8 Times Disrespected Wrestlers Went Nuts On Reporters

7. Babi Slymm Goes Nuts On A Filmmaker

Babi Slymm might sound adorable, but if this footage is anything to go by, then he is anything but.

Michael Moody is a filmmaker and was, at the time, helming a documentary called 101 Reasons Not To Be A Pro Wrestler, a collection of shoot interviews from wrestlers including Rikishi, Diamond Dallas Page, Chyna and, most importantly, Babi Slymm.

Slymm was angered about featuring in a documentary that was being designed to cast the wrestling industry in a bad light, and confronted the director outside an indy show. Moody took out his camera and started to film, resulting in the footage found above, when Slymm appears to punch Moody in the head and chase him through a parking lot.

Alas, the violence turns out to be as predetermined as all wrasslin', the confrontationorchestratedbeforehand to generate buzz for the movie, at which it succeeded. Moody understood that there was a lot of potential publicity to be squeezed out of the image of an unhinged wrestler attacking a civilian.

As did a certain ex-SNL comedian...

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