5 Times commentators were attacked by WWE Superstars

#4. Dio Maddin put through a table

Back during WWE Premiere Week, Dio Maddin was one of the big winners when he was handed one of the biggest posts in the WWE broadcast team - on the announce desk of Monday Night RAW, alongside Vic Joseph and Jerry 'The King' Lawler. It was a bold, fresh new approach by WWE, in the same week in which Friday Night SmackDown made its debut on FOX.

Sadly for him, the stint proved to be short, and Maddin was back pursuing his singles career as an NXT Superstar within six weeks or so.

In between, however, came one of the most brutal attacks on a commentator, when Brock Lesnar decimated Maddin. Lesnar had been confronting Lawler in his search for Rey Mysterio, when Maddin stood and squared up to The Beast in The King's defense. A tall, imposing man himself, Maddin was no meek mouse - but he was no match for Lesnar, who left him laying with an F5 through the table.

You can watch the tense confrontation and devastating assault above, courtesy of WWE's YouTube channel.