5 Funniest Backstage Pranks WWE Superstars Pulled on Their Colleagues

#2 Jonathan Coachman gets arrested

WWE is scripted Coach!

Everyone knows that everything that happens in WWE is staged. The writers plan all the segments in advance so that nothing could go wrong. However, it seems like Jonathan Coachman didn’t know about this during his initial days in WWE.

Speaking to Back Sports Page, Coachman revealed how Vince McMahon pulled a great prank on him:

"Basically, Jerry Brisco came up to me in 2001 in Fayetteville, North Carolina, and he said he wanted me to run a football pool. $10 to pick all the games and everybody did it. And I started on a Tuesday, it was a Smackdown taping, I'll never forget it. I had my own room I did interviews in, and all the sudden two cops show up. They were very serious and said I understand you're running a gambling pool. You sold one to one of our undercover cops here. It's a felony in North Carolina and we're going to have to take you in.”

They went to Vince McMahon’s room where the chairman cursed Coachman for what he did. The cops told that $1500 could get Coachman out, but Vince refused to help him.

They handcuffed me, and I asked if there was anything I could put over my face. Vince threw me a pair of sweaty gym shorts that got stuck on my face.

The cops drove him for sometime before returning to WWE. Then, everyone started laughing at Coach and revealed that it was a prank. This story was so funny that WWE even made an animated video of it.