10 Wrestlers Who F*cked Up On Their First Day

2. Public Enemy Live Up To Their Name

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Reports circulated that Public Enemy gave it the big 'un upon arriving in the WWF.

This was a no-no. If you arrived from the dreaded outside, you weren't hot sh*t. You were actual sh*t: a turd that required Titan-branded polish.

They arrived late, and per JBL, who recounted the infamous scene that followed on After The Bell with Corey Graves last year, the Undertaker greeted them with a curt "That's lunch, boys". Whether that was his way of burying their timekeeping or not, Bradshaw received it as an instruction to eat them alive. "They were so full of themselves and we didn't like them," he continued, and the first impression wasn't helped when Johnny Grunge and Rocco Rock, in self-preservation mode or full of hubris from their ECW glory days, refused to go along with the scheduled finish to their match seconds away from the bell.

When the bell sounded, a glorified assault unfolded: imposing business on a team that refused to do it, Bradshaw rained down unrestrained chair shots on Grunge; Faarooq meanwhile threw Rock to the mat with such force that Rock didn't have time to bump for it.

He landed on his elbow before, later in a match that never once felt like one, taking a chair shot even Ken Shamrock wouldn't.

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