5 Lurid WWE Hotel Room Angles

4. Dawn Marie: Unwelcome Sexual Predator

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Al Wilson was, notoriously, the most loathed character in WWE's oft-dubious canon - one which includes Mantaur, The Gobbledy Gooker, and Stephanie McMahon.

Al was the father of Torrie - an octogenarian with whom Dawn Marie embarked on a 2002 liaison with Dawn Marie, in her incredibly unsettling and quite illegal tactic of coercing Miss Wilson into bed. After WWE hyped the holy hell out of the footage, Marie finally ran it at Armageddon.

Wilson was shown agonising over the decision to enter the room, as Tazz on commentary screeched "I heard they went all the way!" like the token geek in a high school movie. Torrie, upon entering, folded her arms in more, red flag-raising guarded body language. When she squirmed away from Marie's kiss, she was offered champagne. It sent a dubious moral message to WWE fans everywhere - "uninterested and terrified women will have sex with you, provided you get them drunk first."

Worse than the dubious tone, and Marie's dire softcore acting job, was that the fans in attendance absolutely lapped it up - and jeered when Marie cut the footage. There's also the small matter of Wilson eventually succumbing to Marie's predatory advances. A little alcohol, evidently, goes a long way.

"It's hot! It's hot!" said Tazz of the footage. Perhaps the FBI should take a quick scan of his hard drive.

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