candice Michelle's throat that he probably could have tasted what she'd had for breakfast if she wasn't under such pressure to be an "Athletic 10". That stomach-churner was matched only by the dire dialogue apparently pitched in a panic by job-scared scribe Jensen Karp.

Having healed her cold by laying hands on her chest the week prior, McMahon needed another ailment to give him the excuse to cavort with Candice. Karp decided to go big lest he go home.

As Karp put it, "everyone was looking at me, so I replied with "labiagytis?". It was the first word I got on television." There's a first (and thankfully last) time for everything. A Triple H interruption thankfully brought things to an abrupt end.

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