8 Wrestlers Who Went Nuts Overseas

3. Going South In The Far East

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Freshly released from WWE in 2001 and 2002 respectively, Joanie 'Chyna' Laurer and Sean 'X-Pac' Waltman's spiralling drug and alcohol addictions led them both into unchartered territory in 2004 with the international release of self-made pornographic film '1 Night In China'.

Smoothly titled to parody an infamously distributed Paris Hilton sex-tape at the time, the pair committed to the bit beyond the pun. The customer-focussed coitus was framed around a guided tour of the world's most populous country, though thankfully the majority of the 1.404 billion in China weren't exposed to the nether regions of the former WWE stars.

As with much of his darkest days, a now-clean Waltman has shared regret about the experience, but it wasn't completely without merit for the pair. Shifting 100,000 units for Red Light District Entertainment, the duo split a reasonable profit from the sales whilst the whole thing effectively acted as a backdoor pilot for Laurer's second life in adult entertainment.

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