One MIND-BLOWING Secret From Every Year Of WWE History
31. 1994 - A Commentator Exposed The Business
Not that it needed exposing, in 1994, but this was pre-Loose Cannon.
The lines had yet to be blurred. WWF fiction was very much that: everything was presented as on-the-level, and even if fans knew, they didn’t care for the reminder when tuning into their escape.
Per the September 26 Wrestling Observer Newsletter, on an overseas syndicated broadcast of WWE programming, an unidentified Belgian announcer suffered catastrophic head loss and - for reasons known only to himself - decided, on-air, to bury the show he was performing on as fake. He blew a gasket for a long old time, insisting repeatedly that wrestling is not real and that the babyfaces and heels fraternise in real-life. This was the equivalent of Michael Cole saying, at WrestleMania 40, that Jey and Jimmy Uso still love each other and that they’re only pretending (the poor superkicks might have already given it away, in fairness).
So what happened, exactly?
Little is known about this long-forgotten incident outside of that quick Dave Meltzer write-up - but perhaps a football commentator was demoted or something and revolted at the punishment live on air.