10 Times WWE SmackDown Went Too Far

7. In Hell

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You know all about this one. And if you don't, it's not worth going back through the Randy Orton WWE Network archives to find it. Orton said the recently-deceased Eddie Guerrero was in hell. And presumably by that he didn't mean going back through the Randy Orton WWE Network archives.

After having 'The Legend Killer' try and kill The Undertaker with one of the cars formerly driven by (again) recently-deceased Eddie Guerrero, his strange obsession with it all reached 'Latino Heat's best friend Rey Mysterio.

Mysterio was headed to WrestleMania thanks to a 2006 Royal Rumble victory, but Orton used the particularly grim verbiage to bait the babyface into putting his shot on the line.

While the company began constructing a Wellness Policy following his passing, they clearly thought little for the staff tasked with coming up with the creative for feuds such as this one. Whomever came up with this (or greenlit it - and we all know who that was) was clearly anything but well.

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