6 WWE Superstars who lost their cool during interviews

#5 Vader

Big Van Vader of WWE landed in a lot of trouble

Legendary pro wrestler Vader is known as one of the best Superstars in WWE to have never won a Championship. Even though he was a 3-time WCW World Heavyweight Championship and 3-time IGWP Heavyweight Champion, he could not achieve the same level of success in WWE.

Vader went east to Kuwait with WWE

In 1997, The Undertaker and Vader were part of a TV show. During the interview, the host suggested that wrestling was fake, something that did not go down well with Vader.

He lashed out at the host, throwing the table away and grabbed him by his necktie before the crew intervened to pull Vader off and he was later taken away by Kuwaiti police for his actions.

In an interview with PWMania.com, Vader revealed that the entire thing was a work that went wrong and he was sent to jail in Kuwait for his actions:

“I was standing backstage watching a show on the air. The representative for the WWF was next to me. The producer of the show was a friend of the interviewer. He came over to me and said the interviewer was going to ask me if wrestling was fake. He told me to stand up, act insulted, kick over the coffee table and scare him, don’t hurt him. I said that we were told not to do anything of that nature in this country. And he said 'No, this guy’s a good guy, he knows it’s gonna happen, he’s a good friend of mine and it’ll be funny.' The manager from the agent in charge from WWF said, 'Leon, do what they want you to do.'

"I was acting under orders from the producer, not the agent in charge. But when I did what I did, the interviewer was caught off guard and was frightened. The cops were called and I went to jail. I took the heat. But the point is that it was a skit. They wanted to use this thing to increase ratings, but it just wasn’t the case.”

While Vader may have lost his cool on the directions of the producer of the show, things would have gotten worse for him if WWE didn't know what really happened. Thankfully, The Undertaker witnessed the entire ordeal and explained to Vince McMahon that it was the producer’s fault, helping Vader save his job.