11 Off-Air WWE Moments You Weren't Supposed To See

by David Bixenspan

1. Triple H And The Rock Rehearse Their Iron Man Match


Here's something you don't see every day. At first, you can't really tell what's going on, as the camera is zoomed out far in an empty arena, but then the uploader who put the video together makes it perfectly clear: The Rock and Triple H are rehearsing their 60 minute Iron Man Match hours before Judgment Day 2000 in Louisville, Kentucky, and the video of their practice session is shown side by side with the same sequence in the actual match.

Pre-WWE, this was rare in wrestling. Some wrestlers, like Randy Savage, meticulously laid out their matches move for move, but didn't actually rehearse them. A number of famous WWE matches have been heavily rehearsed, probably more than we'll ever know. It became common with The Undertaker's WrestleMania matches while he's getting into ring shape, and really if you can think of a WWE-style self-consciously epic match (that's not inherently a bad thing, by the way), it was probably rehearsed to some degree.

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Formerly the site manager of Cageside Seats and the WWE Team Leader at Bleacher Report, David Bixenspan has been writing professionally about WWE, UFC, and other pop culture since 2009. He's currently WhatCulture's U.S. Editor and also serves as the lead writer of Figure Four Weekly and a monthly contributor to Fighting Spirit Magazine.