12 BRUTAL Wrestling Ribs That Made It To Live TV

11. The Kanyon Incident

Kanyon was born too early. What’s so depressing about that is how precise it is, and the extent to which it applies.

He was a pioneering movez guy (complimentary) before the 2000s indie scene was locked in a competition with itself to come up with the coolest stuff. His ‘Positively Kanyon’ gimmick was an irreverent comedy bit years before Being The Elite. He was bi-polar before the mental health taboo was broken within wrestling.

Kanyon was also homosexual decades before, in one of the most lovely wrestling moments ever, a crowd affectionately chanted “He is gay!” at Anthony Bowens when he spurned the advances of Harley Cameron.

The late Kanyon was in the business when the business was abhorrent. In an infamous, disturbing segment, his sexuality was ribbed. In a wretched angle, he was used by the Big Show and Paul Heyman to taunt the Undertaker as a “peace offering”, but was revealed instead to be a big menacing gay!

‘Taker, so disgusted that he wore the exact same expression as that time Goldberg almost shoot killed him, made it very clear that he didn’t want any part of this. He used - and this was notable - the back seat to deliver a grotesque steel chair shot. The sound of it, Jesus Christ.

While the Undertaker maintains that he didn’t unleash the hardest chair shot he ever struck - the hardest chair shot anybody has ever struck - because Kanyon was gay, Kanyon wrote in his autobiography that he was directed to “sing like a [F slur]”.

The clear idea, the heat, was for Kanyon to be creepy, his predatory advances unwanted, in a particularly grim stereotype.