8 Controversial Moments WWE Regret Airing On Live TV

WWE's decision to run with Billy Gunn and Chuck Palumbo as a gay tag team could very easily have been forward-thinking and progressive, but this was 2002 with Vince McMahon at the creative helm, so what we got was every bit as offensive as you would presume. The tag team's apparent sexual preference was reason enough to make them heels, and the regressive nonsense didn't stop there. With all roads leading to the couple engaging in a commitment union/wedding on the season premiere of SmackDown, things would soon come to a deplorable crescendo.

The team made their way to the ring to It's Raining Men by The Weather Girls, with manager Rico overseeing the whole ceremony. After an interruption by The Godfather, who poured his skepticism of the entire affair by revealing both men's womanizing past, the punchline to this situation was that their union was all a publicity stunt, and they were not gay at all. More disappointing than just that, Billy & Chuck were openly disgusted by the very idea that they could be considered homosexual.

It was regressive and offensive on every level, considering this came at a time when gay people were being oppressed to such an extent that gay marriage was illegal in the United States.