Favorite Ribs/Jokes/Pranks

[J. Hova]

I've been watching and listening to a lot of shoot interviews and podcasts lately where different wrestlers tell some of their favorite ribs and jokes they saw played, were played on them, or they were involved in.  Some of them are absolutely hilarious and have made me laugh out loud when I first heard them.  It sounds like the stories we hear about Curt Henning, Owen Hart, and Davey Boy Smith being the best ribbers are true as those 3 consistently come up with these interviews.


Two of the best I heard involve Owen and Davey Boy.


Before a PPV where HHH and Henry Godwin were to have their hog pen match, the handler arrives with a half dozen or so hogs.  The handler asks where he should put the animals and Owen immediately jumps up and says to follow him.  The hogs end up in Vince's office.


The next one isn't really a rib, but because of Owen and Davey Boy's reputation, it played into it.  Jim Cornette is backstage writing some TV or whatever when he was on the creative team in WWE.  This is around the time that Davey Boy and HBK are feuding for the world title.  Owen and Davey Boy find Jim backstage and said they had Stu Hart on the phone and he wanted to talk to him.  Jim thought it was odd as he knew Stu but wasn't buddy buddy with him.  Davey Boy and Owen bring in a corded phone and hand it to Jim and he immediately thinks it is a rib and Bruce Prichard is doing an impression and he is in the hallway and waiting to get one over on Jim.  "Stu" keeps asking about why they are booking his daughter Diana as less than a virtuous wife at this time, he didn't agree with how it was being presented, etc.  Jim lets "Stu" go on for awhile while working up his response.  He gets his chance and says it is all Bruce Prichard's fault, he is nothing but a sexual deviant, likes going to sex clubs, pays women to choke him so he can feel something, and so on.  "Stu" says ok, he didn't know that, and he'll talk to Vince about this.  Jim Cornette hangs up and as he hangs up, he is chuckling to Owen and Davey Boy about it and asking who it was.  They are astonished at what they have seen and said it was actually Stu Hart.  As they say this Bruce Prichard comes walking through the opposite door from the hallway so it couldn't have been him on the phone.  He asks Jim Cornette what is going on and Jim tells him nothing much but I'm pretty sure I just told Stu Hart you are a pervert.

Anyone else have some favorite stories like these?

[Honeybear Lyder]

Read somewhere about Owen buying a BDSM gear and slipping it into Davey Boy's bag. Then when they're in the airport the metal detector goes off because of all the studs and zippers on the gear and Davey Boy has to open his bag with everyone watching.

[Facetious]

I love the Mick Foley and DDP cookie story. HOW DO YOU LIKE f***ING COOKIES IN YOUR BED?!

[Gerard Gerard]

Daniel Bryan once mentioned he proposed on top of a big hill to get one over on the Total Divas filming crew.

[Gus Richlen Was Wrong]

I remember there was a video someone had from one of the Christmas In Iraq events where the troops get Randy Orton to open a door and there's just a wall right behind it. The look on Orton's face screams, "I can't believe I fell for that...."

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The Paul Bearer "lock on the Haliburton" joke is hilarious hearing Percy tell the story.

Someone put a lock on his metal briefcase (probably) hoping Percy would assume Sunny did it and kill her. (Percy & Sunny did not get along at all.)

Find it online if you never heard it, it's a Cornette & Percy Pringle special.

[魔界5号]

One of my favourites is the story of when Ahmed Johnson was in town for his first WrestleMania and was sat in his hotel room when he got a call from someone at the Jay Leno show asking for him to be a guest. He jumped at the chance and said yes, he would be there tonight. Ahmed went out and spent $4,000 on a suit and a chain, saying he was “pimped out from head-to-toe.” He was waiting outside for a limo that was supposed to be there at 8pm. Davey walked out and asked him where he was going and when Davey found out, he was mad that Ahmed got that opportunity and he hadn’t, despite being with the company longer.

It’s long past 8, and Owen says to Ahmed, “I thought your limo was supposed to be coming at 8?” Ahmed says it is, but it must be late… then Ahmed realizes that he never told them what time his limo was supposed to arrive. He then realized that he was pranked by Owen, who pretended to be from Leno’s show. Ahmed said that Owen and Davey were hysterically laughing and that Owen almost fell into the bushes because he was laughing so hard.

[Honeybear Lyder]

From Bret Hart's book, a bunch of wrestlers were driving to a Stampede show when someone mentioned Bad News Allen's little daughter winning a piano-playing contest back in New York and urged rookie Karl Moffat to go congradulate him. Moffat did and Allen went off on him yelling that his daughter lost both of her hands in a car accident and that he's going to kill Moffat.
Moffat went back to his seat and cried until Bad News felt sorry for him and told him to calm down and that he had no daughter.

["Playboy" Don Douglas]

Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express ribbed each other frequently.

Jim has always hated to fly, so he would stay up all night and medicate himself a bit so he could sleep through the flight.

Stan Lane would take advantage of this.

Once, Jim fell asleep slumped over an open magazine on the tray table. Stan slid it off the table and replaced it with a copy of Hustler from his bag, opened, according to Jim, to "the most vulgar display of female genitalia he could find."

Stan went back to his seat and watched people walk by and look revolted. Finally, a flight attendant approached Jim due to the complaints. Jim opened his eyes, jumped, and began flailing his limbs against the table as he frantically tried to close the magazine and get it out of sight.

"Meanwhile, Stan's sitting 4 rows back, laughing so hard he's blowing snot boogers."


Jim said Stan, for some reason, was always paranoid about cops when they were on the road. One night, Stan was driving and needed to pee, but couldn't find an open place to stop. Jim, riding shotgun, said, "Just find a place to pull over and go. I'll keep a watch."

So Stan pulled over, opened the door, swung his legs out, and since he was wearing sweatpants, just whipped it out and started going.

Jim waited til he had a good stream going and yelled, "Ah shit, there's a cop!"

Stan yanked up his pants, swung his legs back in the car, and slammed the door. "The only thing he forgot to do was quit pissing." Jim sat laughing until Stan chopped him. Then he laughed some more.


There's a ton of stories, most of them fairly drawn out, but I want to hit a couple from Bobby Eaton, since his style seemed to require less setup.

According to Jim, they'd be at a Wendy's and one of them would get up to go to the bathroom. While they were gone, Bobby would take the lid of their drink, tie a knot in the bottom of the straw, and put it back. "So you'd sit down, go to take a drink, and the back of your head would cave in."

Another time, Jim fell asleep sitting in the back seat with his feet on the console between the guys. They woke him up when they got to the building and Bobby had taken the laces out of his shoes, started them at the top running to the bottom, and tied them together in a knot between his feet.

[Hit Girl]

The Britney Spears hoax that Mick Foley mentioned in his book.

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Jan 8, 2017 10:57:13 GMT -5 "Playboy" Don Douglas said:

Jim Cornette and the Midnight Express ribbed each other frequently.

Jim has always hated to fly, so he would stay up all night and medicate himself a bit so he could sleep through the flight.

Stan Lane would take advantage of this.

Once, Jim fell asleep slumped over an open magazine on the tray table. Stan slid it off the table and replaced it with a copy of Hustler from his bag, opened, according to Jim, to "the most vulgar display of female genitalia he could find."

Stan went back to his seat and watched people walk by and look revolted. Finally, a flight attendant approached Jim due to the complaints. Jim opened his eyes, jumped, and began flailing his limbs against the table as he frantically tried to close the magazine and get it out of sight.

"Meanwhile, Stan's sitting 4 rows back, laughing so hard he's blowing snot boogers."


Jim said Stan, for some reason, was always paranoid about cops when they were on the road. One night, Stan was driving and needed to pee, but couldn't find an open place to stop. Jim, riding shotgun, said, "Just find a place to pull over and go. I'll keep a watch."

So Stan pulled over, opened the door, swung his legs out, and since he was wearing sweatpants, just whipped it out and started going.

Jim waited til he had a good stream going and yelled, "Ah shit, there's a cop!"

Stan yanked up his pants, swung his legs back in the car, and slammed the door. "The only thing he forgot to do was quit pissing." Jim sat laughing until Stan chopped him. Then he laughed some more.


There's a ton of stories, most of them fairly drawn out, but I want to hit a couple from Bobby Eaton, since his style seemed to require less setup.

According to Jim, they'd be at a Wendy's and one of them would get up to go to the bathroom. While they were gone, Bobby would take the lid of their drink, tie a knot in the bottom of the straw, and put it back. "So you'd sit down, go to take a drink, and the back of your head would cave in."

Another time, Jim fell asleep sitting in the back seat with his feet on the console between the guys. They woke him up when they got to the building and Bobby had taken the laces out of his shoes, started them at the top running to the bottom, and tied them together in a knot between his feet.

Loved the one about Jim buying the gag hammer that made the sound of glass breaking every time you struck it against something, then just dying to use it in a car ride.

[MrElijah]

I can't help but think if Owen and Davey were alive and in good health, they would have been the hosts of Swerved.

[Honeybear Lyder]

Also from Hart's book, him, Jim Neidhart, Dynamite Kid and a couple of Hart siblings were hanging out at the Hart house, and one of them, Bruce or whoever, was messing around with one of Stu's many cats, tugging it by the tail, etc. The cat mewed, and Ellie kept yelling at them from upstairs to leave it alone. Finally, she decided to march down to the living room to rescue the cat, and Bruce heard her coming and quickly handed the animal to Jim Neidhart. Ellie, naturally, thought it was Neidhart harassing the cat and started yelling at him.
Some days later the Stampede crew is in the van waiting for Stu to get in so they can drive to Edmonton for a show, and someone mentions very casually that Stu is a huge cat lover and that he once fired a wrestler cause he was allergic to cats. Neidhart starts getting nervous. Then Bruce says Ellie told Stu Jim was harassing his cat and doing all kinds of things to it. Neidhart starts panicking. Then Stu climbs in the van, and before he can utter a word, Neidhart blurts out, "Stu, I swear I wasn't shoving my finger up your cat's ass!"
Naturally, Stu looks at him speechless, having no idea what Neidhart is talking about, and everyone else in the van falls over laughing.

[lildude8218]

Abdullah the Butcher

[Bear Skin Rug]

During a battle royal when Owen had Triple H in a pinning sunset flip and refused to let go.

[Sephiroth]

Lance Storm used to have a pretty good story about what he called the "death tours" he took part in back in the 90's. These were tours of very isolated communities in northern Canada during the winters that were very grueling, so he and the other wrestlers would seize any opportunity to amuse themselves. For one show, the promoter running the tour was in such a bad mood that he grumbled about not wanting to ever come back to that particular town ever again, so Lance and the rest asked permission to "kill" the town-as in put on a show so bad there would be no way they could ever return. The promoter said sure, not realizing what he was setting in motion. So during the show Lance and all the other wrestlers plodded around the ring as slow as possible, shouting out the names of every move to each other st the top of their lungs, and at the climax they emptied the back with all the wrestlers hitting the ring in an impromptu battle royal, with one of them even using a cribbage board as a weapon. Afterward as they all enjoyed a laugh over it the promoter approached them and said "I didn't realize you were going to kill it THAT dead!"

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Stu is talking to somebody at a hotel during WrestleMania weekend. All of a sudden he gets a phone call in the other room. It's Reg Parks, one of his closest friends. You hear on Stu's end:

"Reg? What are you hot about? Reg, you think you can take me? Come on down and bring it to me sometime, Reg!" Then the guy with Stu heard loud laughter and hung up.

Stu walks back in and sighs. "Owen. The bastard got me again."

[FHgrad99]

I remember reading a story from the Warrior's WCW run when he would appear and disappear when the ring would fill up with smoke via a trap door in the ring. Sometimes Curt Hennig would pee in a jar and put it under the ring so the Warrior would have to smell Hennig's urine while waiting under the ring for his cue to appear.

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My local Wetherspoons does some damn fine ribs.

[魔界5号]

Another small one I love is Daivari getting the pilot on a flight to wish Billy Gunn a happy 65th birthday.