10 Most Controversial WWE Attitude Era Storylines

7. Val Venis and his Chopped Off Penis

A lot of people casually dismiss the Attitude Era, saying it was nothing but boobies and butts, but that’s not fair. 

It was also about penises!

There were wangs everywhere and nobody used theirs quite as effectively as Val Venis. 

Unfortunately for Val, his member got him into some big, stiff trouble with the members of Kaientai, after he started to have an affair with their manager Mr Yamaguchi-San’s wife. 

Naturally, this made Mr Yamaguchi-San very angry, to the point where the only solution seemed to be, since Val took away the thing that he loved the most, to do the same to him. 

So the group of Japanese high-fliers beat Venis down, dragged him backstage, beat him down some more, tied him up to the ceiling, pulled his trunks down and took a samurai sword to the Big Valbowski. 

It later transpired that contact wasn’t made between blade and shaft, as John Wayne Bobbitt – who famously suffered some similar home surgery in real life – had cut the lights at the last second which, combined with some shrinkage, saved Venis’ meat and two veg. 

The whole storyline was salacious, OTT and caused controversy for the sex and violence aspects of it.