10 Things We Learned From The Secret Diary Of A WWE Superstar
6. No Strangling, No Cursing, No...Severed Heads?!
Receiving instructions that Daniel Bryan clearly didn't 15 years later, Shinzaki's heel instincts were tempered somewhat following a match with Bob Holly that also brought to the front various other standards that were expected in WWE in at the time.
As he put it;
"March 26, 1995 in Cleveland, Ohio against Bob Holly. I attacked my opponent by strangling his neck. After the match, my agent told me "I don't want you to do that ever again, because it's not good for children to see something like that." In the United States, certain violent acts and bad words like F*CK YOU are not allowed to be expressed on TV."
This tone was revisited later that year, with Hakushi himself questioning the value of a particularly infamous segment. He said;
"May 15, 1995 in Binghamton, New York...Today, Bret's "severed head" was put out in the ring for the first time, but perhaps it was bad to bring it out as the audience reacted poorly".