17 Most Brutal Hazing Horror Stories In Wrestling

9. Bob Holly Threatens Todd Grisham With MURDER

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As if to perfectly reflect the era he endured, former WWE announcer Todd Grisham is remembered mostly for his listless, "It's Christian" call when 'Captain Charisma' returned to the company in 2009. It's a call that alienated many fans at the time, but during a revealing chat with Chris Van Vliet in 2025, Grisham went into detail on even grimmer memories working for the market leader. 

Vince McMahon forced through that lousy Christian call, but he didn't do much to stop some of the horrendous hazing that went on at Grisham's expense from lots of the other wrestlers on his roster. Shortly after he jumped aboard, Todd revealed that, as a hazing exercise, Brooklyn Brawler went through the locker room letting his colleagues know that the new guy thought the business was sham. He went as far as to use the dreaded "fake" word.

That was a rib enough, but Bubba Ray Dudley was more than happy to take it as fact (or take the hazing to a dark new low) and berated him in front of everybody, screaming how he "shouldn't have ben hired" and "didn't belong" in a wrestling locker room. Predictably, Bob Holly was none-too-thrilled either, insanely threatening Grisham by screaming "You think this is fake? I’ll kill you in the parking lot right now" in his face. The tension built, despite Grisham - again under duress from Dudley - apologising to the offended wrestlers one by one, and to the extent where Batista was going to hit him with a Batista bomb after a show until the end result was a wedgie that left his anal cleft "bleeding" and "raw as hell".

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