Values Dissonance/Professional Wrestling: Difference between revisions

* In the 1950s, wrestling matches were commonly won by moves that modern viewers would find incredibly boring, such as the Head Vice, the Abdominal Stretch, and the Airplane Spin. One wrestling gimmick on the recent MTV series ''Wrestling Society X'' [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshaded]] this: Matt Classic (a character portrayed by American wrestler Scott Colton, better known as Colt Cabana, who'd been in suspended animation for five decades and used all three of the above moves as his finishers.

* [[John Bradshaw Layfield|Bradshaw]] (of APA fame) ran afoul of this while performing at a WWE show in Germany in 2004. He jokingly made a Nazi salute (arm pointed diagonally forward with palm rigid). In the United States, [[Cheap Heat|this is a funny (if tasteless) bit of whimsy]]; in Germany, it's ''illegal'' (see more at [[No Swastikas]]). WWE came under fire for this incident, and they promptly disciplined Bradshaw by....[[Karma Houdini|booking him to win the WWE Championship]] at ''The Great American Bash''.

* Mocked during [[Jeff Jarrett]]'s heel phase in the late '90s, where he became outrageously sexist and kept shouting at women to literally [[Stay in The Kitchen]], "barefoot and pregnant." It eventually led to a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]] when the entire female roster ran out and kicked his ass.

* A well-known incident happened between Jimmy Snuka and Roddy Piper during one of the latter's "Piper's Pit" segments, where Piper tried to make Snuka "feel at home" by offering him coconuts and bananas (Snuka, born James Reiher, is of mixed Melanesian and European descent) and calling him a "monkey." It's been referenced many times over the years to the point where the WWE can now comfortably parody it without causing any offence.