You Fucked Up! (The On-Air Punishment Thread)

[Anybody Thrilla]

It's been a time-honored tradition in the world of professional wrestling for workers to be punished for something that they did either on-air or backstage. While I think that punishing those workers on-air is detrimental to just about everyone, sometimes some silly things were bred from it. Exhibit A:

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Perry Saturn was reportedly saddled with the meant-to-be embarrassing 'Moppy' schtick following an incident where he shot on Mike Bell:

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He sort of made the gimmick work...but not really.

What are some other examples of workers being punished on-air? Who do you think was screwed the most from one of these scenarios? Who do you think turned the scenarios around and made them work?

[James Steele]

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[Anybody Thrilla]

I don't think that's really the same thing.

[James Steele]

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[James Steele]

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[Supreme Olajuwon]

I don't know if the timeline is right but was Triple H's slop feud with Henry Godwin punishment for the MSG incident

I guess I could look it up, but you know, reasons.

[Swiss Ultimate]

Was Pepe a punishment for Chavo?

[Vastardikai]

Piggy James.

"Adorable" Adrian Adonis.

[CSL]

Was Pepe a punishment for Chavo?

nah, Chavo did it off his own back and it wound up getting over a bit/having to run with it

[JimmyMess]

Mark Henry and Mae and the hand

[Swiss Ultimate]

Mark Henry and Mae and the hand

What did Mark Henry do to deserve that?

[Vastardikai]

Made too much and wasn't worth the investment at the time.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Was Pepe a punishment for Chavo?

nah, Chavo did it off his own back and it wound up getting over a bit/having to run with it

I actually was listening to Chavo tell that story himself last week on Jericho's podcast.

Pepe came about during the time where Chavo had to be Eddie's personal servant because he lost to him in a match. Somebody made Chavo the "EDDIE GUERRERO IS MY FAVORITE WRESTLER" shirt (which Chavo was ADAMANTLY against wearing on air at first, but it got over), and eventually started going crazy. The original Pepe was Eddie's daughter's, as they were dicking around with it at a barbeque at Eddie's house, and it was suggested that Chavo use it on air. He only planned on doing it once, but it caught on.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Piggy James.

"Adorable" Adrian Adonis.

What did they do to deserve punishment?

Made too much and wasn't worth the investment at the time.

Ha, hardly his fault.

[JimmyMess]

What did Mark Henry do to deserve that?

don't recall what it was, but I have heard more than once that it was a punishment thing for Henry.

[CSL]

the "rumour goes" that Adonis was given the "Adorable One" gimmick with all of the flamboyant...ness for basically getting really fat. The Mickie James rumour is that she was banging John Cena and got lumped with it after that finished. Not sure how much I believe either of them, the Piggy James one at least.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Adonis really nailed it. Laycool cracked me up during Piggy James, even though it made pretty much zero sense.

[JimmyMess]

what about Natalie Neidhart farting?

[Anybody Thrilla]

Hahaha, yeah, what the fuck was that about?

[Anybody Thrilla]

:lol:

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I miss Booker T on commentary.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Seriously dying right now. That was so ridiculous. Didn't call a single move in that video. Just talked about farts, even after the finish.

[Bad News Gertner]

What did they do to deserve punishment?



Ha, hardly his fault.

Lol look at Adonis in the early 80's and compare to the late 80's and you'll see why

[Bad News Gertner]

don't recall what it was, but I have heard more than once that it was a punishment thing for Henry.

Gained a shitload of weight

[Lock Jaw]

I miss Booker T on commentary as well

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[Heisenberg]

Morrison made people jelly backstage so they put him with the Miz and then put the title on Miz and made Morrison the Janetty of the lot

[Anybody Thrilla]

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v.

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Adorable.

[Bad News Gertner]

Adrian Adonis was amazing

[Bad News Gertner]

The Red Rooster and Polkadot Dusty Rhodes were pretty much Vince being a dickhead.

[Anybody Thrilla]

At least Dusty got to hang out with that smoke show, Sapphire.

[XL]

Not really a punishment I guess, but wasn't Cena's rapper gimmick given to him with the expectation that it had no chance of getting over?

[Heisenberg]

No. That was WWE trying to be hip with rap being a main genre in the world

[Anybody Thrilla]

Not really a punishment I guess, but wasn't Cena's rapper gimmick given to him with the expectation that it had no chance of getting over?

I feel like it was based off of a Halloween episode of Smackdown where he dressed as Vanilla Ice. I could be wrong.

I could definitely see people joking with him and him being like "I actually do rap a little bit, you know" and they were like "Whaaaaaaaaaa?" and the rest is history.

[Anybody Thrilla]

THROWBACK JAM:

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[Vastardikai]

Gained a shitload of weight

And they were trying to humiliate him into quitting, so they wouldn't have to pay that big ass paycheck they were giving him.

[Vastardikai]

Another one: The Serena video.

[Anybody Thrilla]

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[XL]

Didn't Drew get depushed due to an argument with his then girlfriend Tiffany?

[Anybody Thrilla]

http://www.wrestling-match.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/DrewTiffany.jpg

[James Steele]

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[whiteyford]

Didn't Drew get depushed due to an argument with his then girlfriend Tiffany?

Wife I thought, read she kicked his ass in a hotel room over something/nothing and he got heat for it.

[voncouch]

The Red Rooster and Polkadot Dusty Rhodes were pretty much Vince being a dickhead.

I don't know about the Rooster, but according to Dusty's book, the polka dots were his and Vince's idea. He just had no idea how awful he'd look in them.

[Anybody Thrilla]

Has anyone ever looked tough in polka dots?

[Vastardikai]

Wrestling Superstar Mike Jones has twice been used as a rib on competition. Virgil being a reference to Dusty. Vincent being a reference to... Bob Backlund. :shifty: He also squashed Dusty in house shows.

[Anybody Thrilla]

I can't imagine Virgil squashing anyone.

[Ol Dirty Dastard]

It was kind of crazy that they gave him the type of win they did against Dibiase.

[Anybody Thrilla]

He HAD to win that match.