12 BRUTAL Wrestling Ribs That Made It To Live TV

by Michael Sidgwick

1. Enjoy Your Tripp, Bradshaw?

Tripp Bradshaw
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Remember when you were a teenager?

The rose-tinted view is great, but the actual experience wasn’t. If you were a boy, you had to carefully navigate various social landmines. You felt like you had to protect your tentative grasp of masculinity with everything you had.

You weren’t allowed to do anything. You were not allowed to go through puberty. Heaven forbid your voice squeaked when talking in the classroom; if that happened, your friends, very loudly, would question the location of your testicles. If you had acne, sorry, loser. It was off to the Victorian freak show with you. The most self-conscious time of your life was fairly awful, because everybody else was self-conscious, and they wanted to make themselves feel better at your expense - that, or deflect attention away from themselves. If you tripped up in school, that was your personality. You were the gawky misfit with two left feet. Nobody will ever sleep with you, you geek! You had a momentary lapse in concentration that lasted all of a second! Did you enjoy your trip, you assh*ole?!

Those within WWE - a pathetic boys’ club, then, now, forever - never grew out of that phase.

At Elimination Chamber 2017, JBL made his entrance to the ring to perform commentary duties. He did a little dance, and then tripped up. This was the funniest thing Vince McMahon had ever seen, obviously. He was evidently still laughing days later because, on 205 Live, taped on the following Tuesday, WWE named an enhancement talent ‘Tripp Bradshaw’.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!