One Moment WWE Wants You To Forget From Every Year (1985 to 2026)

25. 2002 - Triple H Wins A High Speed Race To The Bottom

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If Stone Cold Steve Austin's WrestleMania X-Seven heel turn expedited WWE's commercial decline, 2002's philosophical shift beyond the toilet bowl days of the Attitude Era discovered uncomfortable new depths.

Is Katie Vick the most disgusting storyline WWE has ever concocted? That this can realistically even be a question is very, very bad, but surely it's number one with a grim bullet. Death, implied sexual assault and necrophilia, re-enacted sexual assault and necrophilia, all for an end result of an underserving nepo-wrestler unifying the Intercontinental and World Heavyweight Championship in a misguided attempt to make him the undisputed overlord of Monday Night Raw.

To recap, if you can cope with it - 'The Game' somehow found out that Kane hadn't been kept under Paul Bearer's control all his life after all, but had in fact actually gone to parties with his teenage pals. Kane was tired from the latest rager driving a drunk Vick home, couldn't use the gearstick and caused a crash that killed her. Hunter then revealed that the record (?) showed traces of semen in her body.

Just in case his cerebral assassination hadn't worked, Triple H dressed up as his rival and filmed his own take on the corpse-ulation, humping a mannequin in a funeral home before throwing bolognaise at the screen and exclaiming that he'd screwed its brains out. There was a lot of brainlessness here without him needing to do that. 

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