10 Most Infamous Backstage WWE WrestleMania Moments

4. Blading Controversy (WrestleMania VIII)

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While things weren't as strict as they are today, wrestlers were under instructions not to blade around the time that WrestleMania VII went down. Ric Flair paid little attention to this edict and went against his employers' orders in his WWE Championship match with Randy Savage, bleeding buckets as they threw down on the midcard, sending Vince McMahon round the bend.

The WWE Chairman went nuts on 'The Nature Boy' when he hit the backstage area, to the extent that some accounts claim he was so upset, he almost fired Flair there and then. Nuts, particularly when considering that Bret Hart had already juiced himself while wrestling Roddy Piper earlier in the night.

What separated Hart and Flair was that 'The Hitman' worked his bosses into thinking his blood was hardway. Bret successfully disguised a stealthy blade job behind a turnbuckle spot. This saved him the hairdryer treatment from Vince, who was as conned as anybody else, with Hart not revealing the ruse until the release of his book years later, further solidifying him as one of the sport's biggest in-ring geniuses.

If only Flair had employed similar tactics...

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