10 Most embarrassing live TV moments in Pro-Wrestling
Ah, professional wrestling--or sports entertainment, if you want to make yourself sound trendy and intelligent.
It is a world of contradictions, where heavily muscled alpha males threaten each other but try not to actually cause injury in the ring.
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It is a world where people who aren't wearing pants fight over a belt. It is a world of entertainment, where things might be scripted but definitely doesn't always go according to plan.
Professional wrestlers are consummate performers, able to improvise when things don't always go according to plan.
Of course, sometimes the plan is laid out and the wrestler ends up flubbing something simple or forgets a line. Then there's the time that Triple H spent several very awkward moments searching through a pile of barbed wire 2x4s until he found the harmless 'prop' version...
In short, Pro wrestling, like any other form of live entertainment, sometimes hits a snafu. Sometimes the result is not only hilarious; it's pro wrestling history. We salute ten of the most embarrassing yet undeniably entertaining moments from pro wrestling history.
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#1 Mean Gene Okerlund- Dropping salty language live on Pay Per View
SummerSlam was WWE's first foray into a secondary major event, meant to be the mid-year equivalent of Wrestlemania.
SummerSlam has given us many classic moments, such as Honky Tonk Man losing the Intercontinental championship in a matter of seconds to the Ultimate Warrior.
It has also been the place where things didn't always go according to plan. In the video below, dearly departed veteran interviewer 'Mean' Gene Okerlund is startled when a Summerslam poster suddenly crashes behind him and ends up saying a few things you're not supposed to say on television.