Through the years, the act of ribbing has change into an artform on the planet {of professional} wrestling, with the likes of Curt Henning, JBL, and even Vince McMahon going to nice lengths to get one over on their fellow wrestlers. However few WWE prank wars have been ever recognized to be as ugly, stanky, and long-lasting because the shenanigans that went on between Marty Jannetty and the late Owen Hart, which concerned using padlocks, canceled flights, and a bag of outdated shrimp.
Throughout a July 2023 look on Wrestling Shoot Interviews, six-time WWE Hardcore Champion Al Snow (who would have been an incredible Batman villain in the course of the Angle Period) supplied a first-hand account of the conflict that raged on between the 2 superstars all through the Nineties. He seemingly spared few particulars when breaking all of it down, both. In accordance with Snow, all of it kicked off after Hart, who was recognized for his pranks, teamed up his brother-in-law the British Bulldog so as to mess with Jannetty. In Snow’s phrases:
Marty had a pair of substances that Marty didn’t prefer to put on; wasn’t flattering. And so the gear that he did prefer to put on, Owen and Bulldog put a padlock on his singlet so he couldn’t put on it. He tried every thing to get that padlock off and he couldn’t do it.
The previous Powerful Sufficient host went on to clarify that for the rest of the run of reveals, Jannetty did every thing he might to get the lock off the singlet, even going so far as asking patrons at a fitness center in the event that they occurred to have had any bolt cutters to interrupt the lock, which might have presumably been bizarre in the event that they did. Spoilers: he ultimately freed his gear, however presumably not earlier than mounds of frustration had piled up.
As Isaac Newton’s third legislation states: each motion has an equal and reverse response, and that’s just about what occurred within the case of the padlocked trunks. Because the tour went on, Jannetty put his plan of revenge into movement. First, he took the air out of the tires of Hart’s automobile outdoors the sector, after which referred to as the close by airport and cancelled the Canadian athlete’s flight out of Pittsburgh. However solely then got here the coup de grâce, or the “bag de gross,” because it have been.
In the course of the closing stretch of the tour, Snow stated he and he Jannetty went to an area grocery retailer the place the previous Intercontinental Champion purchased a bag of peel-and-eat shrimp for the only objective of ribbing Hart and the British Bulldog with the brine…days later. Snow continued:
The final night time of the tour is Bangor, Maine, and Davey and Owen knew one thing was afoot, in order that they acquired dressed of their automobile. Lastly, they introduced their baggage in, after which he grabbed that bag of brine and poured it into their suitcases on their garments to get again at them for placing the padlock on his gear.
Snow went on to say that they continued going forwards and backwards with these sorts of surprising and unpredictable pranks. One of many different most noteworthy gags he remembered was one involving Jannetty discovering a skunk on the aspect of the highway after which bringing that to the locker room with him the following night time.
All of this comes out simply a few weeks earlier than the debut of the Darkish Aspect of the Ring episode on Jannetty, which can concentrate on a few of his largest controversies and successes from over time when it airs August eighth on Vice. However if you’d like, you’ll be able to return and watch a few of the matches between Jannetty and Hart, in addition to all of the upcoming WWE occasions, with a Peacock subscription.
