10 Shocking Wrestling Plans You Won't Believe ACTUALLY Happened

7. Kennel From Hell

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Now almost a charming footnote of the Attitude Era compared to some of the bigger atrocities committed by Vince Russo during his 'crash TV pomp', the Kennel From Hell was (literally) a steaming turd in the middle of Unforgiven 1999, his final pay-per-view.

The horrific quality of the match was subversively pored over by Mick Foley and Kevin Kelly as a giant rib on Snow from Foley during one of his DVDs, but the match's in-ring collapse fades into the background of its farcically overbooked setting.

For Vince McMahon, more is always more, which highlights just how awful the Kennel From Hell had to be in order for the company to never attempt the preposterous amalgamation of two of their biggest gimmick matches ever again. An abomination, the match felt as neutered as the allegedly fierce dogs patrolling the arena floor despite the lethal metal structures.

Emerging from the darkly comical angle in which Big Boss Man abducted, murdered and cooked Al Snow's pet dog Pepper, the contest was designed for the pantomime lawman to get his canine comeuppance, but the dogs and their handlers weren't nearly intimidating enough as both wrestlers scrambled through p*ss and sh*t to escape the outer cage.

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