It's no secret that the WWE subjects their roster to cruel and unusual punishment for one reason or another. Adam Blampied looks back and breaks down the 10 worst punishments the WWE has inflicted on its wrestlers.
0:00 - Introduction
1:16 - #10
2:09 - #9
3:00 - #8
3:57 - #7
5:08 - #6
6:06 - #5
7:12 - #4
8:18 - #3
9:14 - #2
10:15 - #1
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0:00 - Introduction
1:16 - #10
2:09 - #9
3:00 - #8
3:57 - #7
5:08 - #6
6:06 - #5
7:12 - #4
8:18 - #3
9:14 - #2
10:15 - #1
#WWE #WWETop10
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00:00One of the more somber tales from pro wrestling recently was Jimmy Uso getting a DUI for a third
00:04time and no, I don't have a joke for this bit, here's hoping Jimmy gets all the help he needs.
00:08However, this also created a somewhat morbid fascination in how WWE would react on the
00:13following Smackdown considering a. Jimmy was an integral part of the show's biggest storyline and
00:18b. WWE have a history of subjecting their roster to cruel and unusual punishments for infractions.
00:24Lana took to Talk is Jericho recently to reveal how she was taken off TV for months when someone
00:28leaked an engagement picture of her and Rusev to TMZ and while that's incredibly stupid because
00:32wrestling isn't real, honestly she might have gotten off lucky. Because the WWE history books
00:37are unfortunately stuffed with cases of stars messing up and getting their pats on the bottom
00:41in front of millions and millions of people and then you remember that Lana wasn't lucky because
00:44The Rock called her a whore on Raw for ages. It's like Judge Judy but with fewer eye rolls and more
00:49people having entire Samoan butts pushed in their faces for failing to comply. I'm Adam
00:54hailing from parts of unknown and here are 10 times wrestlers were punished by WWE on air. What
00:58do you think is WWE's biggest overreaction? Let us know in the comments, I'll reply to the most
01:02upvoted comment and also subscribe or else Oli and Luke will punish me on air by... I haven't
01:10prepared a gag for this bit... tickling my balls. Number 10. Take one of these and call me in the
01:19morning. We've touched on this in a recent list of money in the bank cash-ins but oh man it's a
01:24heartbreaker. With the rise of the internet and the transparency that up-to-the-minute news has
01:28given WWE's decision making it's become increasingly rare to see people receive their
01:31bollocking in a public forum. I mean again sorry Lana but like I say it's rarer. However the biggest
01:36and never do that again that Big Dub has dished out in the last 10 years was against Baron Corbin
01:41who misbehaved so WWE took his toy away. His toy being the money in the bank briefcase. Backstage
01:47Corbin had publicly disagreed and argued with a doctor downplaying the consequences of concussions
01:51in the NFL and by chewing him out in front of the boys Bazaar Corbs have seemed to be acting
01:55disrespectively and the ensuing heat saw WWE stripping him of his newly won case in the most
02:00humiliating way possible. Losing via roll up to Jinder Mahal in about six seconds and that's what
02:06happens when you stand up for your friends brains I guess. Number nine. Hot lesbian punitive action.
02:12Let's head back in time to the mid 2000s when WWE was really weird and gross and weird. On the
02:16October 18th episode of Raw in 2004 Christy Hemi fresh off of winning the WWE Diva Search was
02:22feuding with Carmella. Not that Carmella. This Carmella. Remember this Carmella? The two women
02:27will be wrestling at Taboo Tuesday in an audience voted match. Carmella being the dastardly heel was
02:32pushing to do something even tangentially sports related whereas Christy the face said she wouldn't
02:37be happy unless she got to have full sex in the ring or something. To prove how committed she was
02:40Christy then gave Lillian Garcia just the world's most awkward kiss live on air. Lillian Garcia
02:46looked like she hated that. It's because she did as the whole thing was a rib on her to punish her
02:49for what WWE perceived to have been partying too hard on the latest European tour. It's like your
02:54mum telling you to smoke the entire pack of cigarettes only it's kissing someone you don't
02:57want to on TV and that's really weird. Number eight. The butt of the joke. Continuing on with
03:03WWE's HR department and its weird relationship with its female employees 2000 was the year that
03:08Lita became the third part of the Triforce that was Team X-Treme. Matt the Triforce of wisdom.
03:13Jeff the Triforce of plummeting at the f***ing ground like a cartoon coyote and Lita the Triforce
03:18of cool trousers. It wasn't until early 2001 however that Matt and Lita's real life relationship
03:23was made part of WWE continuity. On the February 19th episode of Raw 2001 Matt saved Lita during
03:28her match with Dean Malenko and afterwards the two kissed to a huge pop. WWE wanted Lita and
03:33Matt to repeat the kiss on Smackdown a few days later but apparently Lita refused, makes sense,
03:38law of diminishing returns and all that. However WWE operates by a different,
03:42crueler law than that with Lita being punished for her disobedience by being stink faced by
03:46Rikishi on that Smackdown instead and good lord it was an extra long, extra horrible stink face
03:52at that. Poor Lita it's a wonder Rikishi doesn't start choking on her f***ing nose. Weird company.
03:57Number seven. No hugs allowed. Wrestling isn't real. This is fine. It doesn't matter
04:03Jim Cornette. It doesn't matter. Sasha and Bayley can stomp each other into protons and then cry
04:08and hug afterwards. It doesn't matter. But apparently in the 90s oh it mattered super
04:12hard. Wrestlers would be fined if babyfaces shared cars with heels, shared hotels with heels even,
04:18broke character for even a second. It must have been bloody exhausting. In May 1996 Diesel and
04:23Razor Ramon were leaving WWE for WCW where they'd go on to have, checks notes, moderate success.
04:29On their last night together in Madison Square Garden the two men hugged it out with fellow
04:33clickmates Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a way that would have made Dr Shelby proud. However
04:37while Vince had originally signed off on this display of convivial appreciation because it was
04:41an untelevised house show, a member of the crowd managed to capture it on video and started
04:46spreading it around until it gathered infamy as a relatively rare shattering of kayfabe known as
04:51the curtain call. Furious WWE couldn't punish Big D's and Razor, Shawn was the champ, so Triple H
04:57carried the can alone being booked to lose to Mark Mirror on countless house shows and of course
05:01losing out on being crowned king of the ring losing a first round match to Jake Roberts on
05:05a late May episode of Raw. Number six and they call it moppy love. Tell me if this has ever
05:11happened to you. You're at work, your co-worker winds you up and you take it a little too far,
05:15get into a fight and are called in front of HR. They tell you this kind of thing is unprofessional,
05:19they accept your apology and then they hand you a piece of janitorial equipment and say cool now
05:23tell everyone in the office that this is your girlfriend. That's happened to you right because
05:27it sure has happened to Perry Satton. After shoot beating the piss out of a jobber who'd
05:31accidentally dropped Perry on his head on an episode of WWE Metal in May 2001, which to be
05:36clear is unprofessional and shouldn't be condoned, Satton was punished in the oddest way possible by
05:41giving the world's most embarrassing gimmick. Within a week of the incident on Metal he was
05:45brutalized by the APA on Raw given severe brain damage which led him to among other things dress
05:50up in a bra and panties before finally falling in love with a mop that he once tried to use
05:54as a weapon. He called the mop moppy and theirs was a brief summer fling. They did everything
05:58together before she was murdered by Raven. That's odd but hey Perry gave it his all.
06:05Can't say that he didn't. Number five, Royal humbled. Two weeks ago we released a list about
06:09hazing culture in WWE and how it was bad. This is an example of hazing culture in WWE and it
06:15is bad. Daniel Puda won the 2004 Tough Enough competition. I guess bad things just happen to
06:20Tough Enough winners at the Royal Rumble. Watch your head Maven. In a now infamous unplanned tale,
06:25on the November 4th episode of Smackdown that year, Kurt Angle challenged the Tough
06:29Enough competitors to fight him for reels. Daniel Puda, a man with a five head and real
06:33life MMA training, fought him for reels, putting Angle in a shoot kimura lock which could have
06:38caused Kurt serious damage. As payback for what was seen to be a gross breach of wrestling etiquette,
06:43although don't do unplanned wrestling spots with MMA fighters WWE I guess, Daniel Puda was entered
06:48into the 2005 Royal Rumble in a spot specifically designed to surround him with some of WWE's most
06:54hazing happy veterans, Eddie Guerrero, Chris Benoit and Hardcore Holly, who's literally only
06:58in the match for the Daniel Puda spot. He gets eliminated straight after. These three lads
07:03proceed to leather the kid with chops and it gets real tough to watch. A rare case of wrestlers
07:08caught giving the green light to go public by the bookers and it's all sorts of gross.
07:12Number four, WWE Weight Watchers Entertainment. Vince McMahon has a muscle fetish and I refuse
07:17to say allegedly I will stand by that statement in court. He likes marbled beef and if wrestlers
07:21don't conform to his myopic standards of chisel then he covers them up like a teenager hurriedly
07:26stuffing his porn collection under his bed. It exists even to this day with Keith Lee being told
07:29to wear a shirt despite being history's sexiest man. Sometimes WWE creative have taken it even
07:34further actually punishing stars for perceived poor care of their bodies. Mickie James was
07:39famously subjected to the supremely horrid Piggy James storyline because she was seen as overweight
07:44despite looking like this. What's wrong with you? But it goes back even further than that,
07:48even to Vince's early years as Big Boss. In the mid-80s, Adrian Adonis began to put on weight
07:53and his punishment was stripped of his badass biker gimmick and was instead repackaged as
07:57adorable Adrian Adonis, a large effeminate man who used gay panic and terrible makeup blending
08:02as mind games. It's a tale with a really sad end as well. After being cut from WWE shortly
08:06after Mania 3, Adonis went to Japan and over the next year lost 100 pounds gearing up for a return
08:12to the big dub. Before he could make that return, however, he died in a car crash in 1988, aged only
08:1734. 3. RVD WAS GOING TO BE A DOUBLE CHAMP, BUT THEN HE GOT HIGH
08:22Health-wise, weed isn't as bad for you as most legal drugs, but it sure is deadly to your push.
08:26In 2013, shortly before a World Championship match at Mania 29 that he was tipped to win,
08:30Jack Swagger was pulled over with pot in his car, then he lost at Mania and slipped down the card.
08:34A more significant career derailment, however, happened to Ronald Van Donald after one of the
08:39infamous and ill-timed arrests in WWE talent history. Going into July 1st, 2006, hot off the
08:45one-night stand pay-per-view, RVD was WWE and ECW champion, proverbially riding high. But then,
08:51in fine Afro-man tradition, Van Don was busted by the cops for literally riding high. After being
08:56pulled over for speeding in a car with Sabu, cops searched the vehicle and found various illegal
09:00drugs, including 18g of marijuana. RVD was suspended for 30 days after going on a brief
09:05punishment tour of Raw and ECW, where he wrestled back-to-back matches for the WWE and ECW
09:10championships and was pinned by Edge and Extreme Big Show, respectively.
09:142. It Spells Goonie
09:16Very few people extort Vince McMahon for money and don't suffer some sort of terrible consequence.
09:21Step right up, J-E-Double-F-J-A-Double-R-E-Double-T, who famously managed to
09:26bilk Big Vince for hundreds of thousands of dollars by being Intercontinental Champion,
09:30letting his contract expire, then refusing to drop the belt at No Mercy 1999 before he
09:34jumped to WCW unless Vince got out the checkbook. First of all, good con, Danny Ocean would be
09:39proud. Second, he's got no problems as long as WCW never goes out of business. Oh dear.
09:44On March 26th, 2001, which was the blockbuster final episode of WCW Nitro after being bought
09:50by WWE, Vince held a special simulcast episode of Raw, watching both shows from the Monday Night
09:56Wars side-by-side. He opened the show by watching footage of Jeff Jarrett saying that after tonight,
10:00he'd be spelling his name capital G-Double-O-Double-N-Double-E. And I don't care what
10:05you say Vince, that spells Goonie. 18 months after he crossed the boss, Jarrett was fired
10:10live on TV, which just goes to show that revenge is a dish best served raw.
10:15And number one, the Screwjobs. Because never forget that despite the Montreal Screwjob being
10:20one of the most significant moments in all of wrestling, the axis point on which the Monday
10:23Night Wars shifted, it was still a rerun. Vince has presided over not one, but two major Screwjobs
10:29as the chairman of the WWE, serving otherwise loyal talent a jagged slice of retribution for
10:34not doing backstage business by his book. Bret Hart refused to drop the belt to Shawn in Canada
10:38at the 97 Survivor Series, so Vince rang the bell on him, stripped him of the title,
10:42and sent him on his way with all the very best for his future endeavors. It is a very,
10:46very well-known story. Slightly less well-known, however, but equally callous, was the screwing
10:50of Wendy Richter. Richter was in her second reign as WWF Women's Champion after beating
10:55Leilani Kai at the first ever WrestleMania, when she got into a dispute with Vince. It's since been
11:00claimed by WWE that Richter was refusing to sign a new contract. Richter claims, however,
11:04she was still under contract, but she wanted to renegotiate it for a better per-match payout
11:09and royalties from her work on the short-lived Hulk Hogan's Rock N Wrestling cartoon. Vince
11:13thought that was asking too much, and set a plan in motion to remove the title from Richter.
11:17On November 25th, 1985, at a filmed event at Madison Square Garden, Richter battled The Spider,
11:22aka Fabulous Moolah in a mask. Moolah caught Wendy in a small package, Richter kicked out,
11:27but much to the confusion of Monsoon and Ventura and pretty much everyone, the ref counted the three
11:32and awarded the belt to Moolah before Wendy unmasked her, trying to keep the match going.
11:36The whole thing fell apart in an awkward mess, with Moolah grabbing the belt and leaving under
11:40guard protection, leaving Wendy alone in the ring, looking furiously down the camera,
11:45right into Vince's soul.
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