11 Terrible Fourth Wall Breaking Wrestling Moments

8. Sending The Spirit Squad Back To Where They Came From

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Ah Triple H and Shawn Michaels. They just thought they were so damn clever!

They gave five rookies a chance to work with them in the ring, but they didn’t get over. It surely couldn’t have been the fault of the elder statesmen. Here were two guys in their 40s doing an act that was popular years earlier, but had completely lost all of its edge, and their opponents were five cheerleaders. How could this feud not have main-evented WrestleMania?

Well, besides how much the gimmicks stunk, the Squad had to job to the two aging veterans in 5-on-2 matches on multiple occasions. To further hammer home this burial, at the end of the feud, Hunter and Michaels put everyone in a gigantic box and suffocated them. Or, wait...no, they shipped them all back to Ohio Valley Wrestling. That seemed random.

The joke is, Ohio Valley Wrestling is where WWE talent used to be trained, like NXT. They were being sent back for more "seasoning" as Jim Ross would put it. That wise cracking Hunter also made sure to point out the delivery guy had an OPS badge on instead of a UPS one, so they didn’t run into any sort of trademark issue. To top it off, as Hunter slammed the container and said “this isn’t worth a crap” you could tell he sure as hell meant it.

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