History MoralEventHorizon / ProfessionalWrestling

* As leader of the Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness, if the Undertaker didn't cross it when he admitted that he killed his own parents and burned his brother, or even when he tried to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1p9vn4e0rE embalm Austin alive]], he certainly did when he abducted people such as Ryan Shamrock and Stephanie. Vince McMahon being the mastermind of the whole thing was HIS crossing of the Moral Event Horizon.
-->'''Wrestling/JimRoss''': ''(after the Undertaker reveals to Ken Shamrock that the Ministry found his sister at a run-down hotel)'' The Undertaker's gone too far! Stephanie McMahon, Ryan Shamrock; this is too much!

* As leader of the Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness, if the Undertaker didn't cross it when he admitted that he killed his own parents and burned his brother, or even when he tried to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1p9vn4e0rE embalm Austin alive]], he certainly did when he abducted people such as Ryan Shamrock and Stephanie. Vince McMahon being the mastermind of the whole thing was HIS crossing of the Moral Event Horizon.
-->'''Wrestling/JimRoss''': ''(after the Undertaker reveals to Ken Shamrock that the Ministry found his sister at a run-down hotel)'' The Undertaker's gone too far! Stephanie McMahon, Ryan Shamrock; this is too much!

* While deaths in the ring are not unheard of, they are extremely rare. So when Ox Baker killed Alberto Torres with his heart punch, that wasn't when he crossed the horizon. It was when he bragged about the death and tried to cause ''more'' with intentional heart punches that he crossed the line. And he was hated ''everywhere''.

* Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio arguably crossed it when he faced Wrestling/DolphZiggler for the World Heavyweight Championship at Payback in June 2013, and spent the entire match attacking the head of Ziggler, who had just come back from a concussion. Made even more egregious given that he was a ''face'' beforehand...leading to [[HeelFaceDoubleTurn him turning heel and Ziggler turning face]]...despite the latter being a ''heel'' beforehand.

** His match vs. [[Wrestling/TheUsos Jey Uso]] at ''Clash of Champions 2020'' crossed it after Roman, not satisfied with Jey just "taking the payday and laying down" and pinning him, decided to lay a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown on his cousin until Jey verbally declared Roman as his "Tribal Chief". Jey [[{{Determinator}} refused to give up]], forcing his injured brother Jimmy to limp down to the ring and literally beg Roman to stop before throwing in the towel for Jey and declare Roman as the "Tribal Chief". Even Wrestling/PaulHeyman, Roman's own "special council" who managed [[Wrestling/{{Rikishi}} The Uso's dad]] in the 1990s, [[EvenEvilHasStandards was disgusted over the beating]]. This also signified that the Roman Riegns of old, vest and all was gone.
** In his rematch with Jey Uso at ''Hell In A Cell 2020'', which was under “I Quit” stipulations, Roman subjected Jey to yet another NoHoldsBarredBeatdown that by the end of the match, Jey couldn’t even stand, yet once again [[{{Determinator}} he refused to submit]]. Having seen enough, Jimmy Uso called out Roman on what he was doing to his family and begged him to stop the match. For a moment, it appeared Roman was [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone showing genuine remorse for his actions]], to the point he broke down in tears...which [[CrocodileTears turned out to be a ploy]] to sucker Jimmy into lowering his guard and force him in a guillotine chokehold, forcing Jey to say "I Quit" in order to save his brother. If the former didn't convince the rest of the doubters, ''this'' certainly did.

** He's crossed it numerous times. Another famous example is when abused his aforementioned daughter in a match on PPV, which ultimately ended with him choking her out with a pipe. He also physically threatened his wife the whole time and shoved her to the ground. Lampshaded by the commentators, as Tazz, who had been defending Vince's actions initially, eventually gave up in disgust and agreed that Vince had crossed it. And when Tazz claimed that this was the first time Vince had struck his wife, Cole retorted "that we know of" lampshading the FridgeHorror of how Vince treats his family outside of WWE (kayfabe-wise, of course).

** While Vince stripping Becky Lynch of her [=WrestleMania=] opportunity maybe justified, him doing the same to Wrestling/KofiKingston two weeks later can be seen as this since Kofi didn't do anything wrong to him and he gave Kofi's championship match to Kevin Owens instead, you know, the man who busted him open two years ago. In addition, Vince's speech of why Kofi doesn't deserve the championship match can come out a bit racist.

* Wrestling/JimmyJacobs crossed the event horizon in IWA Mid-South when he appeared in rival promotion All American Wrestling and threw the IWA M-S Heavyweight Title belt in the trash. He's since shown up in IWA M-S again in defiance of his permanent ban, but is always the bad guy. He was considered a hero in AAW though, at least initially. He also crossed it in Wrestling/RingOfHonor when he tried to impale his ex-girlfriend the Lovely Lacey with a railroad spike, as even stablemates [[Wrestling/SethRollins Tyler Black]][[note]]though we've got more on him below[[/note]] and Joey Matthews felt he was going over the line.
* Wrestling/BrockLesnar crossed it in his first WWE run when he pushed Zack Gowen down the stairs during his 2003 Heel run. Even Wrestling/VinceMcMahon, who has often been called Satan himself by commentators, [[EvenEvilHasStandards looked shocked/horrified by Lesnar's actions and tried to talk him out of it to no avail]].
** He crosses it after his 2012 return by assaulting Wrestling/ShawnMichaels and breaking his arm. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Even Paul Heyman seemed disturbed he actually went through with it.]]
* Portia Perez crossed the event horizon in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}} when she tried to kill Allison Danger's unborn child. While she had {{masked|luchador}} baby{{face}} runs prior she was never really forgiven and retired in SHIMMER with no real friends, besides maybe her tag team partner Nicole Matthews.

* Wrestling/RandyOrton first crossed it in 2005 during his feud with Wrestling/TheUndertaker, which was his first feud after utterly failing to avenge the betrayal he suffered at the hands of Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/{{Evolution}} over the World Heavyweight Championship. First, he cemented a FaceHeelTurn by hitting Wrestling/StacyKeibler, who he'd been teasing a mutual interest with in the occasional odd segment for years and had really started connecting with in the past several months, with an RKO immediately after their first public kiss as a message to Undertaker of what he'd be willing to do to beat him at ''[=WrestleMania 21=]''. How far was he willing to go? Despite Undertaker winning, the feud continued after ''[=WrestleMania=]'' when Orton went to the ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]]'' brand and continued to the end of the year; and in late November, he laid Undertaker out on the trunk of the recently deceased Wrestling/EddieGuerrero's low rider, then deliberately backed said low rider into the ''[=SmackDown=]'' stage, setting both ablaze in an attempt to kill The Undertaker. Got his ass kicked inside Hell in a Cell at ''Armageddon'', but immediately began his next story in 2006 mocking Eddie's best friend Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr by claiming that Eddie was in Hell, earning the ire of both Rey and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr enough that the two actually worked together for Eddie's sake for a few months to keep the same World Heavyweight Title off Orton and put it on Rey before he went back to ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]''. In 2007 after his partnership with the treacherous Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} fell through he made sure he stayed over the line by going on a sadistic spree of taking people out with what became known as [[OneHitKill the Patented Punt]], including putting Wrestling/RobVanDam on a bus in WWE and taking out John Cena Sr.

* Wrestling/ColtCabana crossed the event horizon in IWA Mid-South when he tried to rape Wrestling/ChrisHero's student, Nadia Nyce. In fact, some of his fans declare his IWA M-S run a DorkAge solely because of this incident or [[FanonDiscontinuity just choose to ignore]] that he was ever there.

* Wrestling/SethRollins crossed it in 2014 when he took a retired Wrestling/{{Edge|Wrestler}} hostage and attempted to NeckSnap him even after Wrestling/JohnCena gave in to his demands to reinstate Wrestling/TheAuthority at the end of 2014.

* Wrestling/AlbertoDelRio arguably crossed it when he faced Wrestling/DolphZiggler for the World Heavyweight Championship at Payback in June 2013, and spent the entire match attacking the head of Ziggler, who had just come back from a concussion. Made even more egregious given that he was a ''face'' beforehand.

Due to how many differing character stories professional wrestlers go through in their careers while all being connected to the same person, pro wrestling {{heel}}s have frequently done a lot of villainous deeds and still managed to come around and become {{face}}s a couple years and a few stories later. However, there are [[MoralEventHorizon certain deeds that are so heinous]] that you'll wish the cuplrit receive a massive ass-kicking in the ring before you're ever satisfied with them moving onto the next angle, let alone the next turn or change of character.

* Wrestling/SethRollins crossed it in 2014 when he took a retired Wrestling/{{Edge}} hostage and attempted to NeckSnap him even after Wrestling/JohnCena gave in to his demands to reinstate Wrestling/TheAuthority at the end of 2014.

* Wrestling/RandyOrton first crossed it in 2005 during his feud with Wrestling/TheUndertaker, which was his first feud after utterly failing to avenge the betrayal he suffered at the hands of Wrestling/TripleH and Wrestling/{{Evolution}} over the World Heavyweight Championship. First, he cemented a FaceHeelTurn by hitting Wrestling/StacyKeibler, who he'd been teasing a mutual interest with in the occasional odd segment for years and had really started connecting with in the past several months, with an RKO immediately after their first public kiss as a message to Undertaker of what he'd be willing to do to beat him at ''[=WrestleMania 21=]''. How far was he willing to go? Despite Undertaker winning, the feud continued after ''[=WrestleMania=]'' when Orton went to the ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]]'' brand and continued to the end of the year; and in late November, he laid Undertaker out on the trunk of the recently deceased Wrestling/EddieGuerrero's low rider, then deliberately backed said low rider into the ''[=SmackDown=]'' stage, setting both ablaze in an attempt to kill The Undertaker. Got his ass kicked inside Hell in a Cell at ''Armageddon'', but immediately began his next story in 2006 mocking Eddie's best friend Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr by claiming that Eddie was in Hell, earning the ire of both Rey and Wrestling/ChavoGuerreroJr enough that the two actually worked together for Eddie's sake for a few months to keep the same World Heavyweight Title off Orton and put it on Rey before he went back to ''[[Wrestling/WWERaw Raw]]''. In 2007 after his partnership with the treacherous Wrestling/{{Edge}} fell through he made sure he stayed over the line by going on a sadistic spree of taking people out with what became known as [[OneHitKill the Patented Punt]], including putting Wrestling/RobVanDam on a bus in WWE and taking out John Cena Sr.

* [[Wrestling/QuinnOjinnaka Moose]] arguably crossed it on October 23, 2021 at Impact Wrestling's Bound for Glory; having won the Call Your Shot Gauntlet match earlier in the evening (think the Royal Rumble with the prize being Money in the Bank), Moose called his shot immediately after the main event which saw Josh Alexander submit [[Wrestling/Christian Christian Cage]] to win the Impact World Championship. After the two Canadians hugged it out with Cage passing the torch, and Alexander's wife and son coming into the ring to celebrate his victory, Moose immediately attacked Alexander from behind, then officially called his shot. With a spear and a 1-2-3, Moose won the title, ensuring that Alexander would not bring the title home to his family, making him the shortest-reigning Impact World Champion in history, and standing right in front of said family to taunt them.

* Wrestling/CMPunk mocking Jerry Lawler's legitimate heart attack ''right in front of him''. If that doesn't count, then his mockery of a then-recently dead Paul Bearer (''[[RefugeInAudacity not even a week after the fact]]'') most likely will.

* In RealLife, CM Punk sees Wrestling/{{WWE}} deliberately firing him on his '''''wedding day''''', of all days, as this. An act so heinous, that Punk himself declared that he would never ever return to WWE, until he made his non-wrestling return in 2019 as an analyst for ''WWE Backstage'' on FOX[[note]]It's an important distinction that Punk is being employed by FOX, not WWE[[/note]], and eventually made his long-awaited return to wrestling to [[Wrestling/AllEliteWrestling AEW]] in 2021.

* In RealLife, CM Punk sees Wrestling/{{WWE}} deliberately firing him on his '''''wedding day''''', of all days, as this. An act so heinous, that Punk himself declared that he would never ever return to WWE, until he made his non-wrestling return in 2019 as an analyst for ''WWE Backstage'' on FOX[[note]]It's an important distinction that Punk is being employed by FOX, not WWE[[/note]].

* {{Wrestling/Bayley}} crossed the moral event horizon by turning on {{Wrestling/Sasha Banks}} as of ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackDown SmackDown]]'' on September 4th, 2020 with a sickening chair stomp onto Sasha's throat.