17 Most Brutal Hazing Horror Stories In Wrestling
1. Amy Weber Takes Rated-RKO Abuse
The short-lived WWE career of Amy Weber followed a familiar mid-2000s pattern. She entered the Diva Search in the good faith hope of landing a job, got the job, was quickly shunted into roles she was ill-prepared for, was resented by fans and colleagues alike, and ultimately left the company and the business as a result.
It was a different time. A different and much worse time.
Weber explained as much during a video she uploaded to her own YouTube channel, noting how she was already nursing an injury from training with fellow Diva Search crossover talent Joy Giovanni when Randy Orton and Edge decided to haze her for simply trying to improve in her new trade. As she put it;
"I landed on my tailbone... [doctors] thought I might have cracked it. Nothing huge. I could still walk, but it was very painful. The trainer told me to go into the men's locker room and grab some ibuprofen and some ice. I was laying across three [airplane] seats... Randy Orton decided to come up behind my chair and he slammed into it like a linebacker so hard that I landed on the floor of the airplane, and then he said to me, 'You're gonna learn, b*tch.'"
This needless abusive act was bad enough, but it got worse when Edge chipped in too. She added;
"I turned around and went back to sleep. I was awoken by someone pouring a drink in my face. So immediately, I popped up, I looked up, and I saw Edge, yes, you, Edge, with a partially drank drink in his hand. There was a little bit left and it was the same color that was basically all over me." After Edge denied any wrongdoing, Weber said she challenged him to fight her, but he simply continued to deny it. Having only been on-screen for a few months and having already experienced problems with Orton and others, she elected to leave WWE and the industry outright rather than continue to endure such awful treatment.