10 Wrestling Storylines Totally Different To How You Remember
4. The Katie Vick Controversy
How you remember it:
Triple H shagged a corpse.
WWE ran a necrophilia angle, and it was the worst thing they ever did.
What it was actually like:
Triple H, dressed up as Kane, pretended to have sex with a mannequin mocked up as a corpse. WWE ran a mock necrophilia angle, and while it was hardly in good taste, it wasn't the worst thing they ever did. It wasn't even the worst thing they did that involved Kane, who in storyline canon is an actual rapist who turned face months later. Why is "the Katie Vick angle", which only really involved Triple H thinking he's funny, considered the most offensive thing ever broadcast on WWE television? Other than Triple H thinking he's funny?
For years, WWE portrayed women as manipulative liars who "cried abuse" to derail a man's career and faked miscarriages. They mocked serious surgeries performed on beloved commentators. They had top babyface stars refer to Arab-Americans as "sand people" and generally treated being gay as a disgusting practise to be ridiculed.
The mock necrophilia and indeed the sacrilege is nothing compared to the real worst things WWE has done as fiction, and they've done significantly worse than that as a business.