Top 10 WTF Moments in WWE

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These WWE moments make zero sense. For this list, we’ll be ranking the most head-scratching, confounding, or otherwise puzzling canonical moments in WWE that left our jaws on the floor.

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00:00 For this list, we'll be ranking the most head-scratching, confounding, or otherwise

00:18 puzzling canonical moments in WWE that left our jaws on the floor.

00:23 What's your most WTF memory from watching WWE?

00:27 Let us know in those comments below.

00:31 Number 10.

00:32 Warrior Voodoo.

00:33 Charles Wright saw a lot of success as the Godfather during the WWE's Attitude Era,

00:39 but the man who once worked the streets was previously saddled with a different gimmick.

00:44 Wright was Papa Shango, a voodoo practitioner whose feud with the Ultimate Warrior resulted

00:50 in his infamous promo segment.

00:56 The Warrior was in the midst of an interview with Mean Gene Oakland when a viscous black

01:01 liquid began to emanate from his head.

01:14 This wasn't all either, as Shango's voodoo curse had previously caused Warrior some serious

01:19 stomach pains, to the point where he actually vomited on camera.

01:29 Number 9.

01:30 Dad Theft.

01:31 The extremity of the Attitude Era has been well-documented by fans over the years.

01:36 As a result, the laundry list of storylines that were done in poor taste is miles long.

01:48 The feud between The Big Show and The Big Boss Man definitely falls into this category,

01:53 as it all centred around Show's kayfabe mourning of his father.

01:58 Boss Man, for some reason, took umbrage to this, and focused on making Big Show's life

02:03 an absolute hell.

02:05 The apex of the feud came during an outdoor segment – shot at a real graveyard, by the

02:10 way – with Big Show literally riding on top of a coffin as Boss Man was dragging it

02:15 away.

02:16 If we didn't watch this segment live, we honestly couldn't even believe it was real.

02:29 Number 8.

02:30 Fake Diesel and Fake Razor.

02:32 It seems incredulous, even all these years later, that the WWF actually thought they

02:36 could get away with this one.

02:43 Kevin Nash and Scott Hall had already left the company, yet the WWF was determined to

02:48 keep the Diesel and Razor Ramon gimmicks alive.

02:52 As a result, Jim Ross, playing a heel character, brought in two other wrestlers to carry on

02:57 the characters.

03:04 Glenn Jacobs, the future Kane, and Rick Bognar did their best with this misguided gimmick,

03:11 but the fans saw right through this ruse immediately, and Fake Diesel/Fake Razor soon were abandoned

03:18 in the mists of pro wrestling folklore.

03:23 Number 7.

03:24 Trump vs. Rosie.

03:28 Long before Donald Trump became the President of the United States, he was collaborating

03:33 with Vince McMahon and the WWE.

03:35 This WTF moment, however, didn't even involve the real Trump, but instead, wrestler Ace

03:41 Steel.

03:42 Steel portrayed Donald Trump on the January 8, 2007 episode of Monday Night Raw, performing

03:48 in a gimmick match against a woman playing actress and talk show host, Rosie O'Donnell.

03:54 Trump and O'Donnell were in the midst of a public feud and war of the words around

03:58 this time, so WWE decided to strike while the proverbial iron was hot.

04:04 The end results were as cringe-worthy as one might imagine, and probably shouldn't be

04:08 re-watched by anyone.

04:16 Number 6.

04:17 Edge and Lita's Live Sex Celebration.

04:20 It was a WWE moment that would live on forever, in infamy.

04:24 It was Edge and Lita's live sex celebration on the January 6, 2006 episode of Raw.

04:31 The rated-R couple were celebrating Edge's first world title win at New Year's Revolution,

04:38 and did so in a most outlandish fashion.

04:43 The segment was tortury and provocative by that era's standards, never mind placed

04:49 against the current wrestling landscape.

04:52 Lita and Edge were a couple off-screen too, at the time, and their foreplay left little

04:56 to the imagination.

04:58 Ric Flair and John Cena would eventually interrupt the segment before it went all the

05:03 way, but the shenanigans didn't stop.

05:06 Cena tore the covers off of a now-clothed Lita and gave her an F-you for her trouble.

05:21 Number 5.

05:22 The Gobbledy Gooker.

05:24 It seems almost cliche at this point to reference the Gobbledy Gooker and the WBF.

05:29 It's a WTF moment that never seems to go away, no matter how much everyone involved

05:34 might wish it would.

05:35 There was a lot of build-up to what exactly was in this giant egg that was due to hatch

05:40 at the 1990 Survivor Series.

05:43 Was it going to be a debuting new wrestler?

05:45 A returning favourite?

05:47 What was in the egg?

05:48 Well, it was a member from one of wrestling's royal families, Hector Guerrero, just dressed

05:55 in a giant turkey costume.

05:57 The WWF reportedly intended the Gooker to be a mascot for the company, but he just didn't

06:03 take with the fans, who called "foul" and quickly became a walking, clucking punchline.

06:09 Number 4.

06:10 JBL and Godzilla.

06:13 John Bradshaw Layfield was no stranger to storylines that leaned hard into the cultural

06:18 stereotypes.

06:19 This was the same superstar whose feud with Eddie Guerrero featured a segment shot at

06:24 the border, after all.

06:37 This segment was a little less mean-spirited than JBL booting migrants in the butt, but

06:42 still culturally insensitive for sure.

06:44 It revolved around an episode of WWE SmackDown that was airing from Japan.

06:49 JBL had been accidentally shot with a tranquiliser gun (don't ask) and hallucinated that a

06:55 blow-up Godzilla doll was real.

06:58 He challenged it to a match, even stripping down to his undies in order to, we presume,

07:03 fight it better.

07:04 The segment is debatably still funny, but it's definitely not for the easily offended.

07:13 Number 3.

07:14 Choppy Choppy.

07:15 Was there any Attitude Error character that best exemplifies that period than Val Venus?

07:21 The adult film actor gimmick was tailor-made to their era's boundary-pushing storytelling,

07:26 as is this infamous feud with the Kayentai stable.

07:29 Venus had seduced the wife of Kayentai's leader, Yamaguchi-san, and the stable vowed

07:35 vengeance.

07:40 It all came to a head as an episode of Raw closed out, with Venus being held hostage

07:45 by Kayentai and their newest member, Takamichinoku.

07:49 The image of Michinoku and Kayentai holding down a nude Venus, shown from behind, and

07:54 their threat were burned into the eyes and ears of WWF fans for all time.

08:02 Number 2.

08:03 Pillman's Got a Gun.

08:05 We've discussed a lot of WWE moments that have been WTF for silly, gross or strange

08:11 reasons.

08:13 This one, however, still manages to shock so many years later.

08:24 Brian Pillman's loose-canon persona blurred the lines between wrestling reality and fiction

08:30 so well that even those close to him were never exactly sure what was real.

08:35 This is what made Pillman's feud with Stone Cold Steve Austin so terrifying – its unpredictability.

08:48 It officially went beyond the pale into WTF territory, however, when a "home invasion"

08:53 segment was shot for Raw.

08:55 The image of Austin breaking into Pillman's home, and the latter brandishing a freaking

09:00 gun on the Texas rattlesnake, nearly cost WWE everything during its original airing,

09:06 and it's still wild to watch today.

09:27 Number 1.

09:28 Birthing a Hand.

09:29 We're thankful that we can send off this list for you guys with an entry that's substantially

09:35 less dark, but no less WTF.

09:38 Mae Young was a certified wrestling legend who could go with the best of them, regardless

09:43 of gender.

09:49 She was also totally game for comedy angles too, such as the storyline that saw her in

09:55 a relationship with sexual chocolate Mark Henry.

10:02 The on-screen romance even resulted in Young becoming pregnant, although her delivery would

10:07 be a segment for the ages.

10:09 Mae Young didn't give birth to a bouncing baby boy or girl, but a hand.

10:18 There was no explanation given, although the Wrestling Observer's Dave Meltzer had insinuated

10:24 that it could perhaps be a reference to a sex toy.

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