8 Wrestling Angles Which Exploited Real Life Deaths

7. Big Show Riding His Dad's Casket

The image of a seven-foot Big Show hanging on to his deceased father's casket, while the Big Boss Man towed it out of a cemetery, is a lot to take in, even for the wacky world of wrestling. It was all the wrong kinds of car crash spectacle that defined the Attitude Era.

Paul Wight's father had in fact died a few years earlier, as opposed to during the feud, but it was a very real exploitation of Big Show's undoubtedly painful loss.

It's one thing to mention a dead relative, but for Big Show, he had to re-enact, and relive, his own father's funeral for a strangely written segment used to build a dead-in-the-water feud.

Big Show would go on to beat his coffin-stealing rival very comfortably on two occasions in the following months, once for the WWF Championship, but no one really remembers anything other than the aforementioned casket ride poor Show had to endure.

It was a strange, twisted way to draw heat on Boss Man, which kind of worked to an extent, but it was so silly, painfully acted out and pointless considering the shelf life of the feud, that it just came off all wrong by the end of it.

Some of the Big Boss Man's jibes like, "unless you want to be six-foot deep like your daddy," made it really difficult not to cringe. The whole thing was a real kick in the nuts for Show, and no doubt his family.