10 Seedy WWE Stories Vince McMahon Wants You To Forget
9. The Post-Badd Blood Monday Night Raw
The hideousness of Vince McMahon's interview with Melanie Pillman is hard to avoid when remembering the hugely controversial edition of Monday Night Raw that followed October 1997's Badd Blood: In Your House.
Taking place a night removed from Brian Pillman's passing, McMahon's cynical grilling of the 'Loose Cannon's widow was designed to take some potential heat off his organisation for the extraneous factors that contributed to Pillman's heart attack. Positioned in the show to grab ratings, it was one of the more disgusting moments in the history of the broadcast, but not the only regrettable back-and-forth on the show.
Just minutes removed from the ten bell salute to Pillman, D-Generation X bullied Michael Cole on television in a rank old representation of what all of the industry used to look like, before Shawn Michaels engaged in a spectacular rant that sounded like he was willing to fight an entire locker room he knew hated him, all to tease out Bret Hart who himself took on the quartet in the ring with a slew of homophobic slurs.
It's all very early-Attitude Era, but unlike just about every other clip from the time, is not one the company willfully lets the world see without a bit of a search.