10 WWE Ideas EVEN Vince McMahon Thought Were Too Sleazy

8. Mickie James Simulates Oral

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In 2004, WWE presented the Diva Search: a contest held to determine the company's next purveyor of sex appeal in which, incredibly, its participants were allowed free rein with which to verbally slaughter one another on national television.

The infamous 'Diss The Diva' segment saw the women "diss" one another's penchant for burping up semen. This was presumably OK, since the Search continued for some number of years afterwards. What wasn't OK was the conduct of Mickie James at WrestleMania 22 in 2006.

In her match with Trish Stratus, James, playing a crazed, spurned obsessive stalker, grabbed Stratus by the crotch and simulated cunnilingus. This, at least, was in character. Vince - the man who pushed a son-in-law who told you to suck him off for 25 consecutive years - blew a gasket. The spot was removed from the home video broadcast of the show and its Network streams by the man who in parallel to this tickled the oesophagus of Candice Michelle.

Vince, a paradox, has a very strange personality foible in that he believes, selectively and with hypocrisy, that he is a man of sophistication.

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