8 Wrestlers Who Went Nuts Overseas

7. From Bad Booking To The Bad Books

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Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn were deep in the midst of a sort-of WWE push in November 2017 after 'The Underdog From The Underground' shockingly rejoined his arch-nemesis at the conclusion of his brutal Hell In A Cell battle with Shane McMahon.

The duo were SmackDown Live! insurgents, intent on breaking the blue brand from within having already toppled its leader. Ruled out of the blockbuster inter-brand Survivor Series main event as a result, Zayn and Owens allegedly veered a little too close to the storylines with some unruly in-ring behaviour on a UK television taping.

Just hours before AJ Styles liberated the WWE Championship from Jinder Mahal on a Manchester SmackDown Live!, the pair escaped an attack from The New Day when they were supposed to get in there and take their lumps. It was such a bizarre act of self-preservation from the ordinarily professional pair that many believe it was to feed into the wider work about their malcontent at the time, but their blanket absence from every remaining house show revealed the reality.

The duo were back at the Survivor Series itself, but only to perform a run-in that didn't actually go that well. They rabble-roused, but a recovered Shane McMahon was able to punch them back to the showers as on-screen penance for their act.

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