10 Most Infamous WWE Ruthless Aggression Era Controversies

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[@stingrey1571]

All these angles can be summed up in one word, VINCE!!!

[@Deathcatclub]

Even Benoit? 😂

[@rcdune7132]

And they were all either great or hilarious!💯😂... ( Except for the Benoit stuff for obvious reasons)

[@jp3813]

@@Deathcatclub Keyword: "angles".

[@jp3813]

@@rcdune7132 The Eddie Guerrero exploitation?

[@user-kn2dz4jp6b]

As a Mexican-American that grew up in Texas, seeing the JBL character do his thing was a little weird. But I was in my mid 20's when it happened. I understood what the character was doing and realized it was a character. Never took it personal.

[@markm9282]

I think JR is going to have the last laugh on Dr Heiney joke...

[@dtanobo]

It's also insane and hilariously on brand of the WWE that Muhammad Hassan was played by an Italian guy lmao

[@azenar1894]

Simon blessing us with 2 episodes today let's goo

[@jcast23]

Where exactly was JBL going to deport Eddie to? Back to El Paso, Texas? 🤔

[@BreakerX42]

Someone NEEDS to get Vince on an interview to ask why he liked half this stuff

[@jp3813]

Ask Janel Grant instead.

[@richardtherichard26]

Before I even watch the rest of the video Katie Vick @ 9 is WILD 😂😂😂

[@tp2005]

OMG same! I literally thought, "Was this era even worse than I remember? How tf is this only at #9?!" 🤣

[@ashtonkusher433]

Billy and Chuck crawled so Pretty Deadly can walk

[@tompatchak8706]

They were super duper awesome too!!

[@justin_your_cousin9273]

The Rockers gave birth to both

[@GLJosh]

I tried to explain the Katie Vick storyline to my wife...it didn't go well. Just remember Vince green lit and probably giggled the whole time.

[@TivaWap1738]

as a wife of a non wrestling fan who’s trying to teach about wrestling, i’m praying she never stumbles upon Katie Vick or Snitsky🤦🏾‍♀️🤣

[@rcdune7132]

Katie Vick was hilarious 😂

[@USCTrojan12]

We all cry about Booker/HHH for eternity but no mention ever of Rodney Mack’s White Boi Challenge?? 😂😂😂

[@jp3813]

Never compare Booker T & Triple H to Rodney Mack.

[@USCTrojan12]

@@jp3813Good point. The Mack stuff was way worse. That angle was outright racism whereas HHH/Booker was only some simple implied racism.

[@EQuanKeith21]

Both were racist that triple thing was worse because he is well known

[@i.am.king89]

Booker T should've won. The end!

[@JoveJoved]

Nope. Based Triple H. Can you dig that, sucka?

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Jinder Mahal and JBL both start with J and end in L 😂

[@zacharycunningham1789]

Indeed, Billy and Chuck was a travesty. Can we also celebrate Billy Gunn for joining AEW and teaming with the Acclaimed, a beautiful way to make amends to the fans he hurt back in the RA era! Thank you, Billy!

[@BlackedURsister]

i love this list,, we need more goofy wrestling for life

[@JoveJoved]

Except for the deaths of course, most of this list was gold. Sad that WokeCuckture gets so triggered.

[@Radi0Wires]

Simon is such a gifted storyteller, and a really level-headed fan of the industry as a whole. The man simply doesn’t miss.

[@jermainemartinez8282]

The Katie Vick angle needs to be on Dark Side of the Ring.

[@jamalvargas6146]

Chris Benoit Is Number 1 That's a Given For sure killed the era entirely

[@kickflipdemon]

yet he is number 2

[@chrisguardiano6143]

One infamous Ruthless Aggression storyline that wasn't on the list that I remember well is everything with Dawn Marie, Torrie Wilson & Al Wilson especially the wedding of Al & Dawn Marie on Smackdown & the honeymoon footage on the following episode. Another infamous storyline that I remember from the RA era is everything with Eugene in which WWE took advantage of nearly every stereotype that exists about people with intellectual disabilities. How both of these storylines made TV I will never know.

[@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu]

Billy Gunn did say that but y'all don't mention what he said right after that.

[@justin_your_cousin9273]

The Ruthless Aggression was basically Attitude but with WCW and ECW mixed in

[@SuburbanProperty]

I genuinely can’t imagine wanting a murderer to be commended as a “hall of farmer”. His entire legacy is tarnished because of his actions and just for that, he doesn’t deserve it.

[@DjHandicap]

Big show tonging Vickie after her husband just died every week was what finally drove me away from wrestling for over 10 years.

[@cypher515]

CM Punk said it best about Katie Vick: "Go look it up. It will drive you to drink -- and then I can save you!"

[@impolitesociety6998]

Zack Gowen prosthetic leg has a better chance of making into the HoF than Benoit.

[@mcj88]

I've always felt that the Attitude Era was insanely overrated, and most of these Ruthless Aggression controversies actually relate to why: to me the Attitude Era was cringeworthy storylines being carried by transcendent talent, and the Ruthless Aggression era showed how things would have gone without that talent at the top: their ratings and reputation _plummeted._

[@unholyperiodza5442]

You forgot Brock Lesnar Suing WWE after leaving the company in 2004

[@Dr_1212]

Good list

[@MarioPikachu626]

1:38 the definitive Brilliant Diamond and Shining Pearl experience

[@josedealba6533]

I’m Mexican and the JBL storyline was hilarious 😭😭

[@archangel2015]

No not Simon miller again wow my Sunday video viewing a really mixed bag.

[@punkvspod]

The fact that Katie vic was #9 on the top 10, should scare you.

[@geeshep4836]

Lita's Storylines With Both Kane And Edge.

[@Kiddism101]

Sensitive Simon at it again

[@crunch1586]

People like Simon is why we have boring cody finish your story stories in wwe smh

[@zanethind]

Even Thunderosa said that she felt disrespected watching Brock Lesnar making fun of Latin American people on Smackdown

[@Mewtwo976]

Triple H was not being racist to Booker T. He was just trying to get heat. Ric Flair was being himself.

[@jenniferkovalick2959]

I seriously think Vince hated JR because he is so beloved by wrestling fans, and he's hated by everyone.

[@craigcarlock8910]

The Katie vick storyline was indefensible too gross to explain made me hate wrestling and tv 🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

[@TitusRedwind]

The ruthless aggression era was just the Attitude Era but with less of the viewership and none of the competition from WCW. Although I admit that the in ring quality drastically increased

[@raidenblizzygaming9702]

Mohammed Hassan was a great character imo

[@zacharycunningham1789]

You point out all of those that died of drug overdoses and CTE related tragedies, but you don’t mention all of those from this era who were so shamed out of the business that they committed suicide. (That list may be even bigger.) That was the environment of pro-wrestling at this point. Let’s not gloss over those that suffered and took that way out.

[@kickflipdemon]

as much as the mysterios benefited off eddies name i just wish somebody (besides chavo) to think of his children

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

The katie vic story was so disturbing

[@ClassicManTV]

The Mohammed Hassan character was a big missed opportunity and a fairly big what if for the WWE. The man was great on the Mic and was a decent wrestler with the limited experience he had.

[@tompatchak8706]

My friends and I talk about the #1 all the time. Like for a while there professional wrestlers were dying at an alarming rate. Something like 3 every month for 5 years. Crazy!

[@jamiewilshaw3595]

😂😂 Katie Vic 🙈loved it 😂

[@nosickl]

I once saw the sex in the coffin segment, the moment Triple Kane said "I just f*cked your brains out" I read a comment saying "Still a better love story than Twilight" and I f*cking lost it 😂

[@BobbyCrosthwaite]

Simon your covering of this topic was fantastic

[@lukehenderson436]

I could be wrong, but didn’t Billy and Chuck go on to say that they knew the whole “pretending to be gay” story was wrong, but they felt that they had to do it to get screen time? Which actually made it an interesting story (although still exploitative).

[@marvelsProtege]

11:42 but Undertaker wants the good old days back

[@nicksoapdish157]

Dishonorable mention. The storyline in 2005 with Kurt Angle, Booker T, and his wife Sharmel.

[@lb2.0.45]

I will never understand why Bruce Prichard always has to defend all of Vince's stupid decisions.

[@wriththing9489]

Remember when HHH went to Orton's house?

[@My19812011]

Vince Mc-fucking-Mahon is all you can say

[@PrincessofPower84]

I never knew J.R.'s wife cried at that Dr. Heiney storyline. 😢 God, Vince is such a POS.

[@LorcanaControl]

OMG the nurse is ashley massaro. So creepy now

[@tompatchak8706]

Super duper creepy

[@voidbby5407]

IF BENOIT CANT GO IN THE HALL OF FAME TAKE OUT SNUKA

[@showthemnomercy]

I wish hassan came back and fought jinder😂

[@waxmandr]

Why, cause he's brown?

[@austindeanblade8070]

You know what's hilarious though is Billy Gunn now manages and tags with a gay guy... full circle moment?

[@killingragethrowback]

Well about Billy and Chuck... at least we got the Golden Lovers now. As for Jim Ross, it might be his Southern roots. Vince hates Southerners, because he was one and he was abused. So I think he low key hates any Southerners who are intelligent or charming or successful because it reminds him of his stepfather and their neighbors.

[@F0XXDweller]

"IT shouldn't and will never happen." Welp, somebody get Snuka out of there. And if we can be a little bit more empathic, get Stone Cold out of there too since the only person he was actually beating up was Debra. If Benoit shouldn't be there because of that tragedy, fine. But let's not put the Hall of Fame on some moral pedestal.

[@therockazoid1723]

Billy and Chuck were amazing performers. Sad they got such lame roles in the companies.

[@ddjsoyenby]

yeah a lot of these were unneccesary.

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

They ars still doing it with reys,son dominic and rea ripley

[@ferncruz4250]

As a Hispanic I can tell you no one cared

[@stephenthedude4383]

And back stage Vince is just laughing while shitting on people while yelling "THATS GOOD SHIT"

[@BushHead90]

The image you used when mentioning Arab Americans at 3:10 is an image of Sikh people. Sikh people are not Arab and are from the punjab region of northern India.

[@z216ghost]

Eddie Guerrero was the most offensive and racist gimmick ever

[@benjaminparkinson5255]

Wrestlers still die young bray .and brodie lee

[@joshmans7307]

True. But it's significantly more rare these days. Those two were both sort of victims of the right (or more accurately, the wrong) medical circumstances all coming together.

[@andrewblanchard2398]

I'm glad I didn't see the 2001 to 2005 WWE era the last RAW I saw was the week after VINCE bought WCW I stopped watching after that

[@jamesmcgeachy5433]

🎉

[@andycain4351]

I remember seeing Bradshaw at a house show shortly before the JBL character debuted. The crowd were completely indifferent to him whereas i was booing him unrelentlessly. After his match, he looked at where i was sitting and very clearly wasn't happy and he swore in my direction. The next time i saw him was on Smackdown as JBL. Now, i'm not saying that i inspired Bradshaw to become JBL. Im just not not saying that didn't 😉❤️👍

[@rcdune7132]

Ok most of these angles were hilarious 😂😂😂😂😂... Its WRESTLING! it's FICTION!!

[@craigcarlock8910]

Also Muhammad Hassan and triple h vs booker t were completely offensive racist and had no place in wrestling

[@jeremywilliams5141]

Vince McMahon vs God, anyone?

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Loved JBL

[@FilthyCasualYT]

The Ruthless Aggression Era will always hold a special place in my heart. That's when I really got into WWE for a good few years for the first time, starting a little after Wrestlemania 19. I think a lot of my enjoyment of that time came from completely missing the beginning of it. I didn't hear about the whole Katie Vick thing until over a decade later. I also never had a problem with JBL being the top guy because I never knew of him as Bradshaw of the APA. To me he wasn't a midcarder given the top strap, he was the racist heel you tuned in to watch hopefully get beat down, every single week.

[@MrSHADOWANGEL999]

Yikes

[@venkateshkondapalli1299]

3:11 you say Arab Americans in the background and showing Sikhs and Hindus in the video

[@dustinnyblom7835]

Seems this channel is going woke

[@christopherballero866]

Just curious should Vince go into the Hall of Fame

[@Duckiefasca]

Unfortunately now, after all the stuff that came out, he'll like be a Benoit thing. We know Benoit was a fantastic talent that made an awful mistake, ruining everything in the past.

[@otrgamestyle3562]

This is why movies suck nowadays people can’t separate what’s meant to entertain and what’s real

[@marvelsProtege]

Idgaf what Booker T says too slaves would fight for the person who had them even when they had better lives waiting for them they still would fight for them

[@JamestheXennial]

........wut?

[@Brooks1874]

Woke culture wrestling

[@stuartday1330]

Yes cause patriotism is horrible thing. Wrestling should never go into the realm of politics or social issues. Either in a Democrat virtue signalling way or in a making a statement way..

[@KaBu_FCB]

Chris Benoit deserves to be in the HoF! The man who murdered Nancy and Daniel and himself was not Chris Benoit anymore and the WWE should be ashamed for erasing him. A companie's central task is to protect their employees and no wrestling company did that before 2007 and Chris Nowinski was the point of change as he had to end his short career because of concusions, but they just went on and this is how it ended. And those are only the big news....wonder how many cases of brain damage there really are... @Miller Funny you say he should never get into the HoF, but 10 seconds later you praise all those who died too early....most for similar reasons, like steroids and who knows how many had brain damage too that just wasn't checked? Oh and isn't Jimmy Snuka in the HoF? I hate hypocrisy!!!!

[@SuburbanProperty]

1 - Steroid use does not make you a murderer. You’re comparing people who used a performance enhancing drug and paid the price to a brain damaged killer. There is plenty of evidence to show that steroids played no part in that tragic event. 2 - unfortunately, there is no evidence that Jimmy did anything. It’s probable but he’s innocent until proven guilty. Chris Benoit WAS guilty of murder suicide. 3 - What a dumbass statement. That WAS Chris Benoit. He had CTE due to lack of knowledge at the time but HE still committed those terrible acts. He will never be in the HOF and anyone who says otherwise is an absolute clown

[@joshmans7307]

"10 seconds later you praise all those who died too early...most for similar reasons," Let me know if anyone of them killed their wife & child, then we can talk hypocrisy. WWE definitely bears some culpability in the Benoit tragedy, between how dangerous the work was at the time, and how rampant the drug abuse was. But at the end of the day, he killed his wife & child. That's it. Full stop. There's no getting around that. There's no justifying or rationalizing it. Period.

[@SuburbanProperty]

One is a literal proven killer while the other died before a proper trial could be held. Innocent until proven guilty. And you’re comparing people who use steroids to someone who killed his whole family. Get over it, he’ll never be in the HOF

[@KaBu_FCB]

@@SuburbanProperty So Benoit came back from the dead to stand trial? You people have to look for the reasons something happen, but you only see what happened. That's a big problem of today's society.

[@Jim4815162342]

Until they start cleaning some of the monsters out of the Hall of Fame, I will never discount Benoit. What he did at the end was monstrous, but there are far worse people secure in their places.

[@MapleLeafsMike]

It is a terrible thing