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Top 10 Worst Things in WWE History


They say when you've been in business as long as WWE, you're bound to do some vile things. But WWE has more than just a few on it's list. In fact I created a short list of things WWE have done that aren't exactly the greatest. 


1. Hawk's Substance Abuse

Road Warrior Hawk suffered through substance abuse almost constantly in life. That didn't stop WWE from making it part of an ongoing story. During the story Hawk became more unstable as time went on. He was replaced by Animal in the Road Warriors stable and the story line ended with an attempted suicide by jumping off the top of the Titantron. It may have been the first time WWE referenced a wrestler's drug addiction but it wouldn't be the last. Later Brock Lesnar would then go on to comment on Eddie Guerrero's drug usage during a promo. Later wile Jeff Hardy had taken time away from wrestling to get help for his addiction WWE allowed CM Punk to bring up his addiction publicly on air. This has caused Jeff to refuse any offers to return since the event.


2. "Dominique, I'm your papi"

Eddie Guerrero was awesome because of his ability to turn shit into gold. So when the time rolled around for he and Rey Mysterio to split their tag team, he turned shit into gold. Someone backstage had the idea that they should bring Rey's real son into the story with Eddie claiming to be his real dad. Then they would have a ladder match where custody papers would hang from the ceiling. When the feud continued they still had Rey's son around but Eddie tried to shift the story to being about jealousy and not being the real father. It was obvious that nobody was really comfortable with this and after it was over it was never spoken of again. We also never saw Rey's kids make another TV appearance. I only mention that because previously his family had always been there for his big matches.


3. Exploiting Eddie Guerrero's Death

Making an appearance for the third time on the List is Eddie Guererro. This time, he's making it from the grave. After Eddie's death he was still used in a lot of feuds. Batista and Rey Mysterio feuded over who Eddie cared about more. Vickie Guerrero and Chavo Guerrero feuded over what Eddie's legacy should be. Rey and Chavo feuded because Chavo was jealous of how much time Rey spent with Eddie. However, all the feuds came to an end when Rey Mysterio was feuding with Randy Orton. While Rey was giving a speech about how Eddie had inspired him Randy cut him off to yell out "EDDIE IS IN HELL." That was the end of using Eddie in feuds. I can't say personally, but I felt like the family may have been uncomfortable with that segment.


4. DX With Black Face and Spray Paint

So remember that time WWE had a stable called The Nation of Domination? A stable modeled after The Black Panthers and other black organizations. Remember how they were speaking out on racial issues in America at the time? Remember their feud with DX everyone wants you to forget because WWE love acting like DX were great people. I mean the group featured HHH who most people accept as at least a little racist as well as Road Dogg who had an urban rapper gimmick at one point, and Shawn Michael who refused to wrestle The Rock if it meant he would lose even once. Still never wrestled Rock.

On this day DX paraded out to the ring as stereotypical portrayals of the Nation members. Complete with fake lips, boomboxes, over sized jewelry, jherri curls and of course black face. They then did performed a cavalcade of minstrel impressions. That wasn't even the only racist thing they did to the Nation. On one occasion they spray painted the locker room with words like "nigger" and "jigaboo" along with classic phrases like "go back to where you came from." You know it was a bad idea when every member of the crowd thinks you've gone too far. This was a 90s crowd at that, and the 90s crowds were known to be ruthless, raunchy and reckless.


5. Matt Hardy, Lita and Edge's love triangle With Bonus Kane

Matt Hardy and Lita had been dating for a long time. Lita had been a manager for the Hardy Boys as they feuded with other teams liked Edge and Christian. Then it was found out that Lita had been cheating on Matt Hardy with Edge. Then rumor has it Edge somehow managed to get Matt Hardy fired by claiming he was unstable. That hasn't been proven, all we know is Matt was fired and Lita continued to date Edge. That is until one night on WWE's talk show while Lita was a guest, Matt got through the phone lines. Crying over the phone Matt finally had the chance to tell his side of the story and was able to ask Lita "why did you rip my heart out" simply for her to respond "you're an adult, get over it." This led to fans begging for Matt's return and WWE gave it to us or maybe not.

Sometimes wrestling blurs the line between reality and fiction. One night Matt Hardy would return and attack Edge. He was then carried out in handcuffs by police while screaming the dates for his independent shows. For a week it seemed real, then it happened again the next week. Then nothing, while fans asked for Matt's return and eventually a month later he was rehired. So was all of it fake, or just some of it? Who knows.

Anyway, they instantly place Matt into a feud with Edge and seeing as how they don't actually like each other wrestling matches sometimes turned into border line fights with both attempting to stiff the other. Nobody was being professional in the situation at all. On one occasion Edge "accidentally" dropped Matt's head into a ringpost causing the match to be stopped due to Matt's heavy bleeding that required stitches. But WWE kept pushing the feud until they moved Matt Hardy to SmackDown and they never wrestled again.

Meanwhile on Raw Lita was kidnapped by Kane and forced to carry his seed. Basically they tried to say he raped her in all the PG ways possible. In the end she's rescued by Edge and they feud. Here's the thing, people cheered Edge for saving her. They also cheered Kane for some reason, despite the fact that he was a rapist in this story. Yet, they boo'd Lita anyway for breaking Matt Hardy's heart claiming she deserved it. In the end they tried to change the story to Lita not being raped, but just being a cheater because that what she does. Then she was injured by another wrestler, Gene Snitsky, who caused a miscarriage. No babies were harmed in the making of this. She then sides with Kane temporarily while Edge is out injured seeking revenge for killing their baby. She was still boo'd more than anyone else in the story.

Even after this Lita received death threats from fans and people would just chant slut when she entered, causing her to call it quit and take an early retirement. Edge is literally the only person who walked away from this in a better position.


6. Booker T is a nappy headed entertainer

HHH wears an iron cross to the ring and people swear to me that it's not racism, it's just his love of heavy metal. People say he only wore black face for the comedy. But here he is making another appearance on the list for something overtly racist. During a feud with 6 time World Heavyweight Champion Booker T, HHH and Ric Flair continued to taunt Booker for weeks. But this wasn't regular taunting. In one segment Ric Flair tells Booker "back in my day I had a boy like you carry my bags." It all came to a point when HHH and Ric Flair spent almost 20 minutes cutting one of the most subtle but not really subtly racist promos that nobody in the building was behind. Claiming Booker T was just a "nappy headed entertainer," "people like you don't get to win championships here," and asking Booker to "do a little dance for me." The thing that made it worse is at Wrestlemania during the match for the title Booker hit HHH with all of his finishing moves multiple times only to lose to a single "genetically superior" pedigree. In the past stories this racist led to Ron Simmons becoming the first black World Heavyweight Champion or Ron Killings becoming the first black NWA champion. When the match was over the crowd was in shock because a story had never been so blatantly racist, and still had the minority lose in the end. When asked how he justified it he claimed "I wasn't talking about black people, I was talking about criminals." Which is a lie because Booker is hardly the first criminal in WWE and some have even been WWE champions.

That's why this one gets a spot on the list above all the other racist stories. Because it wasn't a story about overcoming racism in the end. It was a story about white power overcoming all. Additionally it would be almost a decade before Booker T would receive another World Title shot. A 5 time world champion in WCW actually had to leave WWE, start his own wrestling school, promotion and headline for TNA before he could come back to WWE and win a World Championship. People swear to me HHH isn't racist but on an episode of Raw in 2014 he fired Booker T live on air, as a joke. This wasn't in the script and Booker was legitimately pissed off about it enough to speak on it publicly.


7. The Warrior Award

Shortly before The Ultimate Warrior's death he was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame. During his speech he asked that an award be created for the people backstage that make the show work. The costume designers, the pyro people, graphic designers and others. He died less than a week later and The Warrior Award was created. The first recepient was Connor Michalek, a fan who died due to Medulloblastoma. Leading up to his death WWE made a big show of making his dreams come true. Yet it wasn't exactly all they made it to be. Justin Roberts who was a long time announcer and commentator for WWE released an article titles "Believe none of what you see, and only portions of what you hear," shortly after his release from WWE filled with images and video of Connor with Justin that were never shown in WWE's packages. It tells the story of how Justin was the first to meet Connor and would introduce him to wrestlers like Rob Van Dam, sending merchandise to his home and making skype calls with him almost every day.

It wasn't until upper management learned of Connor that they made it a priority to show how much they had done for him. Pushing others like RVD and Justin who had made the initial connection out of the image. Later Stephanie McMahon would give a speech on how charity is the new publicity and tweeting out "philanthropy is the new marketing, it's the new way brands are going to war," before deleting it after receiving backlash. When Connor was inducted into the Hall of Fame his father's first words were a thank you to Justin Roberts for making all of this possible. He hasn't actually been mentioned since then.

The second award went to the Susan G. Coleman Foundation. Once again skipping the people in the back that The Ultimate Warrior had wanted to thank for their work. If you aren't familiar with why they're a bad foundation, it's because they're a for profit organization and barely any money they raise from selling merchandise actually goes to cancer research. Meanwhile WWE went on to fire long time members of their road crew like Mark Yeaton who had worked there for over 30 years.



8. Tim White: Lunchtime Suicide

You know what goes great with lunch? Suicide. That's what WWE thought anyway. They released a series of skits titled Lunchtime Suicide where former referee Tim White would try to commit suicide each week until he was saved by Josh Matthews. Then he would try again next week. In the end Tim White ended up shooting Josh Matthews for saving his life so many time. Suicide jokes aren't necessarily bad taste automatically, but WWE and wrestling has a history of suicides as it is. Crash Holly, Chris Benoit, Kanyon, Sean O'Haire, Mike Awesome and many more.


9. Jimmy Snuka is A Killer (Allegedly)

On May 10, 1983 Nancy Argentino was rushed to the emergency room after an ambulance was called for by Jummy Snuka. She later died at the hospital. During the autopsy it was noticed that she had dozens of cuts, bruises and head injuries across her body consistent with spousal abuse, claiming that Nancy's death should be investigated as a murder. Several of the doctors and EMTs claimed that Snuka had admitted to pushing her. The family of Nancy had already begged her to leave Snuka after she suffered previous beatings at her hands. You may ask why WWE is on the list for these things. Well, they helped him change his story so that he would not be brought up on charges. He then continued to have a long career in WWE including a spot in their Hall of Fame. They helped him escape the charges by claiming that he truly was a savage despite being from New Jersey, but this was a time when wrestling was protected and presented as 100% real. This all changed in 2015 when he released his autobiography. There he changed the story yet again claiming that she had slipped. This caused the case to be reopened and Snuka was charged with manslaughter. However he was found to be incompetent to stand trial in early 2016.


10. B.A Star

WWE has anti-bullying campaign, which on the surface seems great. Maybe it does help some kids. Yet bullying is something WWE excels at on and off. In fact Bill Demoit was fired from WWE admist accusations that he bullied the new wrestlers he was supposed to be training. He went as far as to pull a gun on one and made others run drills naked. Additionally long time agitators like Michael Hayes still work for backstage on one occasion he was suspended for telling Mark Henry "I'm more of a nigger than you." He's also had well documented incidents with others such as Rosa Mendez and former WWE wrestler Bobby Lashley. At one point the WWE had The Bella Twins touring and promoting Be A Star while their on screen personas feuded with the likes of Natalya by calling her things such as little piggy and ugly.

On another occasion CM Punk was given a live microphone to say what he wanted. The only time the microphone was cut was when he decided to speak on the Be A Star program's hypocrisy. Even more so, after Darren Young came out WWE made a big deal about it publicly about how accepting they were are. Yet, they kept him off shows and tours until his tweets about the issue went viral. WWE just isn't as bully free as they claim to be.

You can hear Darrell on the CP Time and Powerbomb Jutsu podcasts. He also plays classic arcade games on The Cabinet
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