Besides the Deaths of Eddie, Benoit, & Owen Hart, What Are Your Top 5 Most Shocking Moments in WWE History?

LPSR gave a good list, most of which I agree with. But to not "steal" any of his list I will illustrate other "moments" (in no particular order): 1. "Black Saturday".

Vince Jr had been behind-the-scenes screwing local promotions out of their TV spots (by buying up local TV time, replacing local wrestling shows with slick, heavily-edited, pre-packaged WWF shows, and...forcing {because of the money he was willing to pay} local stations to show only WWF wrestling). He tried to do the same thing in Georgia Championship Wrestling in 1984 by buying up GCW's popular Saturday afternoon time slot on Ted Turner's WTBS cable network. This time it did not work.

WCW fans were OUTRAGED! They bombarded WTBS with phone calls, cards, and letters demanding that that WWF "cartoon" garbage be canceled and GCW put back where it belonged. Ratings plummeted.

WTBS quickly canceled the WWF and GCW was soon back on the air. This, of course, kept GCW in business, eventually leading into the merger with Mid-South, the birth of WCW, and eventually the Monday Night Wars. 2. March 26, 2001.

The final episode of WCW Monday Nitro. Nitro, the only TV wrestling show that had been able to, not only compete with the WWF, but actually beat it in the ratings, ended. WCW had self-destructed, AOL Time Warner pulled the plug, and WCW was dead.

The WWF was the only wrestling company left. Vince had succeeded in his mission to kill pro wrestling. All that was left was Vince's "sports entertainment" to run unopposed and with no alternatives available anywhere on North American TV.

Vince was now free to "brainwash" the North American public into believing his "sports entertainment" was superior to that silly "rasslin" stuff those other companies did before he wiped them out. The effects of that brainwashing are still very much alive 10 years later as no other wrestling company has been able to succeed on TV to any real degree because of that built-in bias from WWE fans. WWE fans are so brainwashed that they feel like "traitors" if they even consider watching anything but the WWE.

3. The NWA switches the NWA World Championship from Buddy Rogers to Lou Thesz in 1963. Rogers was a VERY popular wrestler for Vince McMahon Senior and his northeast NWA territory.

McMahon treated Rogers VERY well, to the point that Rogers rarely strayed out of McMahon's territory to defend his NWA World Title. Other NWA promoters protest; they want a piece of the pie, too. The NWA World Champ's appearances pretty much guaranteed sold-out shows and McMahon was getting most of them.

The NWA Board agrees McMahon IS unfairly monopolizing the NWA World Champ and decide to put the title on a wrestler who is willing to travel anywhere the NWA wants him to go. Rogers has no choice but to drop the title to Thesz. McMahon, in protest, withdraws his territory from the NWA (but not his seat on the NWA Board), creates the WWWF, and names Buddy Rogers as the first WWWF World Champ.

4. Verne Gagne withdraws HIS territory from the NWA a couple of years before that. Gagne felt he wasn't getting a "fair deal" in the NWA as far as obtaining the NWA World Title goes.

So he withdrew his territory from the NWA to establish the AWA with it's own set of World Championships. Not surprisingly, Gagne held the AWA World title for a combined total of nearly 13 years (out of it's 30-year existence). Because Gagne and McMahon withdrew their territories from the NWA, the NWA lost a lot of it's...power.

Instead of there being one huge NWA and several "outlaw" promotions, there were now THREE large and powerful wrestling "leagues" sharing the pie. It wasn't a hostile "war" as all three respected each other's boundaries and territories, but it damn sure leveled the playing field away from the monolithic NWA, leading into the next one on the list... 5. And, of course, Vince McMahon Junior's cold-blooded, ruthless, calculated "death march" across North America, killing promotions right and left, destroying the territories, putting thousands of people out of work, taking away OUR choices for wrestling entertainment, and forcing his "sports entertainment" upon the public, leaving us with the WWF or nothing.

Today's fans really don't understand the magnitude of that, having known nothing but the WWE their entire lives. Imagine, for example, your favorite sitcom, one you look forward to all week. Now imagine the creator of that sitcom systematically getting every other sitcom on TV canceled and removed, to be replaced by various "highlight reels" of that one sitcom, and they are everywhere.

1. Hogan Bodyslamming Andre 2. Stone Cold wins King of the Ring 3.

The MSG incident with HBK, HHH, Diesel, and Scott Hall 4. Montreal Screwjob 5. Roddy Piper attacks Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka on Piper's Pit.

I cant really gove you an answer,but what I can give you is a way to a solution, that is you have to find the anglde that you relate to or peaks your interest. A good paper is one that people get drawn into because it reaches them ln some way.As for me WW11 to me, I think of the holocaust and the effect it had on the survivors, their families and those who stood by and did nothing until it was too late.