May 20, 2002 Observer Newsletter: Fallout from the plane ride from hell

Curt Hennig was the second WWE star fired stemming from the flight from London detailed in last week’s issue.

Besides spraying the shaving cream in people’s hair (one of whom was Big Show), which would have been overlooked, he goaded Brock Lesnar into their skirmish, which put people in danger. Even after Lesnar pinned him down in the aisle, Hennig kept wanting more, and people were calming Lesnar down and telling him it wasn’t worth it at that point. Fighting, or actually amateur wrestling roughly on an airplane is dangerous enough, but the fact they were fighting near the emergency exit is even worse.

The stories about them almost going through the door were blown up out of proportion, because the force it takes to open such a door is incredible. Then again, Lesnar is also incredibly strong

There was tremendous heat on both Arn Anderson and Michael Hayes, since both were agents and their jobs are to keep the wrestlers under control, and neither was in any condition to do so.

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