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• Chances are if you go up to Billy Gunn and mention the words "Rock-a-Billy" you're going to make him very angry.
• Former WWE Diva The Kat/Miss Kitty Stacy Carter was reportedly very ashamed of her time in WWE and even had her real name removed from various wrestling websites. However she has since embraced her history and started making several indie appearances, selling her merchandise on E-Bay and sharing personal photos from her time there.
• Subverted with Trish Stratus in regards to the segment where she had to crawl around the ring and bark like a dog, pointing out the fact that it was part of a storyline and that her character ultimately got revenge against Vince for humiliating her like that.
  • Ironically the WWE is quite ashamed of said "Bark Like a Dog" moment along with the infamous Katie Vick angle (which HHH defended at first before realizing how much everyone hated it) and other tasteless bits of the Attitude Era when Linda McMahon ran for the US Senate. An attempt to scrub these clips from Youtube was launched to eliminate all traces of these moments so that they could not be used against her, which failed miserably when her opponents kept reminding the people about them, even without video footage of them.
• Gail Kim is like this towards her entire second run in WWE. Funnily enough she says her catfights with the Bella Twins were the best thing she did when she was there.
• During the early days of the NWO, Kevin Nash cut a promo with The Giant, where Nash made an unscripted reference to how Giant had initially been promoted as the son of Andre the Giant. Giant immediately shot him a look that screamed "Don't friggin' go there ever again."
  • Nash had his own moment when in 2011, CM Punk brought up his alter ego "Oz", arguably one of the most embarassing moments of WCW history from the early 90s. Same with John Laurenitis aka Johnny Ace; as CM Punk has made references to his failed career as a wrestler in the US by bringing up his past with Shane Douglas as part of the much reviled "Dynamic Dudes".