10 Wrestling Moments You Felt Totally Guilty For Laughing At
7. Michael Cole Decimates Kaitlyn And Maxine
Michael Cole was insufferable between 2010 and 2011 - as in, more insufferable than he is now, when every single week he pulls the string behind his back and blurts out a "Here comes The Big Dog!" and a "It's Boss Time!", under strict orders from Vince McMahon, as if he hasn't already been programmed to say those words every single week. Still, the Manchurian Commentator is preferable to the Insufferable Snark Commentator that heeled all over the entire product with a conviction not even approached by Stephanie McMahon.
He was actually genuinely funny when he sh*t all over NXT Season 3 and, specifically, the infamous match "wrestled" by Kaitlyn and Maxine.
The guilt here is driven by pure schadenfreude. The action was abysmal, but neither woman was anywhere close to even a respectable tryout dark match. They were drowning, helplessly - but the death throes were morbidly funny. This was the cruel toxicity inherent to the organisation writ large. Those poor, poor women. What's low-key hilarious is that Cole could barely bring himself to bring his trademark spite; he simply groaned his way through the ordeal in disbelief before taking a phone call from his mother.
Kaitlyn attempted an inverted atomic drop. Maxine sold for a spear. They did the spot again, because they weren't trained to improvise. The embarrassment was palpable, and yet Cole without one shred of empathy lifelessly referred to it as "riveting" in his sarcastic deadpan.
When Kaitlyn finally took the fall, after the referee had to check three times to determine what was going on in that mass of inexperienced flesh, she could only roll her eyes, knowing this would haunt her forever.