Wrestling should always tease. You don't want to go too far and trick fans. But if there is a way to inject some fair excitement into proceedings, do it, keep that interest up.

A lot of time, that's exactly all this is too. Companies just want your eyebrow to raise while we're actually heading in a totally different direction.

It usually means if we want to return to at any point we can. So what were some of these

outliers that made us go what da flub? I am Simon Miller and here's the truly wild almost ran

W.WE matches. Number 10 Umaga versus Jackass. October 2006 Monday Night Raw. Umaga did

did indeed destroy a lot of the Jackass crew. He didn't do this for fun either.

WWE generally wanted to do this match and even had it penciled in for Somerslam the next year.

It eventually was a total mess because Steve O and Chris Pointeus found the whole thing so funny they laughed through the beat down.

You can guess how that was taken by other people.

The rest of the locker room and management was super mad. It meant this all got dropped until it was

the USA Network who asked for it to be brought back, which is when we hit reset. WW we could

reintroduce the war at the Great American Bash before doing the handicap match. Shane McMahon was

super involved too, so it had the backing,

but ultimately I think the damage was already done.

Neither side could meet in the middle,

and the whole concept was thrown out the window.

Who was the intercontinental champion come that summer

and worked a three-way with Mr. Kennedy,

Kennedy and Carlito instead?

I do not know what the jackass crew were doing. Something unhinged,

no doubt. Number nine, Steve Austin versus the coach. Thank goodness we did not do this.

Don't know what WW was thinking with their use of Steve Austin after he retired, but this wasn't it.

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