10 Most Shocking Angles In Wrestling History

3. "I'd like to talk to Tom" - Continental Wrestling Federation (1988)

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9XZ-eEW8Fo The Continental Wrestling Federation was a regional promotion based in Tennessee in the late 1980s. It was the breeding ground for great wrestlers from the south east of the United States, as well as the creative minds of Eddie Gilbert and Paul Heyman, who cut their teeth booking the CWF. Many hallmarks of ECW€™s ground-breaking booking can be seen in the CWF. Especially this shocking yet little known angle. Tom Prichard (who later found fame with The Heavenly Bodies and Body Donnas in the WWF) was embroiled in a feud with €œDirty White Boy€ Tony Anthony and his valet, Lady Mystic. Anthony had lost some of his hair after a match the previous week, which he blamed Mystic for. The following week, she interrupted announcer Gordon Solie, sporting horrendous bruising around her face. Solie was visibly shaken and she said that she€™d €œlike to talk to Tom€. However, Prichard refused to come out. Mystic continued to plead tearfully for Prichard to come out as Solie was a mix of sympathy and confusion, trying to run a TV show while this scenario was going on around him. After several minutes, Solie left his desk to try to get Prichard himself. He was successful. Lady Mystic talked to him, telling him that she needed help, turning him around so that his back was turned, and he was then jumped by Anthony as the crowd screamed. It had all been a set up and the bruise was (very convincing) make up. Anthony then got some rope and tied Prichard€™s hands behind his back. He then got some more rope and hanged Prichard around the ringpost before a group of babyfaces ran in to save him. This angle was actually so shocking and graphic that it got the CWF into trouble with their TV carriers. In a changing climate where territories were being gobbled up by WWF and WCW, the promotion folded the following year. Anthony himself remained on the southern independent scene, reprising this angle in Jim Cornette€™s Smoky Mountain Wrestling, before having a brief run in the WWF as forgettable midcarder, TL Hopper.