10 Wrestling Matches That Started Riots

Love him or hate him, Bubba Ray Dudley knows how to draw heat like few others.

From watching him over the decades, you can just tell that Bubba loves being a heel. Like, it's almost cathartic for him in some way to incite a crowd to the point that they are literally baying for his blood. But while the Dudley Boyz were great villains during their time in WWE, and Bubba was a phenomenal villain as 'Bully Ray' in TNA, that's nothing compared to what the Dudleyz - and in particular Bubba - did during their time in ECW.

The Dudley Boyz were infamous for pushing the buttons of a crowd in a way that nobody at that time was doing. As in, they crossed so, so many lines. And so, so often, it was Bubba Ray doing the crossing of those lines.

One particularly infamous example of this, was at ECW's Heat Wave 1998 PPV. With Bubba and D'Von defending the ECW Tag Team Championships against Spike Dudley and Balls Mahoney, the stage was set to get some heat before the bell rang.

For the Dudleyz, that meant D'Von telling the crowd to "shut the f**k up", Bubba labelling Dayton, Ohio "a piece of sh*t city" and then laying into individual audience members with some horrendous comments that have to be heard to be believed - before then fronting up to fight the crowd. Like many a crowd, the Dayton faithful didn't take too kindly to the Dudleyz's comments.

One other similar story saw a reported 40 police officers required to stop a riot caused after Bubba punched a fan.