17 Most Brutal Hazing Horror Stories In Wrestling

11. Schoolyard Bullying

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Shane Douglas' 1995 WWE return came off the back of a thrilling repackaging in Extreme Championship Wrestling as 'The Franchise' - a man that talked such a good game that he won the one he was playing and looked set to do the same for a market leader that needed a spark. Unfortunately, he made two big mistakes en route back to the "big" (it was 1995 after all...) time; telling Vince McMahon he used to be a schoolteacher, and annoying The Kliq.

"Dean Douglas" was doomed to fail, but the former ECW Champion suffered just as much grief from his colleagues as fans when locker room litmus test Sean Waltman got backstage from their first contest and reported that his walk couldn't match his talk. It got even worse for Douglas ahead of and during his first pay-per-view match mere months after the character had debuted.

In Your House 4: Great White North was well on the way to a critical mauling before Douglas trotted out to claim the Intercontinental Championship from an injured Shawn Michaels after 'HBK' took a shoeing outside a Syracuse nightclub. The controversial departure resulted in the match being switched out for Douglas/Razor Ramon, but 'The Dean' found 'The Bad Guy' in absolutely no mood to play his part in making the match look or feel remotely competitive.

Soundtracked by the hum of a bored crowd, a rotten one-sided bout - Razor's second of the night, incidentally - ended with Douglas losing the belt he'd just been handed thanks to a screwy finish that he never even followed up on. That catastrophe was morbidly as "good" as it got for Shane - he saw the writing on the wall long while he was scraping the writing off of his chalk board, and returned to Philadelphia for a fresh(ish) start in 1996.

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