Backstage Fights

Here's the list of what we have so far. Any contributions you make are greatly appreciated. Please contact us with any information you have on any fight not yet listed here.

Disclaimer: Take these stories with a grain of salt. Most of these are hearsay, and their veracity cannot always be confirmed. We are certain some stories here are either untrue or greatly exaggerated. Do not trust any of them as true. Nonetheless, backstage fights do happen, and there is at least some degree of truth to most of the stories here. Plus, they’re fun to read.

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Sandman vs. Shane Douglas vs. Bill Alfonso

It was the Triple Threat vs Sandman and 2 others, and Sandman had told the wrestlers earlier not to touch his cane when he dropped it for a spot later. Anyways during the spot where Sandman gets knocked out of the ring and the cane is in the middle of the ring, Shane picks up the cane, shakes his head in disgust and drops it right back to the same spot. Sandman was livid and after the match goes up to Shane in the locker room and gets right in his face and says, "Shane, if you ever touch my fucking cane again, I'm gonna beat the hell out of you." He then goes down the hall into another room and sits down next to Bill Alfonso. Sandman went on to say that even if Shane had picked up the cane and used it, he wouldn't have been mad, but to just stare at it pissed him off. So back to the story, Sandman is next to "Fonzie," and they hear Shane coming down the hall, Sandman is still seated and Shane gets closer cursing, when Bill Alfonso tackles Shane and starts hitting him. It gets broken up shortly after. (thanks to Dazraven)

Big Show vs. Ballz Mahoney

Big Show was still training to be a wrestler at Larry Sharpe's Monster Factory, where Ballz was helping to train people. Giant showed up with some of his buddies and they stood around, while Giant was working some weights. Ballz came up to his buddies and asked them to leave because they were training. The men said, "Oh, well we're with Paul Wight and he said we could stay." Wrong thing to say to Ballz, who has a horrible temper and even told Vince McMahon to, "Go fuck himself" one time. Ballz got right in their faces and told them to get the hell out. Giant walked over and asked what was going on. They told him and he tried to calm the situation, but Ballz was pissed and got in Giant's face and challenged him. He told the Giant, "Sure you're 7ft tall, and 500 pounds, and you could probably kick my ass, but what happens if I kick your ass!" Giant simply sighed and took his friends and left. Ballz later admitted he was glad it went down that way, because Giant would have killed him. (thanks to Dazraven)

Frank Gotch vs. George Hackenschmidt

For wrestling historians, this is one of the most famous matches in pro wrestling history. Sometime in 1911, Gotch had beaten Hackenschmidt three years earlier and was universally recognized as the world heavyweight champion and this was the first ever rematch of the century. Weeks before the match took place, a sparring partner of Hackenschmidt's by the name of Ad Santel had done some damage to his partner's knee in training. It later turned out that Santel was paid $5000 by the Gotch camp to do a number on it. A record breaking crowd was expected for the show so the promoters kept the injury quiet from the media (who actually cared about wrestling back then). Gotch obviously knew about the injury told Hackenschmidt, who wanted to pull out, that he would carry him to a credible match and give him one fall in the best-of-three falls. Once the match started though, Gotch double-crossed him and started to shoot quickly won two straight falls. (thanks to Rob Harvey)

Ed Don George vs. Strangler Lewis

Promoter Billy Sandow (who basically worked with Lewis) worked closely with another promoter called Paul Bowser were making big bucks with a former football player called Gus Sonnenberg as the world champion. Sonnenberg, who supposedly couldn't wrestle a lick, was beaten up in the street by a middleweight wrestler in a set up organized by rival promoters. At this time, the heavyweight champion had to be looked as being the toughest man in the world because people still thought wrestling was real so Bowser then had Sonnenberg drop the world title to George, who was a great Olympic wrestler, without consulting Sandow or Lewis (who was meant to be next in line for the world title). George was then later booked in a match with Lewis where he was meant to win. However, it didn't quite go down like that because while they were in the ring, Lewis told George he was taking the belt and they could either do things the easy way (George doing the job) or the hard way (Lewis beating the living piss out of him and taking the belt). He took the easy way. (thanks to Rob Harvey)

Strangler Lewis vs. Henri DeGlane

Three weeks after the Lewis vs. George match, Paul Bowser booked Lewis to defend the title in Montreal (sound familiar?) against the 1924 Olympic gold medalist. Lewis went into the ring knowing he was going to win the match by 2 falls to 1. Back in these days, wrestlers would return to the dressing rooms after each fall. After the second fall, DeGlane bit himself in the arm until he drew blood and then came out for the final fall with the arm covered. Within seconds of the third fall starting, DeGlane starting screaming like he'd been shot. Lewis then backed off not knowing what happened but the referee then saw the bite marks on DeGlane's arm and then DQ'd Lewis and awarded the belt to DeGlane. Lewis then went backstage to beat the shit out of Bowser but he had six bodyguards armed with baseball bats waiting for him. (thanks to Rob Harvey)

Wendi Richter vs. Spider Lady

November 25, 1985 at Madison Square Garden. Minutes before going to the ring to defend the WWF women’s title, Richter was given a contract by Vince McMahon which included a clause to sign away all her merchandise rights. Richter said she wanted to look at the contract after her match. McMahon then demanded she sign the contract but Richter stuck to her guns and said she would look at it after the match. However, Spider Lady wasn't the same lady who had played the character previously. It was Fabulous Moolah. During the match, Moolah rolled up an unsuspecting Richter and held her tight for the pin. Richter never worked for the WWF again. Moolah claims that she wasn't aware of the double-cross and she didn't expect the referee to count the three. Does that sound familiar? (thanks to Rob Harvey)

Vince McMahon vs. Kevin Wacholz

Some of you older fans may remember Kevin Wacholz as Nailz, the former convict, in the WWF back in 1992. Story goes that Wacholz, who was in line for a program with the Ultimate Warrior before he left the company, was pissed at Vince McMahon because of his payoff from SummerSlam ‘92. Wacholz confronted McMahon about the payoff and reportedly McMahon blew it off which angered Wacholz more so he attacked McMahon and choked him until he was turning blue. Wacholz was fired because of that incident and aside from one pay-per-view appearance in WCW against Sting, he hasn't worked in the big time since. To add another chapter to this story, later at the Vince McMahon steroid trial, Wacholz gave evidence against Vince McMahon but he came off so badly on the stand (including continuously contradicting himself) that word is that his evidence probably was what kept Vince from doing time. At one point on the witness stand, Wacholz was asked if he hated McMahon, to which he replied “Yes.” (thanks to Rob Harvey)

Rick Steiner vs. Corporal Cajun/Big Vito/Konnan

On three straight Nitro's prior the to sale of the WCW to WWE, Rick Steiner took blatant liberties with all three men during singles match. Steiner, who has a reputation for being a tough guy, had no clear reason to shoot on these three men. For the record, all three of his opponents on these nights stayed professional and tried to work their parts in the match. Funny how Konnan always acts like a tough guy street thug, yet he let Steiner have his way with him. I wonder why. Rumor has it that prior to the news that WWE had bought the company, many people backstage were planning on running in during a Steiner match on the final Nitro to beat him down live on the show. Whether it would have happened or not we will ever know. (thanks to Rob Harvey)

New Jack vs. Brian Pillman

On June 1, 1996, Brian Pillman returned to the ECW Arena just week after breaking his foot in a Humvee accident. Pillman cut a promo in the ring where he made a reference to the NWA (the rap group, not the wrestling organization). To this day nobody expect New Jack is 100% on what he thought but it's believed that New Jack either misheard the comments or was misinformed by someone backstage but he went nuts backstage anyway talking about the infamous N-word. When Pillman came backstage, in his wheelchair mind you, both men got into a very heated confrontation where many believe New Jack would attack the crippled Pillman. To his credit, Pillman never backed down to anything. New Jack threatened to leave the company over the incident and Pillman never went back to work for ECW ever again. Days later, Pillman signed the first ever guaranteed contract issued by the World Wrestling Federation. (thanks to Rob Harvey)

Shinya Hashimoto vs. Naoya Ogawa

I'm actually not 100% certain that this was a shoot or not but I'll write it up anyway. Over 62,000 fans turned up for New Japan's annual January 4 show in 1999 to see New Japan superstar Shinya Hashimoto take on the 3 time judo world champion and 1996 Olympic silver medalist Naoya Ogawa in the Tokyo Dome. Everything in the match seemed to be going well with both men were wrestling against the ropes. Suddenly, Ogawa took Hashimoto down to the mat where he landed a barrage of mounted punches. Hashimoto, with his face busted up, cut, bruised and swelled, rolled out of the ring where he lay beaten while Ogawa walked around the ring with his arms raised in victory. The match was a no-contest and Ogawa remains one of the company's biggest stars. (thanks to Rob Harvey)

Andre the Giant vs. Ultimate Warrior

During their series of matches in 1990, they had a spot set up where warrior would charge Andre w/ a clothesline knocking the Giant back into the ropes to be tied up. Problem was, Warrior would charge at Andre going at full speed. Now it didn't hurt Andre, but pissed him off royally. When he was hit by the clothesline, Heenan would hear Andre grunt. This went on for a while, match after match, same thing. Warrior at full speed and Andre grunting. Finally Andre had enough. The spot came up and Warrior charged full speed at Andre, but the Giant simply held up his fist which connected and Warrior was knocked senseless. Next match, spot comes up, Warrior goes for the clothesline and basically goes in slow motion and connects with the clothesline. Andre gets tied up in the ropes and leans over to Bobby and says "He's learning." (thanks to Dazraven)

Curt Hennig vs. Brock Lesnar

On the "Plane flight from Hell" in 2002 on a European tour, Curt was loaded up on booze and challenged Brock to take him down. Brock, new to the industry, didn't know what to make of it. Heyman reportedly told him if he doesn't do anything about it now, he'll never live it down. So Brock did take him down, and nearly burst a hole through the plane in the process. Hennig lost his job over his behavior on this flight. (thanks to Matt Phillips and Steve Vendeland)

Bill Watts vs. Scott Steiner

In the early 90's, Bill Watts and Scott Steiner had been hating each other backstage. I believe Steiner began requesting title shots, and Bill Watts told him that he could have the TV title (which Steiner eventually would win). Scott apparently went ballistic on Watts, and a number of superstars had to pull him off. (thanks to Steve Vendeland)

Scott Steiner vs. DDP, Part 2

I think that Scott Steiner and DDP had another fight a week before Superbrawl 2001. This was a different fight, but DDP got his ass kicked, and Kevin Nash left with him afterwards, thus changing the format of the whole show. I remember Steiner said some trash about DDP and his wife in the ring. Backstage, the two got into a fight where DDP jumped Steiner, got beat up, and a bunch of wrestlers had to pull them apart. To make up for some time lost, Mike Sanders and the Natural Born Thrillers went to the ring and improv’d for a little bit on the stick. I'm not 100% sure when this was, but it must have been before early 2001/late 2000. (thanks to Steve Vendeland)

Kevin Nash vs. Jean Pierre Lafitte

Apparently Pierre didn't want to job when the WWF was touring Quebec in 1995. There may have been a spot in which Jean Pierre went for this cannonball finisher and nailed Nash very hard and legit. Rumor has it Nash didn't sell it whatsoever, got up, potatoed Jean Pierre a few times and then gave him the jackknife for the pin. I think Kevin Nash referenced this incident in late 2000 at a house show. (thanks to Steve Vendeland, Tony Notsay, & Martin Filion)

Bill Goldberg vs. Evan Karagias

Before the 9/5/00 Nitro, Goldberg was backstage with Kevin Nash when Karagias walked up to shake Goldberg's hand. Bill was slow to acknowledge Karagias and apparently Evan took offense to it and said something to Goldberg. So, Bill grabbed him by the throat and pinned him on the floor, choking him out. Goldberg later tried to apologize but Evan refused, which made Goldberg angry again but nothing came of it. This was during the time period that Goldberg was going through major heat with Russo and obviously couldn't control his temper throughout the duration. On a side note, 3 Count was told by management they would go over Kronik to make up for the incident, but Kronik, when they heard this, again refused to sell for the smaller guys. (thanks to Troy Anthony)

Steve Austin vs. Raven

Steve Austin once exchanged heated words in a locker room with Raven. Debra was cutting a promo near the showers backstage, when Raven came out wearing nothing but a towel. Austin confronted him, grabbing Raven and verbally laying into him, feeling that Raven was showing off in front of his wife. Raven claimed he didn't know Debra was there. The situation was quelled quickly, but wrestlers have said Austin was always over-protective of Debra. Austin later apologized. (thanks to Troy Anthony)

Sabu vs. a fan

I also recall an incident when Sabu beat up some fan for pulling off his turban while Sabu was walking to the ring. This happened in Japan, I have it on tape somewhere. Anyway, after the fan pulled off the turban, Sabu hopped the railing, chased him down, and knocked him out with a few punches and some wicked knees to the face. Afterwards Sabu continued to the ring and proceeded to wrestle Eddie Guerrero like nothing ever happened. (thanks to Troy Anthony)

Mike Awesome vs. a fan

At Halloween Havoc 2000, Mike Awesome knocked a fan out with one punch during a crowd tour with Vampiro. The fan tried to jump in and give Awesome some clubs to the back when Awesome laid him out. (thanks to Troy Anthony)

Bill Johnson vs. Tony Galento

State police arrested Two-Ton Tony Galento, former heavyweight boxer, on an assault-and-battery charge. The charge was filed by Bill Johnson, a wrestling promoter in nearby McKeesport. Johnson said the Galento knocked out four of his teeth after a wrestling show in an altercation over a split of the proceeds. Johnson later dropped the charges when Galento agreed to pay him $250 for hospital bills. The 41-year-old Orange, NJ saloon keeper appeared on a wrestling card at McKeesport. (thanks to Bob and Associated Press)

Chris Jericho vs. Bill Goldberg

Yet another Raw incident, this time from 2003. Goldberg mouthed off to Nash about Jericho, stemming from their real-life feud in WCW years back. Word got to Jericho what Goldberg said, and he confronted him about it. Seconds later, they were rolling around on the ground (violently, not lovingly, you jokesters). Jericho reportedly had him in a front face lock. It was broken up before any punches really landed. Jericho was quite the hero for this, with Hurricane reportedly being his biggest mark. Don't these guys know their fights will be broken up right away? Both guys ended up shaking hands when it was over. (thanks to Scott Ryan Czasak, Ronnie Pruitt, Geoffrey Joseph, & many others)

Ric Flair vs. Richard Fullerton

Ric said hello to Richard and Richard said Flair was too old to be wrestling, and that his wrestling has always stunk. So Flair attacked him and the two got in to a major punch up for about 3 minutes, until others broke it up. It was believed that Flair won the fight (thanks to Michael Gawith)

Kevin Nash & Scott Hall vs. drunk kids

Kevin Nash, Scott Hall, and Syxx (Sean Waltman) were guests on stage as a part of MTV's annual spring break coverage. The three were there to punish losers of a talent contest I think and to build up the annual Panama City Nitro that Monday. Anyway a drunk guy in the crowd was causing trouble and threw something at the stage. The NWO guys asked security to get a grip on the rowdy crowd, but were blown off. When the guy threw something else the NWO guys astonished their MTV hosts by leaping off the stage, grabbing the guy themselves, and turning him over to security. They then threatened to walk out if security didn't get the crowd under better control. MTV usually shows the footage annually as a "wildest ever moment" while building up spring break coverage. (thanks to Tamalie, wrestlingclassics.com, & the Meatball)

Great Sasuke vs. Dirtbike Kid

It was in July of 1999, in the Michinoku Pro promotion. They were having a "Mask Tournament" where all the competitors were, well, wearing masks. One of the first matches was all-time-asshole (and owner of M-Pro) Great Sasuke vs. the Dirtbike Kid. The match starts out normally, and a minute or so in Dirtbike Kid is hitting all the offense. After taking a few moves, Sasuke starts to become a little lethargic, not no-selling stuff, but kind of half-assing it. Anyway, something Dirtbike did must have pissed him off or maybe he just wanted a sandwich or something, because about 2 minutes in he stops taking offense and starts kicking the hell out of Dirtbike in the legs and in the torso. I've read some reports that Sasuke may have cracked the dude's ribs. Then after kicking the snot out of him for a bit, he picks the Kid up and puts him in a standing choke-hold. Dirtbike Kid starts flailing around like crazy and the ref calls for the bell. Then Sasuke kind of stands around, stares at the kid for a minute, and then heads straight for the back. (thanks to Ed Reese)

William Regal vs. Bill Goldberg

Regal had the moment with Goldberg in ’98 where he did a little unscheduled mat wrestling. I think the only reason why this is considered is that Goldberg didn't know what was going on. Regal could lead a dead man through a believable sequence, and I believe that is what he was trying to do. But Goldberg flopped around and ended up looking like an idiot. I remember watching this live on Nitro, and didn't know about it, but it sure looked like something was wrong. (thanks to Chris & codytheimpaler.com)

William Regal vs. The Giant (Big Show)

Regal came to near blows with Paul Wight. Wight was complaining about selling for Rey Misterio Jr, and Regal got in his face and told him he was a fat slob, and that the only difference between Wight and Ron Reis was a push (ouch, that hurts). They were broken up quickly after that. (thanks to Chris)

Nobuhiko Takada vs. Trevor Berbick

Berbick (ex-WBC Heavyweight Boxing Champion?) was brought into UWF-I to have a worked match with Takada, but Takada double crossed him in the ring and started kicking him in the knee. Berbick protested to the ref about these being illegal blows (below the belt), but the ref said go on and fight. Berbick tried to fight back, but Takada's leg kicks and footwork were such that the Bozer couldn't get position to throw, let alone land, a punch. He backed into the corner, Takada kicked him some more, and Berbick left the ring and ran away. (thanks to Alex Boothroyd)

Torrie Wilson vs. Chyna & Trish & Debra

According to numerous reports during the Alliance-era, Torrie Wilson was not very welcome by three WWE Divas opon her hiring. Apparentally Chyna was caught backstage mocking Ms. Wilson by Torrie herself. Finally Debra got the impression that Torrie had the hots for Stone Cold and was being a little too nice to the then-WWF Champion. Looking down the score card.... Trish and Torrie have reportedly patched up their difference while Chyna and Debra were both eventually released/left. (thanks to Lita Maivia)

Tatsumi Fujinami vs. Kevin Nash

Nash had been talking smack backstage during his first tour of New Japan and supposedly made some derogatory comments to Fujinami. Fujinami, taking exception to it, walked over and hit Nash (who was seated at the time) with a palm strike (open hand slap). Nash didn't say anything to Fujinami the rest of the tour. (thanks to Nick)

Jim Duggan vs. Balls Mahoney

Balls Mahoney tells a story on his shoot tape about Hacksaw Jim Duggan. At the time Balls is still doing the fire breathing gimmick. He was working all the tops faces that came in to work shows. Before the match they go over some stuff they want to do in the match, including the fire gimmick, which Duggan will duck. So they got the match going and Duggan screws up the first two planned spots. So Balls decides to just finish it and get over it and Duggan agrees. As they are going for the finish, Balls get the fluid in his mouth, lights the lighter, gets ready to blow..... Duggan just knocks the lighter out of his hand. Mahoney ends up just spitting fluid. No fire. Balls stops. Flips Duggan off in the ring. Drops and rolls out of the ring and goes to the back. Mahoney gets in the back and is ready to kill. Some of the guys lock him in an office. At the time Mahoney was working in Puerto Rico and carried a knife at all times. He was ready to come out swinging. Someone got to Duggan who was blaming Mahoney for everything going wrong and told him if he didn't leave it would be bad for his health. By the time Mahoney got out of the office, Duggan got his stuff and had left. (thanks to WJD and wrestlingclassics.com)

Eddy Guerrero vs. Charlie Haas

Eddie Guerrero aggravated an injury while in a tag match in ‘03 and Charlie unknowing kept working that area, which lead to a confrontation after the match in which Guerrero was reported to have thrown the first punch and Haas fought back and it was soon broken up. (thanks to Nathan)

Rene Dupree vs. Bob Holly

During a house show hardcore tag match in ’04, Holly gave some stiff shots to Dupree with a chair and ended up in confrontation. Dupree got a parking ticket using Holly's rental car in a different state and then made Holly fly out to deal with it. Holly took it out on Dupree in the ring. Dupree bolted out of the ring and there was more that took place backstage. Holly was fined, but should've been fired. Thanks to Dupree's lack of popularity, Holly got the sentiment and kept his job. (thanks to Dave "The Beast" McGuckiin)

Ric Flair vs. Mick Foley

On Raw in ‘04, it was reported that Ric Flair and Mick Foley had a bit of a punch up backstage. Flair, who made some pretty nasty remarks about Foley in his autobiography and called him a "stuntman," offered a handshake to Foley when he arrived. Foley declined and made a snide remark about Flair's book. Flair took exception to this and walloped Foley. Officials intervened before it escalated. Some believe this may have been a work, possibly to begin the internet speculation before a WrestleMania 21 match, but nothing ever came of it. (thanks to Dave "The Beast" McGuckin)

The Sandman vs. Stevie Shaker 'Babymaker'

Back in December '03, Sandman and Perry Saturn traveled to Ireland to wrestle for WIN in Dublin. They were the only 'names' on the card so thought they could take it easy and still steal the show. However, a hardcore match between Stevie Shaker and Dunkan Disorderly tore the house down and killed the crowd for the rest of the show. Apparently when the 'Babymaker' went backstage after his match, Perry ignored him and Sandman made a sarcastic comment, obviously pissed at the 2 'card fillers' stealing their thunder. Stevie just walked on by and went to the bar to watch the rest of the show. Back at the hotel all the guys were in the bar and Sandman had a few drinks and livened up enough for Stevie and Dunkan to invite him to Belfast to party the next day. While out in a pub in Belfast, Sandman got totally wasted and was a mess. Afterwards, when they were trying to get a taxi Sandman bumped into Stevie and apparently told him he was a sh*t worker and would never draw outside of Ireland. Stevie punched him and knocked him out cold before casually going to get a subway. When Sandman came round he apologized and the two made up. (thanks to Arthur)

Chavo Guerrero vs. Big Show

After a SmackDown taping in ‘04, Chavo started yelling at Show and started a fight with him. Show pie-faced him to try to diffuse the situation. Chavo went after him again and Show shoved him hard into a group of wrestlers, and the noise from the commotion caused everyone to step in and break it up. What in the Hell was Chavo thinking? (thanks to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter)

Too Cold Scorpio vs. Road Warrior Hawk

Scorpio talks about this on his ROH shoot interview. He and Hawk were part of the WCW event called Kollision in Korea, held in Pyongyang, North Korea. Scorpio and the rest of the guys were on the bus, and Hawk comes on the bus and makes a comment about how Ric Flair was taking a limo instead. Scorpio shouted out, "F*ck that p*ssy, let him ride by himself!" Hawk said "What did you say?" Scorpio repeated himself. Hawk then used the dreaded N word, and it was on. They were wrestling on the floor and Hawk was swinging, but never connected, even when people were holding Scorpio down. Once they got up, Scorpio threw a thrust kick and connected, but it was broken up. Over the next few days, they traded glances and promised to beat each other senseless once they got back to Tokyo. Scorpio dropped chopsticks at dinner on purpose, picked them up, and stuffed them in his coat pocket. Back in the hotel room, he sharpened them up, just in case Hawk tried something. They met again face to face, said they'd save it for Tokyo, and then Hawk turned his back. When he turned back around, he punched Scorpio out of nowhere. Scorpio thought, "Is that all you got? My mother hits harder than that!" Cooler heads prevailed, though, and they worked out their differences before leaving North Korea. The Steiners and Scott Norton were on Scorpio's side, but Benoit was friends with both and tried to soothe things over.

Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels

Nothing physical. Austin, McMahon, Undertaker and Michaels were in a meeting with other officials planning the WWE's strategy going forward. Apparently, leading up to WMXIV, the idea was for HBK to drop the strap to Austin, which HBK initially rejected. At this point Undertaker began to tape his fists methodically. The Deadman told HBK that it was advisable that he, HBK, change his mind about doing the job by the time that he, Undertaker, finished taping his fists or he will MAKE HBK change his mind the hard way. Why would Michaels refuse to job anyway, since his back by that point was in tremendous pain. (thanks to Geoffrey Joseph)

4 Horsemen vs. random fans

Some years back, I would say circa 1987, the 4 Horsemen were at a house show and some fans, who were obviously marks for the babyfaces, thought it wise to jump into the ring to save Barry Windham from the usual Horsemen beatdown. Arn and Tully delivered what had to be some of the wickedest knee drops I have ever seen on the idiots when they entered the ring. (thanks to Geoffrey Joseph)

Randy Savage vs. random fans

I once saw Randy Savage deliver vicious right hand punches to a couple of WCW fans who were drunk enough to interfere in a steel cage match. (thanks to Geoffrey Joseph)

CM Punk vs. Teddy Hart

The heat started on an ROH show which Hart no selling and showing off to the crowd. He hit an unplanned spot on Special K from top of the cage. This led Carnage Crew to beat up Hart legit, hoping he'd sell. After the team left, Hart continue to show off more, doing moonsaults into the standing position. He was fired and his bags got tossed outside, and thus began the war of words between him and Punk. Punk tore into him for being disrespectful while Hart goes off claiming Punk was on drugs and drinking despite being straight-edge. They still manage to stay away from each other until both were working for TNA. It was at a restaurant (ironically called White Trash Cafe) and both bump into each other and escalated into a verbal and physical fight which Sabu broke up. Hart was unable to wrestle in the America's X Cup, and Punk was eventually released. Shame too, because both Punk and Hart are very good workers. Hart was also released later while his Canadian teammate Petey Williams went on to win the X Division title. (thanks to Tim and Raymond Wong)