10 Wrestlers Who Were Pissed As Soon As They Got Backstage

6. Kevin Nash Slaps Samoa Joe

Say what you like about Vince Russo (everybody else does), but if a man is able to swell his reputation sufficiently enough so that not a single shocking thing can happen on his watch, without those involved thinking he's had a hand in it, you've just got to applaud.

For a wrestler to hear something so deeply wounding and personally upsetting, and just automatically assume their boss must have had a hand in it, is quite the legacy.

In 2007, with TNA producers desperately trying to cover for the fact that an increasingly troubled Scott Hall had just no-showed a live event, the best solution they could devise was to simply hand Samoa Joe both a microphone and instruct him to "get him". Which, of course, he did, calling him a punk, slating his work ethic, and closing with a classic "kiss my ass".

This would probably have been a solid solution, had Kevin Nash - at the time the only man who really knew the full extent of Hall's problems and the personal hell he was going through - not been stood in the ring with him at the time. When he got backstage, he let loose.

"Was what you said out there, was it yours or was it f*****g Russo’s?", Nash immediately demanded to know. "He said, ‘It was mine.’ So I smacked him in the face. I said, ‘Don’t disrespect me, don’t disrespect Scott.’ Joe f*****g got up, I thought he was gonna come at me so I smacked him in the f*****g head again and he f*****g didn’t do anything.”