12. Heidenreich Rapes(?) Michael Cole - SmackDown 2004
Oh goodness, this. On a 2004 episode of SmackDown, Heidenreich suddenly kidnapped Michael Cole from the announcers' table (or the announce table in WWE parlance) and dragged him to an undisclosed location in the bowels of the arena. Well, the cameraman followed them, but he didn't intervene. Maybe Heidenreich threatened him. Anyway, when we visit them for the first time, Heidenreich is behind Cole, who he's pinned up against a wall. While talking about desires and giving Cole what he wants, he repeatedly thrusts against him, and ostensibly, the inference is that he's raping him. The show cuts away, and when it comes back, Heidenreich throttles Cole while speechifying more poetry, before shoving him out of the mysterious room and into a hallway. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEK80zqUXWQ While he noted that the word "rape" was never used when the angle was pitched to him, Heidenreich claimed that Vince McMahon came up with it in a dream one night. I'm sure he did.
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.
