8 Wrestlers Who Tried To Look Cool (...& Immediately ATE Sh*t)

This entry might scan as mean-spirited in not in the tone of this list; the idea, generally, is to point and laugh at the misplaced hubris and the stern and immediate response from the wrestling gods. It is included in order to put over the wrestler who ate sh*t. 

Lita and Trish Stratus must have felt enormous pressure heading into December 6, 2004. This was the night that, for the first time ever, a women’s match was slated to headline WWE Raw. This was a big deal. There was no #GiveDivasAChance hashtag brewing. This was before Twitter was launched, and even further behind the timeline of fan sentiment. Lita and Trish were walking out in front of the remnants of the manospheric Attitude Era audience. They had earned their respect, which is why they were in the main event, but the fans weren’t demanding it. Trish and Lita had to prove that women belonged, which was some task, since in the eyes of the audience, they didn’t. Women were still promoted as eye candy simultaneously, and would still be promoted as sex objects for years afterwards. 

Early in the match, Lita sent a charging Trish over the top rope with a back body drop. Lita, still selling, nodded and pointed at Trish with a somewhat smug look on her face, intimating that she had Trish right where she wanted her. Lita then over-shot her suicide dive, landing neck-first on the ground, her throat acting as a pivot for the rest of her body to turn over in the wrong direction entirely. It was gross. She looked like a scorpion. 

To her immense credit, she got on with it, even improvising a spot in which Trish suspended her from her neck by the top turnbuckle. Lita ate sh*t - but rubbed it in the faces of misogynists everywhere minutes later.