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10 Most Controversial Wrestling Moments Of 2022 | partsFUNknown Does controversy create cash? Well the wrestling business sure tested that theory in 2022. These are the 10 most controversial wrestling moments of 2022 but let us know which one shocked you the most in the comments below!  00:00 - Start 01:02 - 10 02:10 - 9 03:19 - 8 04:26 - 7 05:23 - 6 06:19 - 5 07:21 - 4 08:32 - 3 09:31 - 2 10:36 - 1  CAN YOU NAME EVERY WWE CHAMPION? | Survival Series - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tR4m9shHZoQ&t=1s  SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/ Buy wrestling merchandise here: https://www.wrestleshop.com/ Read more Feature content here on WrestleTalk.com: https://wrestletalk.com/features/

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00:00 "Controversy creates cash," says WCW head honcho Eric Bischoff, "but from my experience

00:06 with the Year of Our Lord 2022, controversy is bloody exhausting.

00:11 At every turn this year, there has been something else coming up to keep the wrestling business

00:15 on its toes, and I think we can all agree that what the wrestling business needs is

00:20 a nice, peaceful 2023, just as we wanted 2022 to be the relaxing year of normalcy after

00:26 2021 and 2020, and man, 2019 was nuts too, oh god, we're just gonna keep getting more

00:32 and more ridiculousness every time we take a trip around the sun until the cosmic death

00:35 of the universe comes for us all, aren't we?

00:37 Well that seems like a very cheery way to kick off the most wonderful time of the year.

00:41 Nothing says holiday spirit quite like controversy.

00:43 I'm Tempest Hailing from PartsFunKnown, and these are the 10 most controversial wrestling

00:47 moments of 2022.

00:49 But before we get on with our list, make sure of course that you like this video, subscribe

00:52 and enable notifications to always on so you never miss a fun list just like it, and make

00:56 sure to watch Survival Series here on PartsFunKnown.

00:59 We may or may not have another episode coming soon, so you better get caught up.

01:02 Number 10, Brian Kendrick says dumb s***

01:05 All Elite Wrestling has had more than its fair share of controversial moments throughout

01:09 2022, most of which we'll get to, don't you worry, but one of the earliest moments

01:13 on this list was one AEW was actually able to get out in front of.

01:18 Following the Brian Kendrick's departure from WWE as a producer in February, he was

01:22 immediately announced for a match on AEW Dynamite with the recently returned Jon Moxley.

01:27 That match, however, never took place, as after it was announced, old clips of Kendrick

01:32 saying "really dumb s***" resurfaced.

01:35 Some of it was just dumb s*** of the regular variety.

01:38 The moon being a space station, the sun not being hot, the world being run by a race of

01:43 lizards, all harmless yet terribly frightening nonsense.

01:47 The dumb s*** like denying the existence of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting and saying

01:51 the number of Jewish people killed during the Holocaust was exaggerated, however, considerably

01:56 more dumb.

01:57 These old quotes got the Kendrick match removed from Dynamite, and he hasn't wrestled since.

02:01 He was brought in by WWE to produce Ronda Rousey's match at Survivor Series upon her

02:05 request as Kendrick was her former trainer, but he was not rehired.

02:10 Number 9, Tyrus wins the NWA Championship

02:13 If controversy creates cash, Billy Corgan and the NWA certainly wanted to test that

02:17 theory in 2022.

02:19 The NWA is probably the deadest brand going in wrestling, and has been for most of the

02:23 last three decades.

02:25 While they did have a few strands of goodwill with the all-female Empower event, they have

02:29 since done everything in their NWA power to destroy that goodwill with asinine quotes

02:35 and decisions like this.

02:36 While other promotions continue to showcase many of the best young stars of the independent

02:40 scene, and many of the top promotions continue to put on the kind of match that brings in

02:43 the big gates and buy rates, the NWA has done neither.

02:47 Instead promoting Tyrus vs. Trevor Murdoch vs. Matt Cardona for their Hard Times pay-per-view

02:52 in November.

02:53 Worse still, in the tone-deaf booking decision of the year, the NWA decided notable prick

02:58 Tyrus was their top choice to represent the company.

03:01 Naturally, Corgan insisted it was not Tyrus' exposure on Fox News that got him the push,

03:06 but rather his wrestling ability.

03:08 Editor, insert the clip of Tyrus falling on his old, unathletic ass here, please.

03:13 Harley Race, Terry Funk, Dusty Rhodes, and Tyrus' untalented ass.

03:19 Number 8.

03:20 Jonathan Gresham Quits Ring of Honor

03:22 There are varying levels of controversy when looking at those who left AEW in 2022.

03:27 On one end, you have Cody Rhodes, who, while shocking, uncontroversially worked without

03:31 a contract and put over a young star on the way out before making his way to WWE.

03:36 On the other end, you have the madness in September that could have convinced Tony Khan

03:39 not to long-term book ever again, and then you have Jonathan Gresham right in the middle.

03:44 Gresham was the man who won the interim ROH World Championship at Final Battle 2021, before

03:49 signing on to AEW's version of Ring of Honor, unifying the titles with Bandito's Championship

03:54 at Supercard of Honor.

03:55 Unfortunately, we saw very little of Gresham in AEW.

03:58 A couple of title defenses against Dalton Castle and Lee Moriarty aside, he hadn't done

04:03 much and when asked to drop the title to Claudio Castagnoli in the opening match of Death Before

04:06 Dishonor, he promptly had a heated discussion with Tony Khan over how he had been treated

04:11 and quit the company.

04:12 He still did the job, losing to Castagnoli at the show, but has not been seen in ROH

04:17 or AEW since, only making sporadic appearances on The Independence, which is a shame because

04:21 a man as talented as Gresham deserves to be showcased on the biggest stage possible.

04:26 Number 7.

04:27 Sammy Guevara Keeps Getting In Fights

04:29 Sammy Guevara sure has caught the brunt of the heat from fans over his backstage scuffles

04:33 this year.

04:34 Last year, you had his altercation with Eddie Kingston, which put a stop to their planned

04:37 match at All Out, an altercation that got Kingston suspended as he pie-faced Sammy after

04:41 Sammy reportedly blew off Kingston's taking issue with one of Sammy's promos calling him

04:45 a fat piece of s***.

04:47 Eddie has since admitted to being at fault for this, but that doesn't mean Sammy hasn't

04:50 been hated on vociferously since then.

04:53 Then you get the two-for-one deal on Sammy Guevara fights as just a couple of months

04:56 later you had another backstage dust-up, this time between Sammy and Andrade Alidolo.

05:01 This came after Andrade made a number of comments about wanting out of AEW and was prepared

05:05 to fight Sammy at Dynamite.

05:07 Dynamite came, and somehow Andrade and Sammy were allowed to be within an arm's reach of

05:11 each other, evident by Andrade punching Sammy and getting himself suspended.

05:15 Again, that night saw Sammy on the receiving end of the heavy heat from the crowd, even

05:19 though the accounts of what happened said Sammy was not involved in the violence.

05:23 Number 6.

05:24 Shane McMahon Gets Fired

05:25 Ah yes, the most notable instance of a McMahon leaving WWE this year.

05:30 It had been since WrestleMania 37 that we had seen the tennis-shoe-wearing thumb-son

05:34 of Vince McMahon, but Shane finally made his return to WWE in the Royal Rumble match.

05:40 Finally is a word to be used loosely, because I don't think anyone was particularly awaiting

05:44 Shane's return with bated breath, least of all were those involved in the match.

05:48 Shane reportedly made such a kerfuffle trying to have the Royal Rumble be about himself

05:52 and not the 27 actual wrestlers and two celebrities involved in the match, and he angered a number

05:57 of those involved including Brock Lesnar, who is about as much fun to anger as a hornet's

06:01 nest.

06:02 Shane was so insistent on seeing through his ideas for the match that were described as

06:06 "devoid of logic" that Vince saw to it that he was removed from the company immediately

06:10 after saying Shane would never get another pop in WWE as long as he was there.

06:15 He's not anymore, but I don't think Shane is likely to be the next of Triple H's rehires.

06:19 Number 5.

06:20 Kota Ibushi's Accusations

06:22 Well here's a tricky one.

06:24 Kota Ibushi is best known to fans for being one of the most gifted performers in the world,

06:28 having won nearly every championship in New Japan Pro Wrestling including two straight

06:32 G1 Climaxes and also he was Kenny Omega's lover.

06:35 It has been a while since we've seen the golden star in the ring as he's yet to return from

06:38 a particularly nasty shoulder injury he suffered in his match with Kazuchika Okada in the final

06:43 of the G1 Climax in 2021.

06:45 However, his 2022 was notable for another reason as the typically quiet and reserved

06:50 Ibushi took to Twitter to call out New Japan management for sexual harassment and abuse

06:54 of power.

06:55 Things have been incredibly quiet on this front since the comments were made back in

06:58 the spring, but New Japan did make a public apology to Ibushi with company president Takami

07:02 Obari saying they've worked to have an open discussion with Ibushi.

07:06 Reports said Gato was working to smooth things over between the two sides, but oh what a

07:10 tricky situation this all is.

07:12 Ibushi did pose for a picture over a lovely meal with his ex in September, but otherwise

07:16 we have no idea when we might see Ibushi in the ring again.

07:19 Hopefully it's soon.

07:21 4.

07:22 Naomi and Sasha Banks Walk Out

07:24 Sasha Banks being passed over for Ronda Rousey resulting in Banks walking out of WWE for

07:28 the remainder of 2022 is the biggest unforced error of the wrestling year.

07:33 Sasha Banks and Naomi won the WWE Women's Tag Team Championship at WrestleMania, but

07:37 their reign did not last long at all.

07:39 The tag belts were about as prestigious as the QuizzleMania Tag Team Championship at

07:43 that point, with years of shoddy booking detracting heavily from the excitement that the belts

07:47 started with.

07:48 One might think putting the titles on two stars like Sasha and Naomi might change that

07:51 outlook, but one might be totally wrong.

07:54 Instead, the reported plan after WrestleMania was for Sasha Banks and Naomi to both lose

07:58 to SmackDown Women's Champion Ronda Rousey in separate singles matches.

08:02 Not content to have themselves and their title reign devalued when they were doing their

08:05 best to make the most out of it, they walked out of the May 16th episode of Raw, just in

08:10 time for the WWE commentators to call them unprofessional on-air.

08:13 There have been conflicting reports about the actual status of Sasha and Naomi since

08:17 then, with some saying they've been released, and others denying that being the case.

08:21 And now with those in power at WWE no longer being in power, every big show will in some

08:26 way feature predictions from fans saying this is finally when Sasha and Naomi will be back.

08:30 Royal Rumble 2023!

08:32 3.

08:33 MJF's Pipe Bomb

08:34 MJF's pipe bomb is an oversimplification.

08:37 MJF is this generation's Brian Pillman, outside of the actual Brian Pillman of this

08:41 generation, Brian Pillman.

08:44 But in MJF's case, he is the only one in on the work, and no one else really knows

08:48 for sure.

08:49 This all started with MJF's backstage blow-up with the leader of the TK crew, Tony Khan,

08:54 with MJF reportedly upset about not being given a raise despite his impeccable work.

08:59 This rift between the two sides built until MJF nearly no-showed his match with Wardlow

09:03 at AEW Double or Nothing, with a plane ticket being bought to take MJF home from Vegas.

09:08 MJF did the match, getting squashed by Wardlow, but then Wednesday came and AEW put a microphone

09:13 in MJF's hand.

09:14 He said a lot of stuff, including "f***".

09:17 He called Tony Khan a "f***ing mark" before the show cut to commercial.

09:20 It was a whole ordeal, and boy, ordeal is a word coming up a lot in this one, with MJF

09:25 only returning to AEW at All Out when everything in the company finally got smoothed out.

09:30 Oh, wait a minute.

09:32 2.

09:33 Brawl Out

09:34 I don't think anybody heard about this story.

09:35 We didn't do any coverage of it.

09:37 CM Punk's AEW return didn't seem like it could be going any better up to the point

09:41 he won the AEW World Championship at Double or Nothing, and then he broke his foot and

09:45 AEW went to hell.

09:46 He returned from his injury and immediately shot on Hangman Page in the ring, which set

09:50 off a bunch of alarms, and then All Out happened, and it seemed to go alright, with Punk winning

09:54 back the AEW World title from Jon Moxley, and then Brawl Out happened.

09:59 CM Punk dropped his gripe bomb, tearing apart The Elite, Hangman Page, and Colt Cabana in

10:03 one long prepared tirade.

10:06 The Elite didn't like this, and went to Punk's locker room where they all talked out their

10:09 differences like gentlemen and continued on their way.

10:12 Sorry that was from an alternate universe where Tempest is allowed to have what he wants.

10:15 Rather, in this s*** universe we know and are forced to exist in, CM Punk, Ace Steel,

10:20 and The Elite all had a good old-fashioned Donnie Brooke match in the locker room, a

10:23 brawl that saw AEW launch an investigation into the matter and suspend all of those who

10:27 were involved.

10:28 Which was very annoying, considering four of them had just won belts on that very same

10:32 show.

10:33 Good to get you all caught up on that little snippet of news I'm sure you all missed.

10:37 And number one, Vince McMahon.

10:39 "Vince McMahon is the most successful wrestling promoter in the history of the world.

10:43 He is also someone who was exposed for having allegedly made a series of hush money payments

10:47 to cover up multiple incidents of sexual misconduct.

10:50 Both of those statements are true, and I know which one I think is more important."

10:53 In April, The Wall Street Journal, a big boy news publication, revealed in an investigation

10:58 that McMahon had made a $3 million hush money settlement over an alleged affair with a former

11:03 employee.

11:04 McMahon stepped down as the CEO and Chairman of WWE, but kept his role overseeing creative,

11:09 so optically for fans, very little had changed.

11:12 That would not last, however, as that $3 million settlement only grew as they kept digging,

11:17 resulting in multiple settlements made relating to misconduct claims against McMahon and John

11:21 Laurinaitis, which by the end totaled $12 million being unearthed.

11:26 McMahon finally announced his retirement on July 22nd while we were at a party.

11:30 Look at our shocked faces.

11:31 More seriously, Vince McMahon leaving WWE is the biggest wrestling news story that didn't

11:36 involve a death, maybe ever.

11:38 We never thought it would happen, but boy it sure did.

11:41 F*** Vince McMahon, hold bad people accountable for the bad things they do.

11:45 Merry Christmas!

11:47 And that's our list.

11:48 Make sure of course that you like this video, subscribe, enable notification to always on,

11:51 and make sure you check out one of our more fun wrestling lists as of late.

11:55 We did the lists of best and worst Survivor Series, best and worst war games, there's

11:58 plenty of actual fun bits that don't have any controversy involved, so make sure you

12:02 check those out.

12:03 Until next time, I'm Tempest, Jam That Jam.

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