10 Wrestlers With The Worst Motivations

4. Kane Hates Coffee

The Attitude Era is romanticised to preposterous proportions. That boom period is viewed through the rosiest of rose-tinted glasses as a time of unprecedented creativity, of so much sh*t sticking to the wall that the thing was essentially covered in faeces. The reality is that it was just as creatively bankrupt as wrestling is now, and there are so many awful feuds that show that.

Few come close to Chris Jericho and Kane in 2000, feuding over a backstage mishap involving a cup of coffee. Jericho was waxing lyrical about the latest Fozzy CD (yes, Fozzy, yes, compact discs) when he accidentally turned and bumped into the Big Red Machine himself, Kane. Jericho’s coffee splashed over the current Mayor of Knox County, and everyone was off to the races.

At a push, the reason for feuding can be vaguely accepted. Kane’s character has a history of unsavoury memories when it comes to heat, after all. But this was a new low, an example of straw-clutching that was particularly pathetic. If anything, Kane walked into Jericho and was responsible for the coffee spillage. That it led to a series of increasingly violent matches beggars belief to this day.