8 Wrestlers Who Tried To Look Cool (...& Immediately ATE Sh*t)
5. The Shockmaster Is Aptly Named
This is the immortal, quintessential “Check this sh*t out motherf*cker” moment in wrestling history.
As hard as it might be to believe, the Shockmaster was trying to look cool when he attempted to burst through the wall to announce his WCW arrival. This wasn’t some plucky underdog that WCW had intended to introduce to the audience; the guy was meant to be a badass hoss introduced and endorsed by Sting as an equaliser to the combined might of Sid Vicious, Big Van Vader and Harlem Heat in a WarGames match.
Now, WCW’s interpretation of cool was vastly different to something that was actually cool, but the intent was there. WCW did not know that the most infamous botch in wrestling history was about to unfold, because what WCW didn’t know could fill three rings, a Doomsday cage, and a junkyard.
Unbeknownst to WCW, which had apparently rehearsed the entrance, David Crockett had later inserted a piece of lumber underneath the set to support it. David might as well have bent over behind poor Fred Ottman while one of the heels pushed him over. It had the exact same effect. Ottman, his sight already obscured by the glittery stormtrooper helmet placed over his head, was meant to burst through the wall with a double ax handle motion. He did, but he also tripped over the lumber level with his foot and, in the infamous words of an onlooking Davey Boy Smith, “fell flat on his fooking arse”.
It didn’t even matter that Ottman’s subsequent promo was out of sync with Ole Anderson’s live overdub. He could have outdone Austin 3:16 and still ate sh*t.