Road Trip After Hours threw a viewer question at Teddy Long that opened up one of the wilder rabbit holes of the show. “Here’s a good question, Teddy. This comes from Scott Lance, and Scott’s asking, what storyline, in your opinion, was the most distasteful storyline ever?”
Long didn’t hesitate.
The Mae Young Pregnancy Pick
“I guess, probably with Mae Young getting pregnant by Mark Henry,” Long said.
The storyline culminated with Young giving birth to a prosthetic adult hand on the February 28, 2000 episode of Raw is War. Mac Davis added a detail. “I heard Gerald Briscoe actually got sick during that. He could not handle it.” Long confirmed it. “Oh yeah. Oh god.”
The story has been corroborated repeatedly. Mark Henry himself, speaking to Inside the Ropes, said Pat Patterson warned him on the day of the segment that Brisco hadn’t been told what was inside the prop and that Brisco “has a very weak stomach.” When the prosthetic hand was pulled out, Henry said, Brisco gagged and Henry was rendered useless because he couldn’t stop laughing. Mae Young was 76 at the time of the angle.
Davis Brings Up Katie Vick
Davis surfaced the next contender. “The Katie Vick thing. Were you there during the Katie Vick storyline, Teddy? I can’t remember when you went over. But it’s the one where Hunter got inside a casket and basically had sex with the corpse.”
Long didn’t recall it. “I don’t remember that.”
Davis kept going. “Oh yeah, that’s probably — I think a lot of people probably go to that one first, just because it’s necrophilia.”
The Katie Vick angle ran across October 2002 on Raw as part of a Triple H-Kane feud. The setup had Triple H accusing Kane of having killed a young woman named Katie Vick a decade earlier. Kane addressed the crowd to explain that Katie had died in a car accident. The next week, on the October 21, 2002 episode of Raw, Triple H went to a funeral parlor set, got into a casket dressed in a Kane mask, and simulated sex with a mannequin made up to be Katie’s body. Jim Ross, on commentary that night and later on his Grilling JR podcast, called the segment “horrible” and said he felt for the parents in the audience having to explain the angle to their kids. The feud wrapped up the following week on October 28, 2002, with a casket match where Shawn Michaels emerged from inside the casket to help Kane win.
Vince McMahon Going After God
Davis pivoted to another candidate. “The other thing too, that comes to mind now that you mentioned this, Scott, was when Vince McMahon was fighting God, and he went to the church. Do you remember this church? Oh, my god. And he was doing and saying things, oh, man. I mean, only Vince McMahon could have done what that was. At that time, a lot of people were not happy with that whatsoever, either.”
Long’s read on it was simple. “That’s what he wanted. He don’t want you to be happy with it, right? Done it.”
The storyline ran ahead of WWE Backlash on April 30, 2006. Mr. McMahon and Shane McMahon vs. Shawn Michaels and “God” went on as the night’s third main event. “God” was represented by a stage spotlight. The build included Vince McMahon walking into a real church on TV to mock God and bragging that while God created Adam and Eve, McMahon created Stone Cold Steve Austin and Hulk Hogan. The McMahons won.
The Mae Young Sardine Bronco Buster
Davis surfaced one more. “Were you around when Mae Young put sardines in her crotch and gave Bischoff the Bronco buster?”
Long remembered. “God, yeah, I remember that. Yeah, Jesus.”
“That sounds horrible,” Davis said. “That sounds absolutely –”
“That is horrible,” Long agreed.
The bronco buster on Eric Bischoff happened at WWE Bad Blood on June 15, 2003. Per WWE Hall of Famer Michael Hayes, who has told the rib story on a Legends of Wrestling roundtable, The Fabulous Moolah was overheard telling Hayes through the dressing room door, “Hold on honey, Mae’s still stuffing the sardines in her crotch.” Bischoff took the spot, was kissed by Mae Young in the ring, and finished the segment with a Stone Cold Stunner from Steve Austin.
Mae Young, born Johnnie Mae Young on March 12, 1923, died on January 14, 2014 at age 90. She was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2008 by Pat Patterson. Eric Bischoff was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2021. Long was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2017 by Ron Simmons and John “Bradshaw” Layfield.
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