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<p>WWE’s bread and butter is showing violence and trying to push the limits without actually killing someone. There have been some really shocking angles that have gone beyond being a storyline to something in bad taste.</p>



<p> Millennials might not even know this but the wrestling landscape was very different and here are three times WWE pushed the boundaries too far.</p>



<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Hanging Big Boss Man</strong></h2>



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<p><strong>The Undertaker</strong> has tried to murder another wrestler more than once on TV but this one has to take the cake. </p>


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<p>Undertaker was going through that weird early part of his Deadman persona where he would sacrifice his victims. After his match with the Boss Man inside a Cell he proceeded to hang Bossman from the cell as it was rising with the help of the Brood. </p>



<p>While this was done to incite shock from the audience, actually showing a man hanging was too hard to watch. The situation was made even more macabre with the way Paul Bearer was reacting to the whole thing. </p>



<p>This went beyond shock and was unpleasant and disturbing to view and possibly a moment that scarred the life of any child that was in attendance that night or watched it on TV.<br></p>







<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Dragging Big Show’s Father’s Casket</strong></h2>



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<p>Here again it was the Big Boss Man who was involved but he was perpetrating the crime here rather than being the victim. </p>


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<p>WWE has played with things like affairs between couples and dissension between brothers but spoiling someone’s funeral is the worst form of disrespect you can show. </p>



<p>The Big Show was attending his father’s burial when the Big Boss Man drove in a police car with a comically large megaphone on top. Even though all of this was fake and The Big Show’s father wasn’t actually dead, the fact that WWE did it anyway was just in bad taste. </p>



<p>This was especially an unnecessary angle as it did very little for the Big Boss Man’s career and just stands out as WWE’s cheap attempt at manufacturing a moment that would jolt the WWE universe from their seats.<br></p>







<h2 class="wp-block-heading"><strong>Sable’s Handprint Bikini</strong></h2>



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<p>If one moment was needed to show how the female wrestlers in the past were viewed as then this is all you need to see. </p>



<p>Women were only viewed as eye candy who were there to further the interests of men. They were objectified all through the attitude era and this moment was the zenith of it all. </p>


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<p>Sable was an incredibly sensuous woman and it seemed like Vince and his cohorts were looking for every opportunity to undress her. The annual bikini contest was a thing back then which while being a bit edgy was nothing more than what other TV shows were doing at this time. </p>



<p>This segment, however, bordered on full nudity as Sable removed her top with nothing but two handprints covering her delicates. </p>



<p>The reaction of Jerry Lawler and the pervs on commentary just made everything incredibly cheesy and it is probably segments like this that gave pro-wrestling a bad name and condemned women for many more years to come.<br></p>

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