|
Talk about an inauspicious introduction to WWE.
Gene Snitsky’s debut match on Sept. 13, 2004 was one of the most
controversial in WWE history.
With Kane still fuming over his Unforgiven loss to Shawn Michaels, RAW
General Manager Eric Bischoff basically offered Snitsky up as a punching
bag to absorb the Big Red Monster’s frustration.
But Snitsky would punch back — with a steel chair, no less — accidentally
knocking Kane into his pregnant wife Lita.
She would lose the baby a week later, making Snitsky a marked man.
Snitsky has claimed from the outset that the accident wasn’t his fault,
and he went a step further in an exclusive interview for WWE.com:
“I wouldn’t say [the accident] put a damper on things,” a determined
Snitsky said. “If anything, I’d say it’s gonna help my career. Like they
say, there’s no such thing as bad publicity. So, if this is what it takes
to get my name out there and for people to know who Gene Snitsky is, then
oh well, that just the way it has to be.
“I was called up to do a job, and I came in the ring and did what I had to
do. Besides, it wasn’t my fault. She shouldn’t even have been in the ring
in the first place. The way I see it, it’s pretty much her own fault that
all of this happened.”
He also doesn’t seem to be affected by the controversy, recording an
impressive win over accomplished WWE veteran Val Venis just two weeks
after the Lita incident.
|