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* At the G1 Supercard, co-produced by Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and Wrestling/RingOfHonor, the indie wrestlers formerly known as Wrestling/EnzoAndCass jumped the guardrail and stormed the ring. There was actually some genuine confusion in the moment as to whether it was a work or a shoot, as the camera cut away immediately and they were quickly removed by security like they were genuine intruders, rather than them being allowed to cut a promo, milk the crowd or attack the match participants. The next day ROH announced that it was a work and that the pair had signed with the promotion as "nZo" and "Big Ca$", despite both men being mired in personal and legal issues that should preclude working with any major company. This drew scorn from the fans, especially when it was revealed that ROH had not informed NJPW of the plan ahead of time. They were released without ever working a single match for ROH.

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* At the G1 Supercard, co-produced by Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and Wrestling/RingOfHonor, the indie wrestlers formerly known as Wrestling/EnzoAndCass jumped the guardrail and stormed the ring. There was actually some genuine confusion in the moment as to whether it was a work or a shoot, as Enzo had shoot gatecrashed Survivor Series that year. Additionally the camera cut away immediately and they were quickly removed by security like they were genuine intruders, rather than them being allowed to cut a promo, milk the crowd or attack the match participants. The next day ROH announced that it was a work and that the pair had signed with the promotion as "nZo" and "Big Ca$", despite both men being mired in personal and legal issues that should preclude working with any major company. This drew scorn from the fans, especially when it was revealed that ROH had not informed NJPW of the plan ahead of time. They were released without ever working a single match for ROH.
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* Wrestling/AJLee cut a CM Punk-esque promo during her run as the Divas Champion, and she used it to great effect, tearing apart the supposedly "plastic, interchangeable" ''Series/TotalDivas'' women who seemingly hadn't earned their spots on the roster like she had. Despite supposedly being a heel, it just got her over even further.

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* Wrestling/AJLee cut a (fittingly, considering their later marriage) CM Punk-esque promo during her run as the Divas Champion, and she used it to great effect, tearing apart the supposedly "plastic, interchangeable" ''Series/TotalDivas'' women who seemingly hadn't earned their spots on the roster like she had. Despite supposedly being a heel, it just got her over even further.
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* If security arrives to break it up, are they ''really trying'' to break it up, or just doing the usual wrestling schmoz? Are they legitimate law enforcement (uniform, badge, gun), or clearly just jobbers/training school guys wearing a shirt that says "SECURITY"?
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* If security arrives to break it up, are they ''really trying'' to break it up, or just doing the usual wrestling schmoz? Are they legitimate law enforcement (uniform, badge, gun), or clearly just jobbers/training school guys wearing a shirt that says "SECURITY"?
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* The ECW One Night Stand 2005 pay-per-view plays it straight with one promo and subverts it with some commentary later on. The first instance was a Wrestling/RobVanDam promo where he claims he's shooting and talks about how important the night was and how, to him, missing it is worse than missing ''[=WrestleMania=]''. The subverted part is during Joey Styles' infamous remarks about Wrestling/MikeAwesome (calling him a "Judas" for the way he left ECW for WCW while still champ, and wishing that a Suicide Splash had actually killed him). Wrestling/MickFoley points out it's a shoot (which, as mentioned above, is typically a sign that it's a work), but Joey really did get in trouble for his comments after the show.

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* The ECW One Night Stand 2005 pay-per-view plays it straight with one promo and subverts it with some commentary later on. The first instance was a Wrestling/RobVanDam promo where he claims he's shooting and talks about how important the night was and how, to him, missing it is worse than missing ''[=WrestleMania=]''. The subverted part is during Joey Styles' infamous remarks about Wrestling/MikeAwesome (calling him a "Judas" for the way he left ECW for WCW while still champ, and wishing that a Suicide Splash had actually killed him). Wrestling/MickFoley points out it's a shoot (which, as mentioned above, is typically a sign that it's a work), but Joey really did get in trouble for his comments after the show. And let's not forget Wrestling/PaulHeyman's promo on the ''Raw'' and ''Smackdown'' wrestlers sitting in the private box, where he makes reference to the Edge/Lita/Hardy stuff mentioned above ("Hide your wives, it's Edge!") and tells Wrestling/{{JBL}} that he only got a world title run "because Wrestling/TripleH didn't want to work [[Wrestling/SmackDownLive Tuesdays]]."
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->''We felt that something had to be done. And it was done in a manner in which people are still talking and asking questions about it -- the ''right'' questions about it -- to this very day. "Who knew about it? What did they know about it? ''When'' did they know about it?" Nobody knew about it. Just [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul]] and I, and on that night, Shane.''

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->''We ->''"We felt that something had to be done. And it was done in a manner in which people are still talking and asking questions about it -- the ''right'' questions about it -- to this very day. "Who 'Who knew about it? What did they know about it? ''When'' did they know about it?" it?' Nobody knew about it. Just [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul]] and I, and on that night, Shane.''"''
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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZwB1kUXBI face-off]] during the contract signing between Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/RomanReigns in the lead-up to their match at ''Wrestling/NoMercy 2017'' saw both men cutting promos on each other ''laden'' with reality subtext, as they brought up pretty much every real life issue fans have with them that make them such {{Base Breaking Character}}s. Cena called out Reigns for being a half-baked, corporate-manufactured {{Expy}} of him, Reigns criticised Cena for burying the careers of other young up-and-comers, Cena criticised Reigns for being given all the opportunities in the world but not managing to even get as over as him, and both men used booking terminology such as describing each other (and even themselves) and being "protected". It's uncertain ''exactly'' how much of the promos were scripted and approved backstage in advance and how much saw them improvising; certainly a part where Reigns visibly forgets his lines and Cena rips into him with "It's called a promo, kid, if you wanna be the Big Dog you gotta learn to do it" wouldn't have been preplanned, but [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]] was thoroughly convinced that pretty much all of it had been personally cleared by Vince in advance[[note]]The real kicker of that promo was Cena telling Reigns "I'm only here because you can't do your job!", in other words saying that Reigns was a failure as a top guy and wasn't drawing enough money. No word on if Vince approved ''that'' line[[/note]]. It was unquestionably given away to be at least mostly a work when John rebutted Reigns' accusations of him having a "golden shovel" by saying [[BlatantLies "they]] ''[[BlatantLies (the fans)]]'' [[BlatantLies hold the keys, they always have, they always will"]].

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* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLZwB1kUXBI face-off]] during the contract signing between Wrestling/JohnCena and Wrestling/RomanReigns in the lead-up to their match at ''Wrestling/NoMercy 2017'' saw both men cutting promos on each other ''laden'' with reality subtext, as they brought up pretty much every real life issue fans have with them that make them such {{Base Breaking Character}}s. Cena called out Reigns for being a half-baked, corporate-manufactured {{Expy}} of him, Reigns criticised Cena for burying the careers of other young up-and-comers, Cena criticised Reigns for being given all the opportunities in the world but not managing to even get as over as him, and both men used booking terminology such as describing each other (and even themselves) and being "protected". It's uncertain ''exactly'' how much of the promos were scripted and approved backstage in advance and how much saw them improvising; certainly a part where Reigns visibly forgets his lines and Cena rips into him with "It's called a promo, kid, if you wanna be the Big Dog you gotta learn to do it" wouldn't have been preplanned, but [[Wrestling/TheWrestlingObserverNewsletter Dave Meltzer]] was thoroughly convinced that pretty much all of it had been personally cleared by Vince in advance[[note]]The real kicker of that promo was Cena telling Reigns "I'm only still here because you can't do your job!", in other words saying that Reigns was a failure as a top guy and wasn't drawing enough money. No word on if Vince approved ''that'' line[[/note]]. It was unquestionably given away to be at least mostly a work when John rebutted Reigns' accusations of him having a "golden shovel" by saying [[BlatantLies "they]] ''[[BlatantLies (the fans)]]'' [[BlatantLies hold the keys, they always have, they always will"]].
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* Wrestling/CMPunk's onscreen feud with Wrestling/JohnCena and off-screen contract squabbles in the summer of 2011 were turned into one giant worked shoot. After declaring he was leaving WWE on TV, he then cut a promo where he bashed WWE for being MerchandiseDriven and firing his friends like Wrestling/ColtCabana;[[note]]Cabana had had a brief, unsuccesful run as Scotty Goldman. To say that Punk and Cabana are no longer friends would be a '''massive''' understatement[[/note]] he was promptly "suspended" for his words, only to be reinstated the following week at Cena's request (WWE actually announced the reinstatement five days earlier, possibly to suggest further that the suspension was real). Punk then beat Cena at Money in the Bank and ran out with the WWE Championship, only to keep popping up at WWE promotional events, inciting smarks in the area and daring new WWE head Triple H to hire him back. Sure enough, once WWE appointed a "new" WWE Champion, a re-hired Punk appeared on ''Raw'' to challenge with the old belt.

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* Wrestling/CMPunk's onscreen feud with Wrestling/JohnCena and off-screen contract squabbles in the summer of 2011 were turned into one giant worked shoot. After declaring he was leaving WWE on TV, he then cut a promo -- christened by the wrestling community as the "Pipebomb" -- where he bashed WWE for being MerchandiseDriven and firing his friends like Wrestling/ColtCabana;[[note]]Cabana Wrestling/ColtCabana[[note]]Cabana had had a brief, unsuccesful unsuccessful run as Scotty Goldman. To say that Punk and Cabana are no longer friends would be a '''massive''' understatement[[/note]] understatement[[/note]]. His mic was cut during the middle of his promo to "silence" him and he was promptly "suspended" for his words, only to be reinstated the following week at Cena's request (WWE actually announced the reinstatement five days earlier, possibly to suggest further that the suspension was real). Punk then beat Cena at Money in the Bank and ran out with the WWE Championship, only to keep popping up at WWE promotional events, inciting smarks in the area and daring new WWE head Triple H to hire him back. Sure enough, once WWE appointed a "new" WWE Champion, a re-hired Punk appeared on ''Raw'' to challenge with the old belt.
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* In Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri's SMASH, there was "The World Famous" Wrestling/{{Kana|koUrai}} writing a manifesto on how to save Joshi pro wrestling. This somewhat backfired, as most fans either wondered why she had gone off on this tangent or just equated it to all the heel promos she had already cut in 2010. Other pro wrestlers and promoters were the people most upset, to the point it actually setback her bookings for a couple years and lead to {{flanderization}} of Kana being a sneaky, manipulative, {{arrogant|kung fu guy}} megalomaniac for the next [[NeverLiveItDown half decade]].

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* In Wrestling/YoshihiroTajiri's SMASH, there was "The World Famous" Wrestling/{{Kana|koUrai}} writing a manifesto on how to save Joshi pro wrestling. This somewhat backfired, as most fans either wondered why she had gone off on this tangent or just equated it to all the heel promos she had already cut in 2010. Other pro wrestlers and promoters were the people most upset, to the point it actually setback set back her bookings for a couple years and lead led to {{flanderization}} of Kana being a sneaky, manipulative, {{arrogant|kung fu guy}} megalomaniac for the next [[NeverLiveItDown half decade]].



* In WSU, there was DJ Hyde firing a good part of the roster and banning Jessicka Havok for life after she decided to work at a TNA event. In this case it worked because many women had left the company when he took over, coincidentally [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere or otherwise.]] [[note]]they left because of Drew Cordeiro becoming their boss and some came back when Hyde took over. But Hyde has an evil boss gimmick so [[CardCarryingVillain he incorrectly takes the blame]] [[{{Heel}} for getting rid of wrestlers.]][[/note]]
* At the G1 Supercard, co-produced by Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and Wrestling/RingOfHonor, the indie wrestlers formerly known as Wrestling/EnzoAndCass jumped the guardrail and stormed the ring. There was actually some genuine confusion in the moment as to whether it was a work or a shoot, as the camera cut away immediately and they were quickly removed by security like they were genuine intruders; rather than them being allowed to cut a promo, milk the crowd or attack the match participants. The next day ROH announced that it was a work and that the pair had signed with the promotion as "nZo" and "Big Ca$", despite both men being mired in personal and legal issues that should preclude working with any major company. This drew scorn from the fans, especially when it was revealed that ROH had not informed NJPW of the plan ahead of time. They were released without ever working a single match for ROH.
* On June 1, 2022, Wrestling/{{MJF}}, with it publicly known that he's unhappy with his contract, cuts a worked shoot promo on ''AEW Dynamite'' trashing most of the roster (throwing particular shade to AEW executive [=VPs=] The Young Bucks) and concluding by telling [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]] owner Tony Khan "FIRE ME! FIRE ME YOU FUCKING MARK!" before his mic is cut. He didn't return to TV for three months, and Khan "No comment"-ed every time he was asked, leading many to believe this was just a plain shoot rather than a worked one.
** It was finally confirmed as a worked shoot—or possibly a shoot that ''became'' worked—at ''All Out'' on September 4, when he won the Casino Ladder Match as the masked "Joker" (thanks to ''massive'' outside interference) to guarantee a future shot at the AEW World Championship. After Wrestling/CMPunk defeated Wrestling/JonMoxley to reclaim the world title, The Joker took off his mask in a video, revealing himself as MJF, who then came out live on stage to stare down Punk and gesture that the belt would soon be his[[note]]Though with Punk being injured during that match, and suspended for what happened after the match, MJF had to settle for beating Moxley for the belt[[/note]]. As it turned out, MJF's absence conveniently coincided with filming for ''Film/TheIronClaw'', an upcoming biopic of the Wrestling/{{Von Erich family}} focusing mainly on Kevin, with MJF playing Lance Von Erich, briefly a kayfabe-only member of the family.

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* In WSU, there was DJ Hyde firing a good part of the roster and banning Jessicka Havok for life after she decided to work at a TNA event. In this case it worked because many women had left the company when he took over, coincidentally [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere or otherwise.]] [[note]]they [[note]]They left because of Drew Cordeiro becoming their boss boss, and some came back when Hyde took over. But Hyde has an evil boss gimmick gimmick, so [[CardCarryingVillain he incorrectly takes the blame]] [[{{Heel}} for getting rid of wrestlers.]][[/note]]
* At the G1 Supercard, co-produced by Wrestling/NewJapanProWrestling and Wrestling/RingOfHonor, the indie wrestlers formerly known as Wrestling/EnzoAndCass jumped the guardrail and stormed the ring. There was actually some genuine confusion in the moment as to whether it was a work or a shoot, as the camera cut away immediately and they were quickly removed by security like they were genuine intruders; intruders, rather than them being allowed to cut a promo, milk the crowd or attack the match participants. The next day ROH announced that it was a work and that the pair had signed with the promotion as "nZo" and "Big Ca$", despite both men being mired in personal and legal issues that should preclude working with any major company. This drew scorn from the fans, especially when it was revealed that ROH had not informed NJPW of the plan ahead of time. They were released without ever working a single match for ROH.
* On June 1, 2022, Wrestling/{{MJF}}, with it publicly known that he's unhappy with his contract, cuts a worked shoot promo on ''AEW Dynamite'' trashing most of the roster (throwing particular shade to AEW executive [=VPs=] The Young Bucks) and concluding by telling [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]] owner Tony Khan "FIRE ME! FIRE ME ME, YOU FUCKING MARK!" before his mic is cut. He didn't return to TV for three months, and Khan "No comment"-ed every time he was asked, leading many to believe this was just a plain shoot rather than a worked one.
** It was finally confirmed as a worked shoot—or shoot — or possibly a shoot that ''became'' worked—at worked — at ''All Out'' on September 4, when he won the Casino Ladder Match as the masked "Joker" (thanks to ''massive'' outside interference) to guarantee a future shot at the AEW World Championship. After Wrestling/CMPunk defeated Wrestling/JonMoxley to reclaim the world title, The Joker took off his mask in a video, revealing himself as MJF, who then came out live on stage to stare down Punk and gesture that the belt would soon be his[[note]]Though with Punk being injured during that match, and suspended for what happened after the match, MJF had to settle for beating Moxley for the belt[[/note]]. As it turned out, MJF's absence conveniently coincided with filming for ''Film/TheIronClaw'', an upcoming biopic of the Wrestling/{{Von Erich family}} focusing mainly on Kevin, with MJF playing Lance Von Erich, briefly a kayfabe-only member of the family.
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** Worked shoots were somewhat endemic to Japanese professional wrestling. First, there was Wrestling/AntonioInoki, who won a series of (fake) shoot fights with fighters of various martial arts disciplines (and drew a real fight with Muhammad Ali, doing serious damage to Ali's legs in the process despite goofy restrictions on his side.[[note]]Ali was under the understanding that the match would be a work, and only found out 15 minutes before bell time that Inoki had planned on fighting for real - the rules were then cobbled together in that 15 minutes before the match started. One of them was that Inoki could only throw kicks if one knee was in contact with the ground, leading to a surreal fight where Inoki lied on his back and kicked Ali's legs a lot.[[/note]]) Then in the 1980s, several wrestlers in Inoki's New Japan promotion with real martial arts backgrounds felt that they were being forced to lose to inferior opponents. Two of them ([[Wrestling/SatoruSayama Satoru "Tiger Mask" Sayama]] and Wrestling/AkiraMaeda) formed the Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation, which was the first shootwrestling promotion. The shootwrestlers eventually made their way back to the mainstream promotions, and New Japan to this day still has a heavy emphasis on matwork and submissions due to their influence (and almost all major promotions in Japan go to clean finishes for the same reason). Several promotions down the line, shootwrestlers such as Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki felt they were being forced to lose to inferior opponents, and formed Pancrase, which did away with the whole predetermined outcome thing, and set the stage for Japan's next cultural fad (and America's MMA PPV phenomenon.)[[labelnote:*]]technically Sayama's shooto was the first MMA company, formed because he didn't want to play politics, which is to say he didn't want to share the money he felt was his right as the most popular wrestler. But Shooto failed because as Sayama soon discovered, real fighters were just as capable of playing politics as any pro wrestler.[[/labelnote]]

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** Worked shoots were somewhat endemic to Japanese professional wrestling. First, there was Wrestling/AntonioInoki, who won a series of (fake) shoot fights with fighters of various martial arts disciplines (and drew a real fight with Muhammad Ali, doing serious damage to Ali's legs in the process despite goofy restrictions on his side.[[note]]Ali was under the understanding that the match would be a work, and only found out 15 minutes before bell time that Inoki had planned on fighting for real - the rules were then cobbled together in that 15 minutes before the match started. One of them was that Inoki could only throw kicks if one knee was in contact with the ground, leading to a surreal fight where Inoki lied laid on his back and kicked Ali's legs a lot.[[/note]]) Then in the 1980s, several wrestlers in Inoki's New Japan promotion with real martial arts backgrounds felt that they were being forced to lose to inferior opponents. Two of them ([[Wrestling/SatoruSayama Satoru "Tiger Mask" Sayama]] and Wrestling/AkiraMaeda) formed the Wrestling/UniversalWrestlingFederation, which was the first shootwrestling promotion. The shootwrestlers eventually made their way back to the mainstream promotions, and New Japan to this day still has a heavy emphasis on matwork and submissions due to their influence (and almost all major promotions in Japan go to clean finishes for the same reason). Several promotions down the line, shootwrestlers such as Wrestling/MasakatsuFunaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki felt they were being forced to lose to inferior opponents, and formed Pancrase, which did away with the whole predetermined outcome thing, and set the stage for Japan's next cultural fad (and America's MMA PPV phenomenon.)[[labelnote:*]]technically Sayama's shooto Shooto was the first MMA company, formed because he didn't want to play politics, which is to say he didn't want to share the money he felt was his right as the most popular wrestler. But Shooto failed because because, as Sayama soon discovered, real fighters were just as capable of playing politics as any pro wrestler.[[/labelnote]]
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* Wrestling/JimCornette banning Wrestling/LowKi for life from Wrestling/RingOfHonor. It worked because Low Ki does have a history of leaving promotions when he doesn't get his way, being hard to deal with or being too stiff, the reason his banning was for supposedly giving Cornette an injury. [[GoneHorriblyRight In fact]], [[XPacHeat it might have worked a bit too well]], as people started to hate Cornette and ROH ''personally'' for it. And not in the come to the show on the off chance someone might beat Cornette way.

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* Wrestling/JimCornette banning Wrestling/LowKi for life from Wrestling/RingOfHonor. It worked because Low Ki does have a history of leaving promotions when he doesn't get his way, being hard to deal with or being too stiff, the reason his banning was for supposedly giving Cornette an injury. [[GoneHorriblyRight In fact]], [[XPacHeat it might have worked a bit too well]], as people started to hate Cornette and ROH ''personally'' for it. And not in the come "come to the show on the off chance someone might beat Cornette Cornette" way.
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* Gabe Sapolsky burying Wrestling/ChrisHero on commentary when he made his first appearance for Ring of Honor, leading Hero to call Sapolsky and ungrateful bastard and boast that his match drew more than any ROH ever did with Wrestling/KentaKobashi. This lead to a serious escalation in the Wrestling/{{CZW}} feud.

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* Gabe Sapolsky burying Wrestling/ChrisHero on commentary when he made his first appearance for Ring of Honor, leading Hero to call Sapolsky and an ungrateful bastard and boast that his match drew more than any that ROH ever did with Wrestling/KentaKobashi. This lead led to a serious escalation in the Wrestling/{{CZW}} feud.
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* The ECW One Night Stand 2005 pay-per-view plays it straight with one promo and subverts it with some commentary later on. The first instance was a Wrestling/RobVanDam promo where he claims he's shooting and talks about how important the night was and how to him, missing it is worse than missing ''[=WrestleMania=]''. The subverted part is during Joey Styles' infamous remarks about Wrestling/MikeAwesome (calling him a "Judas" for the way he left ECW for WCW while still champ, and wishing that a Suicide Splash had actually killed him). Wrestling/MickFoley points out it's a shoot (which, as mentioned above, is typically a sign that it's a work), but Joey really did get in trouble for his comments after the show.

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* The ECW One Night Stand 2005 pay-per-view plays it straight with one promo and subverts it with some commentary later on. The first instance was a Wrestling/RobVanDam promo where he claims he's shooting and talks about how important the night was and how how, to him, missing it is worse than missing ''[=WrestleMania=]''. The subverted part is during Joey Styles' infamous remarks about Wrestling/MikeAwesome (calling him a "Judas" for the way he left ECW for WCW while still champ, and wishing that a Suicide Splash had actually killed him). Wrestling/MickFoley points out it's a shoot (which, as mentioned above, is typically a sign that it's a work), but Joey really did get in trouble for his comments after the show.



** In fact, his experience for works came from when he was a Pro Wrestler, it was at Fujiwara Gumi shoot-wrestling promotion where he met future Pancrase founders Funaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki. After he found success at the UFC representing "shootfighting" (Pancrase-style fighting), a former Fujiwara Gumi alumni Bart Vale used a worked victory over Shamrock to hype himself up as an [[AllAmericanFace All American]] shootfighting[[note]]In fact, he copyrighted the term "shootfighting" and founded the International Shootfighting Association) (ISFA). Which prevented indepedent people from promoting the combat sport[[/note]] and MMA legend back in the United States. His actual MMA record is a pitiful 1-2.

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** In fact, his experience for works came from when he was a Pro Wrestler, it was at Fujiwara Gumi shoot-wrestling promotion where he met future Pancrase founders Funaki and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki. After he found success at the UFC representing "shootfighting" (Pancrase-style fighting), a former Fujiwara Gumi alumni Bart Vale used a worked victory over Shamrock to hype himself up as an [[AllAmericanFace All American]] shootfighting[[note]]In fact, he copyrighted the term "shootfighting" and founded the International Shootfighting Association) (ISFA). Which (ISFA), which prevented indepedent independent people from promoting the combat sport[[/note]] and MMA legend back in the United States. His actual MMA record is a pitiful 1-2.



* When Wrestling/AJStyles won the #1 condenter's match for the WWE World Championship held by Wrestling/BrayWyatt, Wrestling/RandyOrton, who betrayed Wyatt a week ago, set out to challenge Wyatt as the winner of the ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble''. Ultimately, Styles and Orton had a match to determine the true contender, which AJ lost. Frustrated, he lashed out backstage at Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon, going as far as driving him head first into his car's window. For that he was "fired" by the GM [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], and AJ's profile was moved to the "Alumni" section of WWE.com. After that Shane challenged AJ to a match at ''[[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania 33]]'', "reinstating" him as an active superstar.

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* When Wrestling/AJStyles won the #1 condenter's contender's match for the WWE World Championship held by Wrestling/BrayWyatt, Wrestling/RandyOrton, who betrayed Wyatt a week ago, set out to challenge Wyatt as the winner of the ''Wrestling/RoyalRumble''. Ultimately, Styles and Orton had a match to determine the true contender, which AJ lost. Frustrated, he lashed out backstage at Wrestling/ShaneMcMahon, going as far as driving him head first into his car's window. For that that, he was "fired" by the GM [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]], and AJ's profile was moved to the "Alumni" section of WWE.com. After that that, Shane challenged AJ to a match at ''[[Wrestling/WrestleMania WrestleMania 33]]'', "reinstating" him as an active superstar.



* A few weeks before Summerslam '18, Wrestling/{{Carmella}} delivered a heartfelt, emotional speech to Wrestling/BeckyLynch about how the latter always helped her out in NXT and that it was an honor to wrestle against her at the PPV. She then offered a handshake...just before James Ellsworth's music played and Carmella blasted a distracted Becky with the title belt.

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* A few weeks before Summerslam '18, Wrestling/{{Carmella}} delivered a heartfelt, emotional speech to Wrestling/BeckyLynch about how the latter always helped her out in NXT and that it was an honor to wrestle against her at the PPV. She then offered a handshake... just before James Ellsworth's music played and Carmella blasted a distracted Becky with the title belt.
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->''We felt that something had to be done. And it was done in a manner in which people are still talking and asking questions about it--the ''right'' questions about it--to this very day. "Who knew about it? What did they know about it? ''When'' did they know about it?" Nobody knew about it. Just [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul]] and I, and on that night, Shane.''

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->''We felt that something had to be done. And it was done in a manner in which people are still talking and asking questions about it--the it -- the ''right'' questions about it--to it -- to this very day. "Who knew about it? What did they know about it? ''When'' did they know about it?" Nobody knew about it. Just [[Wrestling/PaulHeyman Paul]] and I, and on that night, Shane.''



* The on-screen [[NeverFoundTheBody apparent death]] of WWE chairman Wrestling/VinceMcMahon may have been an unintentional worked shoot. WWE was very up-front about the fact that it's only the ''character'' "Mr. [=McMahon=]" that died, and the ''real'' Vince was alive and well (though for at least a few hours, WWE.com claimed that Vince was "presumed dead"), but that didn't stop some news outlets from running the story as real within a couple of days after it happened, and it didn't stopped some finance columnists from [[http://www.cnbc.com/id/19330600 all but accusing WWE of securities fraud for faking the death of the chairman]]. The storyline was scrapped, however, when the Wrestling/ChrisBenoit incident happened, forcing [=McMahon=] out of "death" to address it.
* They tried to turn the obviously scripted stage collapse accident on [=McMahon=] in 2008 into a worked shoot. He can be heard saying "Paul, I can't feel my legs." (Paul is the real first name of [=McMahon=]'s son-in-law, Wrestling/TripleH and [[DoNotCallMePaul he generally refuses to let anyone use it]].) Then they pretty much just forgot about it.

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* The on-screen [[NeverFoundTheBody apparent death]] of WWE chairman Wrestling/VinceMcMahon may have been an unintentional worked shoot. WWE was very up-front about the fact that it's only the ''character'' "Mr. [=McMahon=]" that died, and the ''real'' Vince was alive and well (though for at least a few hours, WWE.com claimed that Vince was "presumed dead"), but that didn't stop some news outlets from running the story as real within a couple of days after it happened, and it didn't stopped stop some finance columnists from [[http://www.cnbc.com/id/19330600 all but accusing WWE of securities fraud for faking the death of the chairman]]. The storyline was scrapped, however, when the Wrestling/ChrisBenoit incident happened, forcing [=McMahon=] out of "death" to address it.
* They tried to turn the obviously scripted stage collapse accident on [=McMahon=] in 2008 into a worked shoot. He can be heard saying "Paul, I can't feel my legs." (Paul is the real first name of [=McMahon=]'s son-in-law, Wrestling/TripleH Wrestling/TripleH, and [[DoNotCallMePaul he generally refuses to let anyone use it]].) Then they pretty much just forgot about it.

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