25 Most OUT OF POCKET WWE Attitude Era Moments
18. The Big Boss Man Kills Al Snow’s Dog, Feeds It To Him
Some say the Big Boss Man Vs. Al Snow is one of the worst wrestling stories of all-time. Those people are wrong. Yes, the Kennel From Hell match was too dull to even approach so-bad-it’s-good territory - with the amount of climbing involved, it was like 15 On A Pole matches - but everything prior to the blow-off was TV gold.
The angry guy in a comedy functions to blow up, to a wildly disproportionate degree, over some tiny slight or other. The punchline is in the whiplash. This device is used by genuine titans of comedy, like Larry David, Jerry Seinfeld, the writers of It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. Vince Russo isn’t quite on the same level, granted, but his booking of the Big Boss Man observed a similar rule.
Boss Man, prone to fury at the best of times, was particularly irked by Al Snow’s dog Pepper, who committed the cardinal sin of yapping at and biting him. Boss Man dognapped Pepper as punishment. Boss Man, though, showed contrition when recalling that, as a child, he had a dog. The dog had run away. Perhaps, all that time, Boss Man was projecting some dormant grief. He had learned the error of his ways. Nope: he killed Pepper and fed it to Al. Dog bites man, man kills dog. That’s genuinely good black comedy by wrestling standards.
The reveal was a tour de force. Al fell to his knees in a scene that might have had more gravity, had the chair not stuck to his ass. Boss Man then brained Snow on the back of the head with the serving tray.
He then failed to grasp basic biology: “I told you Pepper was going to live with you for the rest of his life - unless he goes to the poop chute or somethin’!”
In an extra-funny detail, Snow kept referring to the Boss Man under his government name ‘Ray’, as if this was all very intense and actually real.