10 shocking moments from WWE 2004

#6 Lita's miscarriage

Not WWE's greatest hour

While the Attitude Era is normally thought of as being the most extreme and controversial period of time for the WWE in kayfabe terms, the Ruthless Aggression Era from 2002-2008 also had its fair share of questionable writing decisions. One of the most difficult narratives told in 2004 involved Lita and her troubled ''relationship'' with Kane.

"The Big Red Machine" found himself in a love triangle storyline with Lita and her real-life partner Matt Hardy. After weeks of Hardy attempting to keep Lita away from Kane, he ended up kidnapping the former women's champion.

After a Summerslam match in which the winner had the right to marry Lita, Kane shocked the world by announcing that she was pregnant with his child.

This sparked off an unfortunate series of events leading to Lita suffering a kayfabe miscarriage as a result of Kane falling on her during a match. As ever with controversial WWE storylines, there was a sense that things had been taken too far by this point.

The feud didn't even do much for Hardy's singles career and soon became a regrettable memory for fans of the product going forward.

Thankfully this did lead to a more positive conclusion to the year for Lita who, along with Trish Stratus, helped give some much-needed credibility back to the women's division in a time when they were mostly being used for stomach-churning storylines such as this one.

Of course, this wouldn't be the last of the unfortunate love-stories involving Kane, but from a societal perspective, this has to go down as one of the most shocking and distasteful angles in the company's history.