10 Most Offensive WWE Moments Ever
8. Tim White's Lunchtime Suicides
Another case of WWE comedy grossly missing the mark, the weekly website suicide attempt of former referee Tim White amazingly started life a serious segment.
In the run-up to The Undertaker's Hell in a Cell match with Randy Orton at 2005's Armageddon pay-per-view, Smackdown correspondent Josh Matthews caught up with despondent alcoholic White, who had apparently been forced out of the industry by a shoulder injury sustained refereeing a prior Cell clash.
With the business still rife with addiction and depression-related death at the time, the company were skating on thin ice, especially just a month on from the real-life passing of Eddie Guerrero.
WWE persisted regardless, appearing to have White blow his own head off with a shotgun off camera to conclude the skit.
Only, he missed.
Shooting himself in the foot, White apparently had a lucky escape, but that wasn't how he saw it. In the weeks that followed, he consumed rat poison, hung himself, bathed with a toaster, slashed his wrists, suffocated himself, drowned in a fish tank, ate infected beef, strangled himself with a telephone cord, gassed himself in a car, throw himself into the blades of a huge electronic fan, set himself up to be shot by a hitman, and all whilst Josh Matthews panicked then ran for help.
The payoff to nearly four months of this was White shooting a drunk Matthews from point blank range for daring to foil his suicide attempts all that time.