The good folks at the Squared Circle Reddit thread are always good for a story or two. Over the weekend — in light of all the run-ins at WWE events — a thread opened for people to talk about the times they got kicked out of a wrestling show. The results are pretty spectacular. We have one-eyed janitors, Undertaker tattoos and Davey Richards being a dick. What else can you ask for?
Here’s ZombieBoy with the home run out the gate. A story about One-Eyed Lance.
One Eyed Lance was a janitor at my school.
I lived on an Army Base, I’m pretty sure I was like 11 years old. Anyhow, the WCW decided to come perform for the base with the main event being Ric Flair vs Sting for the title. Pretty much every kid from my school was in attendance. One Eyed Lance, apparently liked to watch wrestling, really really liked Sting, really really really didn’t like cheaters, and really really really really liked drinking at “sporting” events.
Well about halfway through the match, Ric Flair began to do what I can only describe as, “Ric Flair Sh*t”. The Dirtiest Player in the Game was bringing out all the tricks, rake the eyes, scratch the back, and at some point he did the classic pull the ref in close for a chat while he gave Stings twig and berries a pretty good shot.The Drunken Janitor, One Eyed Lance had seen enough at that point. He jumped the rail and into the ring, as if he was the Green Arrow trying to sell a Summer Slam match, and commenced to punching Ric Flair directly in the face and neck area.
I’d say he landed about six good shots before Flair turned around and pushed him. At that point in time the military police arrived, and tackled the Custodial Cyclops down and rolled him out of the ring.
The rest of the time I was in middle school, not one person f*cking with the janitor.
** Side Note: One Eyed Lance was known in my moms bar as the guy who would pop his fake eyeball out and let it float in his drink while he tried to forget he was a janitor at a middle school.
Don’t mess with The Undertaker… but Mrin_Codex knows a lady who wanted a piece of Paul Bearer.
I would never do anything to get tossed out of a wrestling show, but I had 3rd row seats to RAW in 1997.
During a break, this super goth girl came down and asked to sit in my friend’s seat. Dyed black hair, tank top, and she showed me her Undertaker tattoo.
When Taker came out for the next segment, she jumped the guard rail and tackled…Paul Bearer! She clung desperately to him as security came down and hauled her off to the back.
Have you ever touched Bob Backlund’s wiener over his pants? NXTMark has.
The best story I have that would be relative to this thread is from Smackdown in the early 2000s. I live in Connecticut and Bob Backlund used to campaign in the crowds at every single WWE live event in that state. I was just starting high school at the time, and this was the era in my life when “jimmy tapping,” i.e. back-hand slapping somebody in the dick, became a thing. I was walking to the concessions from my seat heading up the arena stairs at the very same time Bob Backlund was making his way down the stairs to the floor. As he passed by me and my friends, I reached up towards him and gave him a jimmy slap on my way up the stairs. He stopped. Turned around. Looked up the stairs and yelled: “YOU DON’T TOUCH ME THERE LITTLE BOY!!” He continued to yell, but as soon as he started we had already started to run up the stairs towards the concessions. I would see him later on over the years at other live events. Still campaigning. Still being Bob Backlund. But I always wondered if he remembered the time he went to smackdown and got jimmy tapped in the dick. I was young. It was stupid, but hilarious at the time. And I may, or may not have, technically sexually assaulted a former WWF champion in my life.
From stu-el:
A Smackdown show I was at several years ago.. a guy threw a drink down from a slightly elevated section, onto Edge. Who promptly jumped up, grabbed the guy by the neck, pulled him down, and went to work on him — until security pulled him off the guy.
I support Edge in this 100%. EDIT: Apparently, it wasn’t Edge. I forget who exactly it was then, but the description of events, and my support, are still right. I don’t recall exactly when it was, but they filmed an ECW episode too, the one where Holly got that awful slash across his back.
And finally, indie wrestling’s most hated real-life person, Davey Richards, looking like a jerk, thanks to MiseryOpponent and this story.
I’m at a ROH show with my back to the curtain, sitting just next to the entrance. I’m booing Eddie Edwards and cheering Chris Hero. I hear “Hey!” from behind me and there’s Davey Richards’ face poking out through the curtain. Maybe it was the amused look on my face, but he immediately punches me square in the mouth. Nobody there except the people who saw it believed me later, because apparently a punch from Davey would have “destroyed my face.” It hurt a little the next day, but in the moment it was really nothing for whatever reason, so I laugh and say “Ohhh, Davey’s sensitive,” and then he tries to spit on me but misses and disappears behind the curtain. Shane Hagadorn replaces him and he tells me to leave. I like Shane enough, but I’m pretty much ignoring him because I didn’t do anything even remotely wrong. I hear wrestlers in the back trying to get Davey to stop being such a spaz. Security comes to kick me out and I leave after getting my refund.
