Post by Burke on Aug 26, 2015 14:55:02 GMT -5
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This site compiles all kinds of stories from wrestling autobiographies and things like that. Post some of your favourites if you want.
I'll do an infamous one:
Some of these people sound genuinely insane. I'd have been terrified to be on a plane with them.
This site compiles all kinds of stories from wrestling autobiographies and things like that. Post some of your favourites if you want.
I'll do an infamous one:
‘PLANES, PILLS and SPINNING DICKS’ – The Exclusive Inside Story of WWE’s “PLANE RIDE FROM HELL!”
Wrestling On May 5th 2002, the WWE finished its tour of Britain with the taping of the ‘Insurrextion‘ pay-per-view in London.
The unbelievable chaos that ensued on that fateful flight has since passed into wrestling folklore – an orgy of excess, violence and sexual misconduct that would ultimately spell the end of at least two notable careers.
Today we sift through the details as well as hear detailed first-hand accounts from two eyewitnesses – JUSTIN CREDIBLE and SEAN ‘X-PAC’ WALTMAN who were there in the thick of it.
So put your seat upright, fasten your seatbelt – there may be some turbulence along the way…
(Warning: inevitably, some of the language you are about to read is a of a ‘colorful’ nature. Discretion, etc, is advised.)
JUSTIN CREDIBLE:
“Vince at the time was chartering flights. We weren’t on commercial flights – we’d rent a whole plane. We had a 747 – all ours. Meaning [not only] all the wrestlers [but also] the TV crew. So we have every cameraman, all the girls that make the costumes, tour managers, everybody – a full plane of WWE people.
Now with that comes – and I bet you Vince has not done it since – a full and open bar. And what I mean by that is…a plane filled with alcoholic wrestlers at the end of a gruelling tour. So think about it…it’s like the last day of school…”
SEAN WALTMAN:
“It was brewing…everybody had their different little deals they were doing…some people were doing GHB [Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid], getting pilled-up – whatever, you know…
You could buy [GHB] in the healthfood store. It was legal, so that was the reason everyone was doing it. But it…fucked…you…up…”
Events started out more or less innocently when Curt Hennig and Scott Hall got hold of shaving cream canisters and proceeded to run around ‘tagging’ multiple individuals with the contents. Goofy stuff.
But more serious was to come.
PERFECT vs LESNAR
Curt Hennig and Brock Lesnar were close friends who travelled on the road together, both hailing from Minnesota. But during the long flight they got restless, leading to what started out as a friendly amateur wrestling-style ‘take-down’ tussle after Curt insisted he was a better grappler than the younger Brock.
WALTMAN:
“Curt Hennig was always real competitive, you know? Him and Brock…we all hung out because we all lived in Minnesota…”
JUSTIN CREDIBLE:
“They weren’t fighting…at first.
But they’re very competitive so they’re just scraping along, like messing around – then something happened where it got serious. It didn’t come to blows – but you know the opening that they have on planes – those openings are the emergency exit rows. Now Brock’s a wrestling shooter – and Curt’s a shooter kind’a too – so they took it seriously. They didn’t wanna give in to each other. They went at it so hard [Lesnar shot in and drove Hennig so hard into the side] that they almost popped open the emergency exit – twenty-five, thirty thousand feet in the air…people [among them: Dave Finley, Triple H, and Paul Heyman] had to separate them.”
WALTMAN:
“Obviously [WWE management] made a big deal out of it…the fuckin’ door – it’s impossible for it to open at that altitude. So it was real stupid. [The flight before] Vince and Kurt Angle had a take-down tournament in the aisle – but as soon as it happened with [Hennig and Lesnar] they made a big deal out of it…”
FLAIR vs SEXUAL HARASSMENT CHARGES
WALTMAN:
“Then fuckin’ Flair comes out in his robe…”
CREDIBLE:
“…nothing on underneath…”
WALTMAN:
“…fuckin’ balls naked, struttin’ down the aisleway…”
CREDIBLE:
” Sixty year old man, junk flying everywhere. Going up to the stewardesses, ‘C’mon sweetheart! [flashes open robe] ‘WOOOOO!!!’
Grantland.com reported:
‘Two flight attendants, Taralyn Cappellano and Heidi Doyle, would compile their allegations into a 2004 lawsuit. Chief among the chronicled misdeeds was [Flair’s] sexual aggression. He wore nothing but a jewelled cape, the flight attendants said, and ‘flashed his nakedness, spinning his penis around.’ He separately grabbed each woman’s hand and placed it on his crotch, and then ‘forcibly detained and restrained’ Doyle ‘from leaving the back of the galley of the airplane while he sexually assaulted her.”
Flair would later insist there was no truth to these incidents, though the WWE eventually settled out of court with both women.
GOLDUST vs The PA System
Also implicated in the lawsuit was Dustin Rhodes (a.k.a, Goldust) whom, according to attendant Taralyn Cappellano, told her, ‘You and me are gonna FUCK.’
But it wasn’t until Rhodes managed to get control of the plane’s P.A system to start singing an awkward, slurred serenade to his ex-wife Terri Runnels – who was also on the flight – that the then-President of talent relations Jim Ross enforced his authority to shut him down.
SCOTT HALL vs CONSCIOUSNESS
JUSTIN CREDIBLE:
“You had Scott Hall too…out of his mind. Completely out of his mind, shimmying and shaking…”
Hall didn’t last long on the flight before slipping unconscious. But, although there are conflicting reports as to his involvement in the shenanigans (JR himself insisted Hall was not involved with any of the major incidents) in the time that he was awake he seemed to have done enough to put last rites to his ailing WWE career.
Aside from the earlier ‘shaving cream’ antics, it seems some of Hall’s contributions to the flight were of a much more sinister nature.
In the harassment allegations, attendant Doyle claims Hall slobbered on her face before telling her he wanted to ‘lick her pussy.’ He told Cappellano to ‘Suck his dick.’ Then he passed out – so deeply in fact, that people had to check his pulse to see if he was still alive.
CREDIBLE:
“I had to babysit Scott. I had to stay straight because everyone else was so fucked up!
[Later] when we got off the flight I had to get a wheelchair and roll him through customs at JFK. He was non-responsive. I remember Jim Ross sitting in baggage claim with his briefcase just going like this [disdainful shake of the head]. That look of disgust. And I’m like… [shrugs].”
HAYES vs JBL vs WALTMAN – ‘Mullet Match!’
CREDIBLE:
“Michael Hayes was getting real bad. And he’s got a lot of heat [anyway]. Nobody likes him. He was drunk. Rowdy as fuck. Like, being a dick. Loud and obnoxious…”
WALTMAN:
“Hayes almost pissed on Linda McMahon. He was all fucked up – trying to whip his dick out [stooped over, tugging at his trouser zip] He doesn’t know it’s Linda – he thinks he’s at the fuckin’ bathroom. He’s like… [Hayes’ voice] ‘Wait a minute…wait a minute…’ He just keeps saying ‘Wait a minute’, over and over again. Finally somebody [led him away]…”
CREDIBLE:
“JBL had just had a killer match [earlier at the PPV] and was cut open bad…”
WALTMAN:
“I had a match with Bradshaw [JBL] for the pay-per-view in England and he got some color, [open wound] so he had this big ol’ fuckin’ [gash] on his head.”
CREDIBLE:
“So he’s sitting there sleeping, bandaged up, getting some z’s… and Michael Hayes comes up [shouting] ‘HEY YEW FUCKIN’ RED-NEHH’CK..!’ And pops him right in the forehead…”
WALTMAN:
“You know the Freebirds’ thing where they always go [protruded knuckle tap] – he was like – BOOM!…”
CREDIBLE:
“…and opens his gash. So now, Bradshaw’s in a suit, nice clothes – busted wide open – bleeding like a pig over his suit…
WALTMAN:
“And the story goes that Bradshaw fuckin’ clocked him and knocked him out…”
CREDIBLE:
“He wanted to go after Hayes…but JBL’s a wrestler, Michael Hayes is ‘office’ – he’s like, your boss. What are you gonna do, kick your bosses ass?
But obviously Hayes is way out of line. He continues his bullshit…but then he falls asleep…”
WALTMAN:
“So [Hayes is] out cold…and he’s got that fuckin’ thing in a fuckin’ ponytail…that mullet – you know, he was still rockin’ the mullet – and I said, ‘Somebody get me a pair of scissors!’
I remember Lawler over there just giggling. Everybody is like, ‘No, no, no – you’re not gonna do it…’
I grabbed those scissors like I was pulling a pair of taped brass knucks out of my tights [over-exaggerated reach down the front of his jeans and everybody’s looking and they don’t think I’m gonna do it. I grab that fuckin’ tail and I lift it up and I just went WHACK [chops it off] and the whole plane just erupted, like ‘YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!!!’“
Hayes would not realise until he was later going through customs.
CREDIBLE:
“I’ve never seen anyone [who is] so drunk and pilled-up, look at himself as we’re going through security and saw the mirror’s reflection…it was like something out of a movie. He went [sleepily raises hand to fluff up hair at the back, only to find nothing]. He popped out, like stone-cold sober – ‘MUTHAFFFF….’ – this is going through customs! Now Michael Hayes – he’s fuckin’ red – wants to fight people in customs. You’re talking U.S agents!
And nobody stooges ‘Pac…nobody snitches on him. Because nobody liked [Hayes]…”
JIM ROSS (statement in the ‘Ross Report’ on WWE.com):
“The flight was about seven hours in length and at times was low-lighted by a handful of people who consumed too much alcohol and consequently acted like children whose parents were away and left the liquor cabinet unlocked. The conduct of this inebriated minority was unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Procedures have been put in place to ensure such conduct does not occur in the future.”
CREDIBLE:
“Vince could’ve gotten in a lot of trouble. [He was] technically in charge of a plane. Someone could have died on that flight…”
AFTERMATH:
Fallout from the flight was in some cases swift.
Dustin Rhodes, after a period of being on the outer within the company, was eventually dropped by WWE in late 2003. He did however eventually return to the company in later years.
Not to return however was all-time great and posthumous hall of famer Curt Hennig. He was seemingly held solely accountable for the ‘aircraft door’ incident with Brock Lesnar and shortly after Hennig was released from his WWE contract. He died the next year.
As Hennig and Rhodes’ contracts were headed for the shredder, so too was Scott Hall’s. His release was announced too just days later (though his poor physical shape during the tour was also cited as cause for his severance.)
He would sign shortly after with the then-debuting NWA:TNA promotion.
And what became of Hayes’ severed ponytail?
WALTMAN:
“I posted it on the wall at TV the next day…” (laughs)
Wrestling On May 5th 2002, the WWE finished its tour of Britain with the taping of the ‘Insurrextion‘ pay-per-view in London.
The unbelievable chaos that ensued on that fateful flight has since passed into wrestling folklore – an orgy of excess, violence and sexual misconduct that would ultimately spell the end of at least two notable careers.
Today we sift through the details as well as hear detailed first-hand accounts from two eyewitnesses – JUSTIN CREDIBLE and SEAN ‘X-PAC’ WALTMAN who were there in the thick of it.
So put your seat upright, fasten your seatbelt – there may be some turbulence along the way…
(Warning: inevitably, some of the language you are about to read is a of a ‘colorful’ nature. Discretion, etc, is advised.)
JUSTIN CREDIBLE:
“Vince at the time was chartering flights. We weren’t on commercial flights – we’d rent a whole plane. We had a 747 – all ours. Meaning [not only] all the wrestlers [but also] the TV crew. So we have every cameraman, all the girls that make the costumes, tour managers, everybody – a full plane of WWE people.
Now with that comes – and I bet you Vince has not done it since – a full and open bar. And what I mean by that is…a plane filled with alcoholic wrestlers at the end of a gruelling tour. So think about it…it’s like the last day of school…”
SEAN WALTMAN:
“It was brewing…everybody had their different little deals they were doing…some people were doing GHB [Gamma-Hydroxybutyric acid], getting pilled-up – whatever, you know…
You could buy [GHB] in the healthfood store. It was legal, so that was the reason everyone was doing it. But it…fucked…you…up…”
Events started out more or less innocently when Curt Hennig and Scott Hall got hold of shaving cream canisters and proceeded to run around ‘tagging’ multiple individuals with the contents. Goofy stuff.
But more serious was to come.
PERFECT vs LESNAR
Curt Hennig and Brock Lesnar were close friends who travelled on the road together, both hailing from Minnesota. But during the long flight they got restless, leading to what started out as a friendly amateur wrestling-style ‘take-down’ tussle after Curt insisted he was a better grappler than the younger Brock.
WALTMAN:
“Curt Hennig was always real competitive, you know? Him and Brock…we all hung out because we all lived in Minnesota…”
JUSTIN CREDIBLE:
“They weren’t fighting…at first.
But they’re very competitive so they’re just scraping along, like messing around – then something happened where it got serious. It didn’t come to blows – but you know the opening that they have on planes – those openings are the emergency exit rows. Now Brock’s a wrestling shooter – and Curt’s a shooter kind’a too – so they took it seriously. They didn’t wanna give in to each other. They went at it so hard [Lesnar shot in and drove Hennig so hard into the side] that they almost popped open the emergency exit – twenty-five, thirty thousand feet in the air…people [among them: Dave Finley, Triple H, and Paul Heyman] had to separate them.”
WALTMAN:
“Obviously [WWE management] made a big deal out of it…the fuckin’ door – it’s impossible for it to open at that altitude. So it was real stupid. [The flight before] Vince and Kurt Angle had a take-down tournament in the aisle – but as soon as it happened with [Hennig and Lesnar] they made a big deal out of it…”
FLAIR vs SEXUAL HARASSMENT CHARGES
WALTMAN:
“Then fuckin’ Flair comes out in his robe…”
CREDIBLE:
“…nothing on underneath…”
WALTMAN:
“…fuckin’ balls naked, struttin’ down the aisleway…”
CREDIBLE:
” Sixty year old man, junk flying everywhere. Going up to the stewardesses, ‘C’mon sweetheart! [flashes open robe] ‘WOOOOO!!!’
Grantland.com reported:
‘Two flight attendants, Taralyn Cappellano and Heidi Doyle, would compile their allegations into a 2004 lawsuit. Chief among the chronicled misdeeds was [Flair’s] sexual aggression. He wore nothing but a jewelled cape, the flight attendants said, and ‘flashed his nakedness, spinning his penis around.’ He separately grabbed each woman’s hand and placed it on his crotch, and then ‘forcibly detained and restrained’ Doyle ‘from leaving the back of the galley of the airplane while he sexually assaulted her.”
Flair would later insist there was no truth to these incidents, though the WWE eventually settled out of court with both women.
GOLDUST vs The PA System
Also implicated in the lawsuit was Dustin Rhodes (a.k.a, Goldust) whom, according to attendant Taralyn Cappellano, told her, ‘You and me are gonna FUCK.’
But it wasn’t until Rhodes managed to get control of the plane’s P.A system to start singing an awkward, slurred serenade to his ex-wife Terri Runnels – who was also on the flight – that the then-President of talent relations Jim Ross enforced his authority to shut him down.
SCOTT HALL vs CONSCIOUSNESS
JUSTIN CREDIBLE:
“You had Scott Hall too…out of his mind. Completely out of his mind, shimmying and shaking…”
Hall didn’t last long on the flight before slipping unconscious. But, although there are conflicting reports as to his involvement in the shenanigans (JR himself insisted Hall was not involved with any of the major incidents) in the time that he was awake he seemed to have done enough to put last rites to his ailing WWE career.
Aside from the earlier ‘shaving cream’ antics, it seems some of Hall’s contributions to the flight were of a much more sinister nature.
In the harassment allegations, attendant Doyle claims Hall slobbered on her face before telling her he wanted to ‘lick her pussy.’ He told Cappellano to ‘Suck his dick.’ Then he passed out – so deeply in fact, that people had to check his pulse to see if he was still alive.
CREDIBLE:
“I had to babysit Scott. I had to stay straight because everyone else was so fucked up!
[Later] when we got off the flight I had to get a wheelchair and roll him through customs at JFK. He was non-responsive. I remember Jim Ross sitting in baggage claim with his briefcase just going like this [disdainful shake of the head]. That look of disgust. And I’m like… [shrugs].”
HAYES vs JBL vs WALTMAN – ‘Mullet Match!’
CREDIBLE:
“Michael Hayes was getting real bad. And he’s got a lot of heat [anyway]. Nobody likes him. He was drunk. Rowdy as fuck. Like, being a dick. Loud and obnoxious…”
WALTMAN:
“Hayes almost pissed on Linda McMahon. He was all fucked up – trying to whip his dick out [stooped over, tugging at his trouser zip] He doesn’t know it’s Linda – he thinks he’s at the fuckin’ bathroom. He’s like… [Hayes’ voice] ‘Wait a minute…wait a minute…’ He just keeps saying ‘Wait a minute’, over and over again. Finally somebody [led him away]…”
CREDIBLE:
“JBL had just had a killer match [earlier at the PPV] and was cut open bad…”
WALTMAN:
“I had a match with Bradshaw [JBL] for the pay-per-view in England and he got some color, [open wound] so he had this big ol’ fuckin’ [gash] on his head.”
CREDIBLE:
“So he’s sitting there sleeping, bandaged up, getting some z’s… and Michael Hayes comes up [shouting] ‘HEY YEW FUCKIN’ RED-NEHH’CK..!’ And pops him right in the forehead…”
WALTMAN:
“You know the Freebirds’ thing where they always go [protruded knuckle tap] – he was like – BOOM!…”
CREDIBLE:
“…and opens his gash. So now, Bradshaw’s in a suit, nice clothes – busted wide open – bleeding like a pig over his suit…
WALTMAN:
“And the story goes that Bradshaw fuckin’ clocked him and knocked him out…”
CREDIBLE:
“He wanted to go after Hayes…but JBL’s a wrestler, Michael Hayes is ‘office’ – he’s like, your boss. What are you gonna do, kick your bosses ass?
But obviously Hayes is way out of line. He continues his bullshit…but then he falls asleep…”
WALTMAN:
“So [Hayes is] out cold…and he’s got that fuckin’ thing in a fuckin’ ponytail…that mullet – you know, he was still rockin’ the mullet – and I said, ‘Somebody get me a pair of scissors!’
I remember Lawler over there just giggling. Everybody is like, ‘No, no, no – you’re not gonna do it…’
I grabbed those scissors like I was pulling a pair of taped brass knucks out of my tights [over-exaggerated reach down the front of his jeans and everybody’s looking and they don’t think I’m gonna do it. I grab that fuckin’ tail and I lift it up and I just went WHACK [chops it off] and the whole plane just erupted, like ‘YEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!!!!’“
Hayes would not realise until he was later going through customs.
CREDIBLE:
“I’ve never seen anyone [who is] so drunk and pilled-up, look at himself as we’re going through security and saw the mirror’s reflection…it was like something out of a movie. He went [sleepily raises hand to fluff up hair at the back, only to find nothing]. He popped out, like stone-cold sober – ‘MUTHAFFFF….’ – this is going through customs! Now Michael Hayes – he’s fuckin’ red – wants to fight people in customs. You’re talking U.S agents!
And nobody stooges ‘Pac…nobody snitches on him. Because nobody liked [Hayes]…”
JIM ROSS (statement in the ‘Ross Report’ on WWE.com):
“The flight was about seven hours in length and at times was low-lighted by a handful of people who consumed too much alcohol and consequently acted like children whose parents were away and left the liquor cabinet unlocked. The conduct of this inebriated minority was unacceptable and will not be tolerated. Procedures have been put in place to ensure such conduct does not occur in the future.”
CREDIBLE:
“Vince could’ve gotten in a lot of trouble. [He was] technically in charge of a plane. Someone could have died on that flight…”
AFTERMATH:
Fallout from the flight was in some cases swift.
Dustin Rhodes, after a period of being on the outer within the company, was eventually dropped by WWE in late 2003. He did however eventually return to the company in later years.
Not to return however was all-time great and posthumous hall of famer Curt Hennig. He was seemingly held solely accountable for the ‘aircraft door’ incident with Brock Lesnar and shortly after Hennig was released from his WWE contract. He died the next year.
As Hennig and Rhodes’ contracts were headed for the shredder, so too was Scott Hall’s. His release was announced too just days later (though his poor physical shape during the tour was also cited as cause for his severance.)
He would sign shortly after with the then-debuting NWA:TNA promotion.
And what became of Hayes’ severed ponytail?
WALTMAN:
“I posted it on the wall at TV the next day…” (laughs)
Some of these people sound genuinely insane. I'd have been terrified to be on a plane with them.
