5 wrestling storylines which featured police involvement
Vince McMahon got kayfabe arrested on RawCops have been used in various WWE angles throughout the years. While it is usually various independent wrestlers playing the part of policemen and people being pretty much aware of this fact, it adds up to the unpredictability and buzz around a wrestling angleThe recent example of Vince McMahon getting arrested on Raw is not the first of its kind and it will definitely not be the last.This list takes a look at the top five instances where cops were called in to extend a wrestling angle.
#5 Goldberg gets arrested for stalking Miss Elizabeth
January 4,1999 was a pivotal date in the history of the Monday Night Wars. That night would see the TV ratings shift permanently from the side of WCW to WWE and would ultimately result in WCW going out of business.
Put simply, that night saw the infamous ‘Fingerpoke of Doom’, which was only the last of the three dumb things that happened on that night.
The first was what saw the cops being called in as Goldberg was arrested for stalking Miss Elizabeth. Goldberg had lost his unbeaten streak and the WCW title to Kevin Nash by deeply unpopular means at Starrcade and was set to challenge Nash that night.
However, he was taken away to the station and even though the charges were found to be baseless, couldn’t return to the Georgia Dome in time for his match which was supposed to happen two hours later.
The dumb thing about that predicament was that the station was just across the street from the Georgia Dome and not ‘downtown’ as WCW wanted the fans to believe – simply put Goldberg could have crawled from the station and still reached the arena in time.
WCW further shot itself in the foot by giving WWE’s taped results away on air – this time the news that Mick Foley had just won the WWE Championship. Almost immediately, 600,00 people changed the channel from Nitro to Raw to catch the feel good moment.
Finally, Hulk Hogan would replace Goldberg in the title match and ‘Big Sexy’ would drop to the floor after getting poked in the chest by Hogan and concede the title.
Fans would boo the place down and throw stuff in to the ring in disgust. WCW would close down just about two years later after this fateful night.