10 WWE Fates Worse Than Death

3. Taking Rikishi’s Stinkiest Stinkface

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This is foul.

Workers suffering it couldn't head towards the white light, because it'd been shaded brown by Rikishi's giant butt being shoved right in their faces. His 'Stinkface' has become one of the most simultaneously cherished and disgusting spots in wrestling lore for a reason. Back then, it was over like rover as one of the big man's go to spots during matches.

Here's where things get awful. Rikishi has admitted that he had different sets of gear he’d wear depending on who he was working with. If he liked you, then he’d wear the clean thong/tights. If he didn’t, then you’d get stuff that had been sitting in his bag unwashed for weeks/months. In an even more repulsive move, Kish would also reportedly go for a huge dump before matches if he hated you, and wouldn’t clean his butt properly.

That’s just flat out gross. Here’s hoping it isn’t true and he/others were just at the windup when talking about it. Honestly, it's frankly unacceptable to think that somebody was allowed to rub their un-wiped anus on somebody else's face as thousands of happy wrestling fans cheered in unison and millions more laughed back home. That'd be a bad day for anybody, backstage annoyance or not.

It isn't crystal clear exactly who suffered the consequences of rubbing folks behind the curtain the wrong way, and Rikishi delivered a whole host of 'Stinkfaces' throughout his peak run. Hell, the move was so popular that this writer had a poster of him giving Val Venis one on his bedroom wall.

No, yours truly isn't proud of admitting that!

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