10 Times Wrestlers Cried And Made Everybody Feel Really Awkward
8. Big Show (Survivor Series 1999)
The Big Show has spoke at length about his jagged entry into WWE's tightly wound system following a freewheeling introduction to the business via WCW in late 1995. Defeating Hulk Hogan for the World Title in his first match then proceeding to get by on size alone (despite his tremendous capabilities and unbelievably quick grasp of the basics), Paul Wight's physical condition rapidly deteriorated ahead of his 1999 signing with Vince McMahon.
Determined to prove only they knew how to get the true value out of a monster of his nature, WWE booked him with and against virtually every top star in a frenzied effort to give him the immediate rub from their roster of global megastars. Unfortunately, just about none of it worked.
Feuds and pairings with The Rock, Mankind, Steve Austin and The Undertaker had him turning face and heel at a rate that would sadly become representative of his entire career, and by November that year, he was in danger of become a joke character following a heavy-handed angle with The Big Boss Man over his dead father.
The storyline didn't appear to leave a huge footprint on the Survivor Series pay-per-view after Big Show obliterated his own team before bulldozing through Boss Man's goons, but when he was the unlikely beneficiary of Steve Austin's absence in the main event, the storyline emotion literally soaked through.
A crying drooling wreck as he dedicated his WWE Title win to his late father, he was virtually impossible to watch as his overtly moist dribbles and quibbles sent the show off the air.