10 Times WWE SmackDown Went Too Far
5. The Grand (Assault Of) Kanyon
This one needs to be seen to be believed, but even then you might have to cartoonishly rub your eyes to confirm that it’s absolutely positively not a dream.
Because it’s not. There’s no lovin’ here. The colours are not red, gold and green. Well, apart from Undertaker’s garish t-shirt, but ‘The Deadman’ wasn’t setting up a title win with this, and he’d proven years earlier that he couldn’t make money with Kanyon. Perhaps that’s why he seemed content to knock his head clean off his shoulders with a steel chair.
How they got there was bad enough. Paul Heyman - Big Show’s agent and causeless sh*t-stirrer - was giving Undertaker gifts as a way to apologise for his giant client’s assault several months earlier.
He’d pied off a singing telegram and Brother Love in weeks prior, but having cycled through those lame gags, they were ready to do a cruel one. Dressed as Boy George and trying to charm him with a few bars of Karma Chameleon, Kanyon was gonna pay, was gonna pay, because this bad a*s was always kickin’ a*sholes a*s.
You could ask the question why they chose Kanyon for the role, but why when you already know the answer?