10 Most Offensive WWE Moments Ever

8. Tim White's Lunchtime Suicides

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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.

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