10 Wrestling Moments Everyone Misunderstood As Kids
1. Why Isn't Prince Albert A Prince?
As adolescent wrestling fans, we were accustomed to royalty by 1999.
We'd seen those fit to wear the crown (Jerry Lawler), those who suited it like John Cena suits suits (King Mabel), legends who didn't really pull it off either but are so f*cking hard we hope they never read that (Haku, Harley Race), and, of course, the 'Macho King', Randy Savage, whose sceptre-bashing of the Ultimate Warrior at the '91 Royal Rumble was proper love-to-hate heel stuff...
...so why didn't a 'Prince' wear a crown?
Matt 'Prince Albert' Bloom wasn't much of a Prince at all. He didn't emerge from a throne, nor was he carried to the ring, nor was he clad in gold and purple. He just had intricately terrible facial hair, a hairy back, and wore black PVC gear. He was the personal tattooist of Droz. That's about all we were told about the man.
Of course, a few years later, we came to realise that Prince Albert was in face a reference to a very painful piercing procedure in which metal is shoved down the urethra of the penis and is ripped back through the bell-end which, dear me, has to be the most wince-inducing thing Vince Russo ever came up with.
That or the Reverse Battle Royal.