7. You Could Be Non-Consensually Pierced
Most people only remember Darren Drozdov as the man who could puke on demand, or due to the tragic in-ring injury that caused his paralysis. The fact that he worked as a new member of the legendary Legion Of Doom tends to be forgotten, as does his teaming with the man currently known as Jason Albert in NXT: previously known as Sweet T, Tensai, Lord Tensai, Giant Bernard (in a Japanese digression) and before then, A-Train, Albert, and originally Prince Albert. The heavily tattooed and pierced Prince Albert was introduced as alternative lifestyle shill Droz personal body piercer, bringing a case of instruments and needles to the ring with him that would invariably be used and abused as a foreign object. The idea was that the pair of them would tease actually performing a body piercing on their fallen opponent after winning a match. Why this was supposed to be a terrible, terrible thing to inflict upon people when the two men were advocating it as a lifestyle choice is something that the WWF never made entirely clear, but the crowd were wholly behind the idea. Now, our memories may be failing us in our old age, but sadly we dont recall Droz or Albert ever managing to successfully pierce any of their luckless foes the closest we recall them getting was attempting to give Val Venis a pierced nose after a match on RAW in 1999. After the accident that ended Drozdovs career, Albert would fall in with the Big Bossman, the man who had ripped out Droz own nose piercing shortly before Albert arrived in the company. Theres irony for you.
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