 What's good, George Boy Ross back here again with another video So we're gonna check out 10 most controversial wrestling moments of 2022 man this year for wrestling has probably been the craziest it's ever been in our lifetime, bro, I mean, I Don't even know how to put put it into words the crazy stuff that's happened this year Just in wrestling in general the biggest thing probably and most knows me is Vince McMahon Retiring from his day-to-day duties. No one ever thought we would see that willingly we thought he would probably end up dying doing his day-to-day duties being head of creative in WWE but no he was forced to step down because uh You know I'm saying he was doing some some naughty naughty things back in the day and it caught up to him So that's just probably one of the most crazy is like Notable things that's happened this year in wrestling and there's some other crazy No, no double things that has happened as well and we're gonna check that out on this list Appreciate all the love and support you guys are shown on the channel man. Let's get right into this bad boy Controversy creates cash. So says WCW head honcho Eric Bischoff But from my experience with the year of our lord 2022 controversy is bloody Exhausting at every turn this year There has been something else coming up to keep the wrestling business on its toes And I think we can all agree that what the wrestling business needs is a nice peaceful 2023 Just as we wanted 2022 to be the relaxing year of normalcy after 2021 and 2020 and man 2019 was not stew. Oh god We're just gonna keep getting more and more ridiculousness every time we take a trip around the Sun until the cosmic death of the universe comes For us all aren't we it seems like a very cheery way to kick off the most wonderful time of the year Nothing says holiday spirit quite like controversy Yeah, I'm tempest hailing from parts fun known and these are the 10 most controversial wrestling moments of 2022 But before we get on with our list make sure of course that you like this video subscribe I'm willing to bet the Vince McMahon one has to be number one There's nothing that was more bigger than Vince McMahon Stepping down in my opinion. I think that was the biggest Wrestling news that shocked the world was Vince McMahon Retiring that's just my personal opinion. It has to be number one I but enable notifications to always on so you never miss a fun list just like it and make sure to watch survival series here on parts Fun known we may or may not have another episode coming soon. So you better get caught up number 10 Brian Kendrick says dumb Wrestling has had more than its fair share of controversial moments throughout 2022. This is sure of which we'll get to don't you worry Oh, yeah, one of the earliest moments on this list was one AEW was actually able to get out in front of Following the Brian Kendrick's departure from WWE as a producer in February He was immediately announced for a match on AEW Dynamite with the recently returned John Moxley That match however never took place as after it was announced old clips of Kendrick saying really dumb Resurfaced some of it was just dumb shit of the regular variety the moon being a space station The Sun not being hot the world being run by a race of lizards all harmless yet terribly frightening nonsense The dumb shit like denying the existence of the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting and saying the number of Jewish people killed during the Holocaust was Exaggerated however Considerably more dumb these old quotes got the Kendrick match removed from Dynamite and he hasn't wrestled since he was brought in by WWE to produce Ronda Rousey's match at Survivor Series upon her request as Kendrick was her former trainer But he was not rehired Number nine Tyrus wins the NWH damn bro You lost me at the Sun's not hot You you you build a rocket ship or have Elon Musk see you on a rocket ship and just seeing you straight to the Sun Let me know how that goes out for you Championship if controversy creates cash Billy Corgan in the NWA certainly wanted to test that theory in 2022 The NWA is probably the deadest brand going in wrestling It has been for most of the last three decades while they did have a few strands of goodwill with the all-female Empower event they have since done everything in their NWA power to destroy that goodwill with Asinine quotes and decisions like this while other promotions continue to showcase many of the best young stars of the independent scene and Many of the top promotions continue to put on the kind of match that brings in the big gates and buy rates The NWA has done neither instead promoting Tyrus versus Trevor Murdoch versus Matt Cardona for their hard times pay-per-view in November Worse still in the tone-deaf booking decision of the year the NWA decided notable prick Tyrus was their top choice to represent the company Naturally Corgan insisted it was not tire when he He was um He was in WWE. I forgot what horrible gimmick. He was under where he would dance to the ring I believe Naomi They were was aligned with him. I think they were it was her Naomi and somebody else The funk the dactyls or some stupid shit. Y'all know what I'm talking about. He used to dance in the ring He was a big guy. He would wrestle. He would dance to the ring. I forgot his name y'all y'all know what it is I believe that's him y'all y'all know exactly what I'm talking about. I just can't can't even remember his name It's probably a good reason for him for me to not remember what his gimmick was back there There's his exposure on Fox News that got him the push, but rather his wrestling ability there We go editor insert the clip of Tyrus falling on his old unathletic ass here, please Harley race terry funk dusty roads And Tyrus is untalented ass number eight Jonathan Gresham quits ring of honor There are varying levels of controversy when looking at those who left AEW in 2022 on one end You have Cody Rhodes who while shocking Uncontroversially worked without a contract and put over a young star on the way out before making his way to WWE on the other end You have the madness in September that could have convinced Tony Khan not to long-term book ever again And then you have Jonathan Gresham right in the middle Gresham was the man who won the interim ROH world championship at final battle 2021 before signing on to AEW's version of ring of honor unifying the titles with Bandito's championship at supercard of honor Unfortunately, we saw very little of Gresham in AEW a couple of title defenses against Dalton Castle and Lee Moriarty aside He hadn't done much and when asked to drop the title to Claudio Castignoli in the opening match of death before dishonor He promptly had a heated discussion with Tony Khan over how he had been treated and quit the company He still did the job losing to Castignoli at the show But has not been seen in ROH or AEW since and only making sporadic appearances on the independence Which is a shame because a man as talented as Gresham deserves to be showcased on the biggest stage possible Damn, that sucks. Number seven, Sammy Guevara keeps getting in fights Oh, yeah, Sammy Guevara sure has caught the brunt of the heat from fans over his backstage scuffles this year First there is altercation with Eddie Kingston which put a stop to their plan match it all out an altercation that got Kingston suspended as he pie-faced Sammy after Sammy reportedly blew off Kingston's taking issue with one of Sammy's promos calling him a fat piece of Eddie has since admitted to being at fault for this But that doesn't mean Sammy hasn't been hated on vociferously since then then you get the two-for-one deal on Sammy Guevara fights as just a couple of Months later you had another backstage dust-up this time between Sammy and Andrade I'll eat alone This came after Andrade made a number of comments about wanting out of AEW and it was prepared to fight Sammy at Dynamite Dynamite came and somehow Andrade and Sammy were allowed to be within an arms reach of each other Evident by Andrade punching Sammy and getting himself suspended again That night saw Sammy on the receiving end of the heavy heat from the crowd Even though the accounts of what happened said Sammy was not involved in the violence number six Shane McMahon. I think Sammy he He's playing into it. He he's coming off like a pretentious asshole The crowd doesn't they they the crowd can't stand his real life Relationship with him and his girl and they're always kissing. He just plays into it You know, I don't think he's probably a bad, you know, bad person, you know I would I would hope not but I think he just plays into the altercations. He get into he doesn't really care Overall it helps in his gimmick like the character He's trying to portray just this asshole that you just want to fight and just want to punch You like Sammy has a punchable face. He's one of those people when we see him like bro I just want to punch you that's Sammy and I think that works for him Hopefully going into 2023 doesn't have any more issues Backstage wise that the public hears about granted. It's kind of hard to hide things nowadays But I would hope that's the case going forward. It's fired. Ah, yes The most notable instance of a McMahon leaving WWE this year It had been since WrestleMania 37 that we had seen the tennis shoe wearing thumb son of Vince McMahon But Shane finally made his return to WWE in the Royal Rumble match Finally is a word to be used loosely because I don't think anyone was particularly awaiting Shane's return with no breath Least of all were those involved in the match Shane reportedly made such a kerfuffle trying to have the Royal Rumble be about himself and Not the 27 actual wrestlers and two celebrities involved in the match And he angered a number of those involved including Brock Lesnar who is about as much fun to anger as a Hornets nest Shane was so insistent on seeing through his ideas for the match that were described as devoid of logic that Vince saw to it that He was removed from the company immediately after saying Shane would never get another pop in WWE as long as he was there Damn not anymore But I don't think Shane is likely to be the next of Triple H's rehires. No number five Kota Ibushi's Accusations well, here's a tricky one Kota Ibushi is best known to fans for being one of the most gifted Performers in the world having won nearly every championship in New Japan pro wrestling including two straight G1 climaxes And also he was Kenny Omega's lover It has been a while since we've seen the golden star in the ring as he's yet to return from a particularly nasty shoulder injury He suffered in his match with Kazuchika Okada in the final of the G1 climax in 2021 However, his 2022 was notable for another reason as the typically quiet and reserved Ibushi took to Twitter to call out New Japan management for sexual harassment and abuse of power Things have been incredibly quiet on this front since the comments were made back in the spring But New Japan did make a public apology to Ibushi with company president Takami Obari Saying they've worked to have an open discussion with Ibushi Report said Gato was working to smooth things over between the two sides But oh what a tricky situation this all is Ibushi did pose for a picture over a lovely meal with his ex in September But otherwise we have no idea when we might see Ibushi in the ring again Hopefully it's soon not with his ex Naomi and Sasha Banks walk out Sasha Banks being passed over to Ronda Rousey resulting in Banks walking out of WWE for the remainder of 2022 is the biggest Unforced error of the wrestling year Sasha Banks and Naomi won the WWE women's tag team championship at WrestleMania But their reign did not last long at all The tag belts were about as prestigious as the Quizzlemania tag team championship at that point But years of shoddy booking detracting heavily from the excitement that the belts started with One might think putting the titles on two stars like Sasha and Naomi might change that outlook But one might be totally wrong Instead the reported plan after WrestleMania was for Sasha Banks and Naomi to both lose to SmackDown women's champion Ronda Rousey in separate singles matches Not content to have themselves and their title reign devalued when they were doing their best to make the most out of it They walked out of the May 16th episode of Raw just in time for the WWE commentators to call them unprofessional on-air There have been conflicting reports about the actual status of Sasha and Naomi since then With some saying they've been released and others denying that being the case and now with those in power at WWE no longer being in power Every big show will in some way feature predictions from fans saying this is finally when Sasha and Naomi will be back Royal Rumble 2023. Yep, that's that's literally every pay-per-view now. It's all this is when Sasha's coming back This is when Naomi come a deck. We don't know Maybe she is done. Maybe maybe she is actually done with wrestling Maybe Naomi's doing other things not really worried about coming back to wrestling. Who knows who knows man This this will be an interesting thing. I'm sure they've had conversations with Triple H I know she was very close with Triple H more than anything from what, you know, people have said and just reports So I'm sure they've had conversations. It's just we don't know when if she does come back. Oh best believe They were she will they will probably be featured in a high profile situation for sure It's not even a question. The question is will it happen? We'll see only time will tell but this was definitely a noticeable news story for 2022 number three MJF's pipe Oh, of course. MJF's pipe bomb is an oversimplification MJF is this generation's Brian Pillman outside of the actual Brian Pillman of this generation Brian Pillman But in MJF's case, he is the only one in on the work and no one else really knows for sure This all started with MJF's backstage blow-up with the leader of the TK crew Tony Khan with MJF Reportedly upset about not being given a raise despite his impeccable work This riff between the two sides built until MJF nearly no showed his match with Wardlow at AEW Double or nothing with a plane ticket being bought to take MJF home from Vegas MJF did the match getting squashed by Wardlow, but then Wednesday came and AEW put a microphone in MJF's hand He said a lot of stuff including he called Tony Khan a mark before the show cut to commercial It was a whole ordeal and boy ordeal is a word coming up a lot in this one with MJF only returning to AEW It all out when everything in the company finally got smoothed out. Oh, wait a minute When I say once again that pipe bomb MJF's pipe bomb will ill forever It's it's it will live in infamy it will live in I can't even say the word it'll live in the minds of all of us that were able to see this Forever bro, it's up there with the CM Punk pipe bomb many years ago This is something we'll go back and watch over and over and over because it was so legendary it was so good and This is why he deserves to be champ and hopefully they Continue to book him correctly and hopefully he's able to have a a meaningful title reign for AEW because God knows they need it and You know, it's it's He He has it bro. He gets wrestling. He is the best thing in AEW in my personal opinion the best thing they got going right now That's just my personal opinion on it. But number two, of course Had to be this all out. I don't think anybody heard about this story We didn't do any coverage of it CM Punk's AEW return didn't seem like it could be going any better up to the point He won the AEW world championship at double or nothing and then he broke his foot in AEW went to hell Yeah, I turned from his injury and immediately shot on hangman page in the ring Which set off a bunch of alarms and then all out happened and it seemed to go all right with punk winning back to AEW world title from John Moxley and then brawl out happened CM Punk dropped his gripe bomb tearing apart the elite hangman page and Colt Cabana in one long prepared tirade Yeah, the elite didn't like this and went to punk's locker room where they all talked out their differences like gentlemen No continued on their way. Sorry that was from an alternate universe where tempest is allowed to have what he wants rather in this Universe we know in our force to exist in Steel and the elite all had a good old-fashioned Donnie Brooke match in the locker room brawl that saw AEW launch an Investigation into the matter and suspend all of those who were involved which was very annoying considering four of them had just one belts On that very same show yeah, good to get you all caught up on that little snippet of news I'm sure you all missed and number one. Yeah, man that It was I think the plans was originally CM Punk was supposed to drop it drop the title to MJF And I think that would have been Fantastic that story would have I'm getting goosebumps thinking about it that story would have been Great because guess what? MJF was super over. He was super hot at this point He dropped arguably one of the best promos of all time They could have led up into that CM Punk could have been like yeah What you said was very you know saying very passionate sounds like someone I know, you know that did it many years before you You remind me of that guy It's like it's pretty much the passing of the torch MJF looked up to see him punk And then see him punk is the person that ends up dropping the title to MJF making him even a bigger star Oh, man, that's what should have happened but it didn't all because Timpers and egos got the best of people and now look what we're at. So Yeah, man, and of course number one I caught it has to be Vince McMahon retiring come on now Vince McMahon Vince McMahon is the most successful wrestling promoter in the history of the world He is also someone who is exposed for having allegedly made a series of hush money payments to cover up multiple incidents of sexual misconduct Yeah, both of those statements are true And I know which one I think is more important in April the Wall Street Journal a big boy news publication Revealed in an investigation that McMahon had made a three million dollar hush money settlement over an alleged affair with a former employee McMahon stepped down as the CEO and chairman of WWE but kept his role overseeing creative So optically for fans very little had changed that would not last however No, that three million dollar settlement only grew as they kept digging Resulting in multiple settlements made relating to misconduct claims against McMahon and John Laurinaitis Which by the end totaled twelve million dollars being unearthed McMahon finally announced his retirement on July 22nd Well, we were at a party. Look at our shocked faces Vince McMahon leaving WWE is the biggest wrestling news story that didn't involve a death Maybe ever. Yeah, we never thought it would happen. But boy, it sure did Vince McMahon hold bad people accountable for the bad things they do But yeah, man that that that was gonna be number one it doesn't that was gonna be number one There was no way we're gonna be talking about this for a very long time You know I'm saying like Vince McMahon Literally retired from wrestling from like doing their day-to-day duties from being head of creative having anything to do with WWE on that level is just mind-blowing and it's always gonna be something worth I don't remember when Vince McMahon was forced to retire because yeah, he was doing some naughty naughty things with them With the money he was making He's doing some very very naughty things man But yeah, 2020 20, I can't even talk 2022 this year has been crazy for the wrestling scene So comment down below. Let me know. I'm pretty sure I can guess which one was probably the most Controversial and shocking for you, but comment down below. Let me know what was the most shocking and or controversial Wrestling moment from this year in your opinion my opinion is it's gonna always be Vince McMahon stepping out Cuz I never thought I would see the day he chest He willingly steps down. Let's make that clear I thought it'll always be medically he would have to step down cuz he just can't medically do it now It's I never thought it would be over. I'm unwillingly leave the company that that was a shocker But appreciate all love and support roll to 150k appreciate y'all kicking with me. See y'all next