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00:00Wrestling is scripted, this we know. The challenge remains the same, however.
00:04No matter how a fan approaches a story, the wrestler still wants to convince them that
00:07what's happening may be more real than they realize. It's called the suspension of disbelief.
00:12Of course, when you are pushing the envelope, things can go too far,
00:14and the reaction after the fact is always carnage. The audience then realizes maybe
00:18something is going on here, and all of a sudden it becomes a story of itself,
00:22and that's the reason we keep on watching. So I am Simon Miller and let's sit down and
00:26go over some of these moments and try and figure out what the flub was going on.
00:307. Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton
00:32April 4th, 2025, SmackDown
00:35Charlotte Flair and Tiffany Stratton were preparing for their WrestleMania match,
00:38as you'd expect. They had a big promo battle in the ring, and it was intriguing,
00:41and Flair was quite clearly pushing Tiffany throughout all of these interactions.
00:45There had been a few occasions already when Charlotte threw in some lines Stratton wasn't ready for,
00:49let us see you think on your feet. When you can watch any major feud like this in WWE,
00:53the veterans do it all the time. It sort of brought over here though,
00:57as the Chicago crowd got on Charlotte so much, she did seem a little bit fazed.
01:01She was meant to be a babyface at the time, maybe. It was sort of all over the place.
01:05But of all the things, her podcast appearances leading up to this felt like she was trying to
01:08be more open. She got into detail about her recent divorces and her life struggles.
01:12These are always difficult things to discuss. It did mean once they started shouting at each
01:16other again, Tiffany decided to even the odds. Stratton wondered if Charlotte's foul
01:20mood was down to the fact she was now 0-3 in marriages. Sheesh.
01:25Flair then threw back that Kaiser had been in her DMs, and yes, at the time,
01:29Tiffany was dating Ludwig Kaiser. This was not part of the storyline too,
01:32and you can tell. They just started shooting.
01:35Even the way Stratton leaves the ring feels like she knew what she had done here,
01:37because she basically scarpers. And yes, you can see this on WWE Unreal.
01:42Now that series is part reality and part what WWE would like you to see.
01:46But I don't think Charlotte or WWE was very pleased with this at all. You just don't do that
01:50without clearance first. It did make for a fascinating Mania match though, which I will
01:53always defend. It was all over the place, but that made it stand out. It felt like a fight.
01:58It was totally chaotic. You can see this segment for yourself though.
02:01I don't think it takes a genius to figure it out.
02:03Number 6, Ricky Starks and Adam Copeland
02:05I am still super intrigued to know what happened on this episode of AEW Collision. It was the 14th of
02:10October 2023, and the interaction between the two felt incredibly charged up.
02:14Ricky Starks and Big Bill had approached Bryan Danielson and Adam Copeland to talk about the
02:17AEW tag team titles. When he quipped to Adam, maybe you should stop looking at me with those bug
02:22eyes. Copeland can't have liked that, so he just erupted that Stark was nothing more than a
02:27vanilla midget version of The Rock. Man, that felt charged. As the radar superstar continued to talk
02:33over Ricky, Starks then threw in comments that all of this was really sending him over the edge.
02:37You can figure that one out. And that sort of ended this because Ricky was meant to be
02:41talking to Danielson at the time, and now he was just shouting at Adam Copeland.
02:44So how this got so emotional I do not know, but it did, and you can just tell it wasn't
02:48part of
02:48the plan because there is some proper base in these insults. It's never really been chatted
02:52about properly either, so I guess Ricky just found a way to push Adam's buttons, and that does happen.
02:58Not entirely sure. Vanilla midget is the best term in 2025 though, because the business has evolved.
03:02Wrestlers naturally have got smaller. I think ultimately it's been a bit of a net positive.
03:07By the time this was done, I expected the Curb Your Enthusiasm credits to roll. That's how
03:11uncomfortable it got. Number 5, Big Cass destroys a little person.
03:15So this is timely, given what I am recording this video. We just saw Dominic Mysterio introduce
03:19a little person pretending to be John Cena in a segment that felt like it was from 10 years ago.
03:24Turns out 7 years would have been more accurate as Big Cass did this in 2018.
03:28It was the first of May Smackdown 2 when Big Cass was feuding with Daniel Bryan,
03:31so of course he got a little person to dress up as him. How that is a sentence I don't
03:35know,
03:35and just for the record, it was awful then, and it's awful now, just never understood what the joke
03:40is meant to be. Whatever reasons, the instructions from management to Big Cass was to just boot this
03:44guy and then leave it be. But he did not. As soon as he could, he laid in punches too,
03:48which was directly ignoring an edict from Vince McMahon. I mean, what the flub did you think
03:52was going to happen here? Enzo and Cass were already in hot water too, so this didn't help,
03:56and it clearly had an impact. This program with Bryan was ended super fast. Big Cass was released
04:01on June 18th. That is mere weeks afterwards. It's such an odd way to go off script too,
04:06because that's the number one rule of professional wrestling. Protect your opponent,
04:10and they can only presume this guy had no idea the rest was coming. To be fair,
04:13Cass has been very open about his personal issues at the time, and that likely didn't help either.
04:18It is an amazing story, because my gosh, what a turnaround. If you can Google this today
04:22and find an interview with Big Cass, I tell you man, it'll remind you that anything is possible.
04:264. Daniel Bryan and AJ Styles The television program Talking Smack
04:30was essentially designed to go off the rails. Daniel Bryan had been forced into retirement by
04:35WWE, and because he didn't agree with this decision, if they were going to force him to
04:39host a recap show, he was just going to do whatever the flub he wanted. There's loads of these in
04:432016,
04:44including that famous interaction with The Miz where they get on each other's asses. We also got this.
04:49Bryan looked over at his friend AJ Styles, who was a guest, and suggested that maybe, just maybe,
04:54The Phenomenal One believed in the Flat Earth Conspiracy. You could see this in Styles' face
04:59instantly. He cannot believe it. AJ also tried to no-sell it, while also hinting that maybe he's just
05:04read some interesting stories, and that was just more fire for Daniel. He would not let it go. I mean,
05:10as a wind-up, it's pretty good television, because this felt real, and Daniel Bryan couldn't hide the
05:14smile on his face. Now, it's only fair to make it very clear that ever since then, Styles has made
05:18it clear that he does not think this, and he was just reading about it at the time. Still though,
05:22it was this
05:23kind of stuff that made Talking Smack compelling viewing, which is why when it got cancelled,
05:27fans were mad. Why would you do this? Given that we are now in a new era of WWE,
05:32I think we should bring it back. At the same time, I don't think that's going to happen,
05:36that we're not even allowed press conferences. Number three, Jeff Jarrett.
05:39Jeff Jarrett returning to the WWF in 1997 did feel pretty damn big. He had been to WCW and come
05:45back,
05:45so the company wanted to lean into all of it, and he got his big promo on the 20th October
05:49Raw,
05:49and he went after everybody who had scorned him. He mentioned Eric Bischoff, he mentioned Vince
05:54McMahon, and then he started talking about Stone Cold Steve Austin. That felt weird. What did Austin do?
05:59It soon turned out that Jarrett had taken umbrage with his 316 catchphrase, and that Steve was only
06:04bashing this out to try and put some money in his pocket. I assume the rattlesnake had no clue this
06:08was where Jeff was going to be going, because reportedly he was furious. Highlighted how easily
06:13that could start a backlash and even some merch sales. That's the last thing any wrestler wants,
06:17especially back then. That's where you made the majority of your money. It must have been
06:21received poorly by everybody as well, because Jeff never got his Austin feud. Steve just dropped him
06:25with a stunner one day to teach him a lesson, and that was that. There may be more to this
06:29as well,
06:29because it ties into a story that goes back years. When Austin was working for Jerry Jarrett,
06:34who was the father of Jeff during the territory days, Jeff saw Austin who was just staring at a
06:38paycheck when he shouted out, well it ain't gonna get any bigger the more you stare at it. I think
06:43old
06:43Stone Cold took that as an insult, and yeah, he never forgot like an elephant, so no program for
06:48you. Number two, Snoop Dogg at WrestleMania 39. Talk about things falling off the page super fast.
06:54It was kind of weird that Snoop Dogg and The Miz were guest hosts for WrestleMania 39 anyway,
06:58because what does that even mean? And also, Snoop had decided he was just gonna screw over his
07:02partner. On Saturday night, he had an impromptu match with Pat McAfee, and then we did it again on
07:06Sunday. Shane McMahon returned ring the bell. Now as I'm sure you're aware, Shano tore his quad almost
07:11instantly, and this was horrible, aside from the awkwardness, you never want somebody to get hurt,
07:15but we were also mid-match, so what the flub were we gonna do? Well, Snoop knew he was just
07:20gonna fill
07:21in. You really do have to give him props as well, because nobody would have known this actually wasn't
07:24the plan, aside from the injury. The rapper just smacked The Miz in the mouth before delivering the
07:29funniest people's elbow you've ever seen. One, two, three. All the credit to The Miz as well,
07:33who showed you once again why he's a first ballot hall of famer. That dude just knows what he's doing,
07:38but yeah, for somebody who was not a professional wrestler, for Snoop Dogg to step into this so
07:43effortlessly, I mean, it was incredible. It was a great save, fair play to that man,
07:48especially because he was probably high. Number one, The Rock and Kevin Nash.
07:52The feud between the WWE version of the NWO and The Rock was actually laid on night one,
07:57and no way out 2002, The Great One promised to stick various things up their asses, which led to
08:01some matches and of course more interactions. It also meant on a subsequent episode of Raw,
08:06Rocky told Kevin that he was a big daddy bitch, in reference to his runner's diesel.
08:11Apparently nobody had told Nash this was going to go down, but my gosh, he was livid,
08:15and he even escalated the claim up the management chain. He wanted punishment.
08:19His main gripe seemingly was because he was unprepared and because The Rock kept on talking,
08:23Kevin couldn't respond, so that made him look a little bit like a doofus. Eventually he did shut
08:27it out with Dwayne Johnson, and actually it just sounds like Nash was really annoyed how badly
08:31the NWO were being booked. That was true too. It was so strange. As ever, WWE was doing the exact
08:37opposite of what we'd done in WCW. Before long, it was clear this was just a list of complaints and
08:42how the flub are we going to fix these. And the answer was, well, we're not going to. You know
08:46the
08:46rest. Don't want to be that guy either. But Kevin Nash was definitely on the other side of some of
08:51these promos throughout his career. And when you can see how some of his opponents responded to him,
08:55they weren't prepared either. So what goes around comes around. That's basically all wrestling is.
09:01You know many of the times that wrestling went off script and you just had to watch it like a
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