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Real life heat

In the wrestling buisness, the hatred is all staged, right? Wrong. Sometimes the wrestlers take it to seriously and get in real arguments. We call this 'heat'. Here are a couple that we know about but certainly there is more which we have mever heard about.

Dynamite Kid V Davey Boy Smith

A falling out in the early 1990s caused acrimony between the cousins and former tag-team partners which still exists today. Though they haven't seen or spoke to each other in nine years, there was nearly an incident between the two on a British wrestling card Howe Bridge, near Wigan, in 1994. Learning that Smith was booked on the show, Dynamitentaped his fists up and went to the hall to, as he put it, "knock fuck out of him." Smith, however had locked himself in his dressing room and had no intention of coming out until Dynamite had left the premises. Fortunately for Smith, the police arrived and arrested Dynamite and escorted him out of the building.

New Jack V Dances with Dudley

The ever-violate New Jack started this in the ECW locker room after a tag team match on October 6, 1995. Evidently mad about something, New Jack reportedly approached Adolfo 'DW Dudley' Bermudez from behind and cracked him over the skull with his knightstick. Despite a nasty head wound, Dudley managed to regain his bearings hit back, before the fight was broke broken up by other wrestlers. Moments later, there was a second incident between New Jack and Taz, although that, too, ended quickly when other wrestler intervened.

Tony Halme V Norton

Not sure what brought it on but, in Japan, sometime in early 1990s, Halme (later known as Ludvig Borga in WWF) flattened Norton in a bar. Norton- who reportedly put up no resistance whatsoever- has since claimed that he was drunk when Halme punched his lights out.

Kevin Nash V Roddy Piper

There was some heat between Nash and Piper before June 9, stemming form comments on TV, and that was probably on their minds when they climbed into the ring- with partners Scott Hall and Ric Flair respectively- for the top liner of Nitro. The bout was a calamity, a complete mess. Nash felt Piper was to blame. So, immediately after the decision, he headed to Pipers dressing room and booted the door open. Expletives flying, Nash pie faced Piper and shoved him against a wall. The two were separated by Flair and Pipers bodyguard Craig Malley. And that was the end of that.

New Jack V Brian Pillman

New Jack strikes again- though not literally, this time. On June 1, 1996 at the ECW arena, Pillman, then wheelchair-bound after breaking his ankle, compared The Gangstas to the rap group NWA in an interview. Whether New Jack, who was in the backstage area, misheard or misconstrued what Pillman said not clear; however, we do know that he went absolutely ballistic. When Pillman returned to the dressing room, there was a verbal showdown between the two. New Jack then threatened to walk out. In an interview a few days later, Pillman said of the incident: "The fact that I made a reference that someone in the dressing room took out of context, and tried to turn to turn into a racial injustice, is just a complete joke." Pillman never worked for ECW again.

Ernest Mille V Buff Bagwell

The problems began on July 19 of last year when Bagwell's parody of Miller on Nitro wound ' The Cat' up something rotten. The tension continued to esclalate in the run-up to their feud-ender at Road Wild on August 14. Prior to the show, the two began bickering. Then, as the story goes, Bagwell slapped Miller across the face, to which The Cat retaliated with two full on punches to the gob. Bagwell hit the deck taking Miller with him, and suffered a massive cut on his elbow. When they returned to their feet, Bagwell, perhaps fearing more of the same backed away. Just for the record, their match later on in the night went according to plan, Bagwell won.

Hawk V Randy Savage

Two separate incidents here, with one leading to the other. Back in 1996, before a New Japan card, Hawk and Savage had a blow up backstage, which ended when Hawk knocked Savage unconscious. Three years later, at a concert, the two reportedly clashed again…On November 6, 1999 at the Sun Dome arena in Tampa, Florida, Savage and his girlfriend Gorgeous George and another woman ran into Hawk and his wife. According to reports, the Road Warrior extended his had out of courtesy, but Savage batted it away and punched him in the head, knocking him down or out. Meanwhile, George and her female friend allegedly attacked Hawks wife, cutting her open and tearing out lumps of her hair.
Hawk later claimed that he had sought legal advice and was considering filing a lawsuit against Savage. From what we can gather, it hasn't yet.

Sid Vicous V Arn Anderson

Too much beer and bragging resulted in a disturbing incident at the Moat House Hotel in Blackburn, Lancashire on October 21, 1993.
In the bar following the first date of WCW's tour of the UK, Vicious started shouting about his new, mage-money contract and how he was set to be the franchise of WCW. Arn, reports state, didn't want to hear it, and an argument began. Fortunately, the two were separated before it could go any further, and sent to their rooms. Unfortunately, Sid wasn't prepared to leave it their.
Arming himself with a cgair arm, he went to Andersons, woke him up and drilled him the object. Anderson managed to hit back and the fight was on. As it continued, someone grabbed a pair of scissors, and both men ended up with numerous stab wounds to the face and torso. Eyewitnesses said there was blood everywhere by the time the other wrestlers had pulled them apart.
Both men were rushed to hospital, were they spent the night after under going treatment. News of the incident hit the tabloids the following day. In response, WCW flew both men home and scrubbed all plans to push Vicious to the top. He was released from that big, fat contract just a few weeks later.

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