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WWE fans have more access to backstage footage in 2020 than any year in the company’s history.
Not only do WWE Superstars often post videos of themselves backstage at shows, but WWE releases similar footage on social media and in documentaries.
Over the years, several WWE Superstars have shown off a fun side to their real-life personalities by scaring some of their colleagues backstage.
The likes of Paige and Sasha Banks have been involved in pranks on their fellow WWE Superstars on the main roster. Meanwhile, in WWE NXT, coach Matt Bloom has dedicated most of his Instagram account to frightening Performance Center recruits.
In this article, let’s take a look at five times that WWE stars scared another wrestler.
#5 Renee Young scared WWE Superstar Becky Lynch
Paige and Renee Young decided to play a prank on Becky Lynch before the June 19, 2018 episode of WWE SmackDown.
The two women spotted that Lynch had left her luggage bag in the middle of the floor in the women’s locker room.
Paige thought it would be funny to hide inside the bag and jump out when Lynch returned and tried to open it. However, she soon realized that she did not fit in the bag, so she got Young to help her out.
Young fit in the bag and, as you can see in the video above, the plan worked to perfection.
Lynch, who did not suspect a thing, shouted, “Oh my God!” when she noticed Young in her bag.
Paige explained the logic behind the prank in an interview on WWE’s YouTube channel.
“We do love a good prank, and I feel like this was a very PG prank, which is great. We saw the bag, me and Renee both were like, ‘I wonder if we can fit inside this bag!’”
All three women appeared on that night’s episode of WWE SmackDown. Paige (SmackDown General Manager) and Young (interviewer) were involved in backstage segments, while Lynch defeated Billie Kay.
Two months after this video, Lynch turned against Charlotte Flair at WWE SummerSlam 2018, kick-starting her run as The Man character.
#4 Matt Bloom scared WWE Superstar Nikki Cross
Anyone who follows Matt Bloom on Instagram will know that he enjoys scaring WWE’s up-and-coming Superstars in his own office at the Performance Center.
As you can see in the video above, Bloom (fka Albert and Tensai in WWE) successfully scared Nikki Cross in a video in March 2019.
Bloom usually records Superstars from his desk as they make their way through his office door, which is often open. He then asks them to close the door, which has another person stood behind it.
On this occasion, Cross walked into his office and politely said, “Hi coach.”
She then closed the door and walked straight into another WWE NXT coach, Sara Amato, who screamed in her face.
Cross held her chest and shouted, “Oh Jesus!” as she walked to the other side of Bloom’s office.
The Scot had already left WWE NXT during this period of time. However, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was not uncommon for WWE Superstars to still train at the Performance Center.
#3 Sasha Banks scared her WWE colleagues
In August 2017, WWE promoted a new range of WWE Zombie action figures by having Sasha Banks dress up as a zombie and scare people backstage.
The same person who created The Fiend’s mask, Tom Savini, worked on Banks’ zombie look.
The Boss walked around the backstage area and tried to frighten the following WWE stars: The Big Show, Enzo Amore, Charly Caruso, Alicia Fox, Ariya Daivari, Matt Hardy, Jeff Hardy, Booker T, Michael Hayes, and Bayley.
Booker T (02:19 in the video above) and Bayley (02:45) were among the people who were genuinely scared when Banks suddenly appeared.
Towards the end of the video, Banks’ attempt to scare Bayley was set up in advance by a WWE production team member.
WWE’s cameras showed that Bayley was told to walk into a specific room. As she approached the door, Banks jumped up and yelled in her face.
WWE also released another video which showed Banks wearing the full zombie makeup as she made her usual entrance before an episode of WWE RAW.
#2 The Undertaker scared WWE Superstar Seth Rollins
Unlike the other WWE Superstars in this article, there is not one particular moment involving The Undertaker that scared Seth Rollins backstage in WWE.
Rollins appeared on an episode of The Bump before WWE Hell in a Cell 2020. He revealed during the interview that he tends to feel terrified every time he has an awkward conversation with The Undertaker at WWE shows.
“They’ve always been super awkward, mostly because he’s terrifying. I don’t know if any of you have sat with him, but he’s just a normal Southern boy, but he’s still The Undertaker.” [H/T talkSPORT]
Rollins went on to say that he cannot act like a four-year-old Undertaker fan when he speaks to the man behind the character, Mark Calaway.
He also finds it difficult not to be scared by his WWE colleague, even to this day.
“To be able to have conversations with him, to be able to be in the ring with him, work with him, learn from him, is incredible. Anytime you get 30 years in one industry, you know, you’re a master classman. Yeah, I wish I had fun experiences with ‘Taker, but I’ve always been afraid of him.”
Rollins’ only match against The Undertaker came on the April 22, 2013 episode of WWE RAW when The Shield defeated ‘Taker and Team Hell No.
#1 Matt Bloom scared former WWE Superstar Kairi Sane
Kairi Sane is widely regarded as one of the best Superstars in WWE NXT history.
The Japanese Superstar began her WWE career by winning the 2017 WWE Mae Young Classic tournament. She then claimed the Female Competitor of the Year and Overall Competitor of the Year awards in the 2018 WWE NXT Year-End Awards.
Unfortunately, no amount of success can prevent someone from receiving a scare from Matt Bloom in the WWE NXT coach’s office.
In another scare video from Bloom’s Instagram account, he frightened Sane so much that she ended up on his office floor.
As you can see above, Bloom used his usual technique of leaving his office door wide open. He then asked Sane to close the door after she stepped foot in his office.
This time, the unknown person behind the door decided to film the video. When Sane turned around, she screamed and fell to the floor after realizing that someone else was behind the door.
Bloom has not shared any Instagram scare videos since April 2019, so it is possible that he no longer pulls this trick on PC recruits.
