Ripped To Shreds #56: Rippey’s Believe It Or Not- Part 2

Welcome to Ripped To Shreds.

I’m glad so many of you enjoyed my last column where I told less than famous stories regarding professional wrestlers. This time I have a new batch of stories to share with you.

Let me tell you this first though. For whatever reason, wrestlers taking a dump and then using it in a practical joke is not all that rare of an event in wrestling locker rooms. A number of these stories involve just that. Hope you guys don’t get grossed out.

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Without further ado...

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Believe It Or Not: At Wrestlemania 7, the Nasty Boys defeated the legendary Hart Foundation to win the WWE Tag Team Championship. Beating Bret Hart and Jim Neidhart was a huge accomplishment, and later that evening the Nasty Boys decided to do some well deserved partying. Also making an appearance at Wrestlemania 7 that night was the famous singer Willy Nelson. The Nasty Boys decided to invite Willy to go party with them that night, and apparently they had a wild night together. So wild in fact that they decided to give one of their tag team title belts to Willy as a gift. WWE management were not very pleased when the Nasty Boys showed up the next day with only one of their tag team title belts.

Believe It Or Not: In the eighties, Jerry “The King” Lawler made a big name for himself in the AWA. By winning AWA World Championships and having a memorable rivalry with Andy Kaufman, Lawler became a star in the wrestling industry. However, he didn’t always rub people the right way. During the beginning of his career with WWE in the early nineties, some of his coworkers decided to play a mean spirited joke on him. They were able to get ahold of his vintage crown and decided to place their excretions inside of it. They filled it up completely, packing it to the brim with shit. It’s not always good to be the King.

Believe It Or Not: Bret “The Hitman” Hart and Jim “The Anvil” Neidhart were not only brothers in law, but great friends as well. They traveled all over the country together performing in front of fans at WWE live events. They frequently shared hotel rooms together, and on one occasion Bret thought he noticed Jim doing something peculiar. Bret woke up in the middle of the night and thought he saw Jim taking a piss onto the carpeted hotel floor. In the morning Bret asked him about it, and Jim denied it. The carpet was dry, so Bret naturally assumed he dreamed it. That was until Neidhart picked up his suitcase and a ton of urine splashed out onto the rug. Apparently the Anvil had a bad habit of doing more than just walking around in his sleep. I have no idea what the explanation was, but the brothers in law had a good laugh about it.

Believe It Or Not: The late Curt Hennig was a great sports entertainer during his career. His peers remember him fondly for his talent inside the squared circle, his interview skills, and his “perfect” look. But what was not known to most fans were his good natured jokes backstage. Curt was known as being a person who was always playing practical jokes on his fellow wrestlers. On one occasion during a winter, he took a crap and then placed it outside on a window sill. After the turd became frozen, he placed it inside another wrestler’s travel bag. That wrestler did not realize this during his trip home, but when his wife went through his bag to do his laundry, she was treated to a very unfortunate surprise.

Believe It Or Not: Speaking of people in pro wrestling who played practical jokes, the late Owen Hart was known to do more than his fair share of ribs. During his program with his brother Bret Hart in '94, Bret had problem with people playing pranks on him, saying that he (then the current champion) deserved more respect. But Owen had his own plans. Before a live event once, Owen came down to the ring before people came into the arena. He brought with him a can of sardines, opened it up, and left it under the ring. That night he wrestled Bret, and during the match Owen went outside the ring and secretly grabbed a handful of smelly sardines. He got back in the ring, put Bret in a headlock, and wiped the sardines all over his face. The Hitman certainly did not appreciate this.

Believe It Or Not: To internet fans, it may be common knowledge that Brian Nobbs of the Nasty Boys and Hulk Hogan are pretty good friends. They are close enough friends that they can play jokes on each other in good fun. As part of one of these jokes Knobbs decided to take a dump into a glass. He then placed the shit filled glass in the back of one of the cabinets at Hogan’s house. Neither the Hulkster or anyone else in his family realized this, until an unbearable smell emerged over time. It wasn’t said who in the family found this, but needless to say this was not a pleasant discovery.

Believe It Or Not: As was stated earlier, Curt Hennig was known for playing practical jokes on his fellow wrestlers. During Curt’s career he got invited to a party at Animal’s (from the Road Warriors) house with a bunch of other boys from the locker room. Henning had to use the bathroom throughout the course of the party, and while in there he noticed a training potty for Animal’s very young son. Curt decided to take an adult sized shit in the training potty, and left it there. When Animal came across this, he was shocked at what he thought his young son had done.

Believe It Or Not: During my tenure as a column writer on this web site, I had always wanted to have some interaction with a famous, well known professional wrestler. In late 2006, I sent out emails to a feel known stars (not then employed by WWE) such as Dawn Marie, Shane Douglas, and Raven, to name a few. I politely asked to do interviews with them to post in my column on lordsofpain.net, but I got no responses. That is, until one day I got a response from Matt Hyson, better known as the former Spike Dudley of ECW and WWE fame. I sent Matt my questions, and in early 2007 he responded with very thorough answers.

He really went out of his way for me. He came across as a very nice guy and showed a lot of class. After I posted the interview, another columnist, Boss Foxx, decided to do a parody of the interview in his own main page column. Boss Foxx is a comedic columnist who only meant for this parody to be done in good fun. However, Matt Hyson did not take it this way. He came to the conclusion that Boss Foxx, myself, and seemingly the rest of Lords Of Pain were jerks. Boss Foxx and myself tried emailing him to explain everything, and as we were trying this, TNA (Hyson’s employer at the time) issued a statement saying that TNA talent had to have permission to do any interviews. At that point in time he suddenly stopped talking to both of us. Was this whole ordeal the reason for TNA issuing this policy? I highly doubt it.

Matt Hyson, if you’re reading, I’d like to issue yet another apology to you for everything. No one on this web site meant you any harm. I appreciate what you did for me.

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Thanks for reading. There really are a lot of wild locker room stories involving shit in sports entertainment. Again, I hope you didn’t get grossed out by some of this stuff.

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That’s all for this time around. Until next time…

Adios.

Source: lordsofpain.net