(Credit: The Armpit)
Eddie Guerrero vs. Charlie Haas
On the 12/11/03 SmackDown show, Los
Guerreros were wrestling Haas &
Shelton Benjamin. Eddie separated his
shoulder during the match and Haas
continued to work stiff with him.
Backstage, Eddie confronted Haas, who
claimed he wasn't aware of the injury.
Tempers flared and punches were thrown
before WWE personnel pulled them apart and
they shook hands.
Scott Steiner vs. Diamond Dallas Page,
2001
This was due to Kimberly Page finding an
illegal substance in a locker room, then
telling management that it belonged to
Tammy Sytch (Sunny). Management confronted
Tammy and she flat out denied it and
offered to take a piss test. She passed.
Scott Steiner found out and chased
Kimberly out of the building and she never
appeared on TV again. DDP tried starting
something at the next taping where Scott
shooted on TV, and that is what lead to
the fight where DDP got his ass handed to
him. (thanks to Dazraven) WINNER: Steiner.
Curt Hennig vs. Brock Lesnar, 2002
On the "Plane flight from Hell"
from the 2002 European tour, Curt was
loaded up on booze and challenged Brock to
take him down. Brock, new to the industry,
didn't know what to make of it. Heyman
reportedly told him if he doesn't do
anything about it now, he'll never live it
down. So Brock did take his ass down, and
nearly burst a hole through the plane in
the process. Hennig lost his job over his
behavior on this flight. WINNER: Lesnar.
Chris Jericho vs. Bill Goldberg, 2003
Yet another recent incident at Raw.
Goldberg mouthed off to Nash about
Jericho, stemming from their real-life
feud in WCW years back. Word got to
Jericho what Goldberg said, and he
confronted him about it. Seconds later,
they were rolling around on the ground
(violently, not lovingly, you jokesters).
Jericho reportedly had him in a front face
lock. It was broken up before any punches
really landed. Jericho was quite the hero
for this, with Hurricane reportedly being
his biggest mark. Don't these guys know
their fights will be broken up right away?
Knowing that, even I'd pick a fight with
Goldberg just to look brave for 2 seconds.
Both guys ended up shaking hands when it
was over. WINNER: Neither, but this
incident showed the Balls of Jericho.
Ric Flair vs. Mick Foley, 2004
On Raw, it was reported that Ric Flair and
Mick Foley had a bit of a punch up
backstage. Flair, who made some pretty
nasty remarks about Foley in his
autobiography and called him a
"stuntman," offered a handshake
to Foley when he arrived. Foley declined
and made a snide remark about Flair's
book. Flair took exception to this and
walloped Foley. Officials intervened
before it escalated.
Rene Dupree vs. Bob Holly, 2004
During a house show hardcore tag match
Holly gave some stiff shots to Dupree with
a chair and ended up in confrontation.
Dupree got a parking ticket using Holly's
rental car in a different state and then
made Holly fly out to deal with it. Holly,
ass that he is, took it out on Dupree in
the ring. Dupree bolted out of the ring
and there was more that took place
backstage. Holly was fined, but should've
been fired. Thanks to Dupree's lack of
popularity, Holly got the sentiment and
kept his job.
CM Punk vs. Teddy Hart (NWA TNA)
The heat started on ROH show which Hart no
selling and showing off to the crowd. He
hit unplanned spot on Special K from top
of the cage. This led Carnage Crew to beat
up Hart legit, hoping he'd sell. After the
team left, Hart continue to show off more,
doing moonsaults into standing position.
He was fired and his bags got tossed
outside, and thus begun the war of words
between him and Punk. Punk tore into him
for being disrespectful while Hart goes
off claiming Punk was on drugs and
drinking despite being straight-edge. They
still manage to stay paths away from each
other until both were working for TNA. It
was at a restaurant (ironically called
White Trash Cafe), both bump into each
other and escalated into a verbal and
physical fight which Sabu broke up. Hart
was unable to wrestle in the America's X
Cup, and Punk was eventually released.
Shame too, because both Punk and Hart are
very good workers. Hart was also released
later while his Canadian teammate Petey
Williams went on to win the X Division
title.
Kurt Angle Vs. Eddie Guerrero, late
2004
Zeeboe sent this in. "Kurt Angle and
Eddie Guerrero got into an altercation
backstage at Smackdown after the final
segment of the show. As they came through
the curtain, they exchanged words, loudly,
in front of everyone at the Gorilla
position. It quickly escalated from verbal
to physical. The word was that Angle
grabbed Eddie in a face lock and took him
down to the ground, incapacitating him,
before being pulled off by Johnny Ace and
some of the agents. Then, they apparently
got into it again further in the back
before getting broken up again. From what
I was told, Vince McMahon talked to both
men about the incident before leaving the
building. The rumor making the rounds was
that Eddie missed his cue in the final
segment, which made Kurt's character look
weak. Given the fact that Eddie wasn't
himself at the time with some people
thinking he hadn't fully recovered from
his concussion, the story I heard is that
Angle grew frustrated and told Eddie to
basically get his head in the game, and it
escalated from there. WINNER: Kurt Angle