10 Times You Forgot Pro Wrestlers Broke Kayfabe On The Air

3. DX Replays The Curtain Call

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If you're a WWE fan who somehow still hasn't seen or heard of the infamous "Curtain Call" incident at Madison Square Garden...for God's sake, go Google it now.

Much has been made of Vince McMahon's, ahem, "displeasure" toward those involved in the MSG Incident and the subsequent wrath that fell upon Triple H, who was the only participant not leaving for WCW or wearing the WWE Championship. Hunter's momentum came to a screeching halt and, as he put it, "they did everything the could to screw with me". This included dropping all of his main event spots, making him work with jobbers, and cutting his storylines to practically nothing.

That's a mighty hard way to learn about respecting wrestling's oldest tradition.

Fast forward a little more than a year later and the guidelines regarding kayfabe had changed drastically thanks to, ironically, Scott Hall and Kevin Nash's constant line-blurring with the nWo.

D-Generation X, always trying to one-up their former Kliq-mates, decided to superkick that fourth wall right to the ground by showing the infamous Curtain Call footage during an episode of Raw and mocking anyone who took the incident too seriously. Because apparently Triple H still hadn't learned his lesson.

Meanwhile McMahon, sitting ringside at the announcer's table, looked genuinely p**sed about his two clown princes shattering kayfabe into bits before his very eyes. It seemed that wound was still a little too fresh.

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