The pro-wrestling landscape was very different just a few years ago, with promos and angles that the major companies simply wouldn't get away with today.
WWE's Attitude Era was obviously full of stuff it's hard to imagine even being considered these days (Katie Vick springs instantly to mind), but even when the shows went in a more PG-13 direction, certain things slipped through.
Back in 2011, Kharma, aka Awesome Kong, was part of a pregnancy angle, and several other female Superstars (Divas, at the time) surrounded her in the ring in order to berate the former TNA Women's Champion.
Nikki Bella asked Kharma if she was sure she was pregnant, and not just fat. It was a harsh, nasty insult, and Bella has now revealed that she regrets going with what was scripted for her to say.
“I remember when I had to cut a promo on [Awesome] Kong, before Brie and I had left for eleven months. And I just remember feeling like shit," she said during a recent appearance on Renee Paquette's podcast. "I went with what they said on paper; it was so wrong. And I talked to Kia [Stevens / Kong] before, Kia and I even talked after. It just didn’t feel good, and I didn’t like it. I was like, I don’t want cheap pops from the crowd anymore. Especially if it’s not approved by the women.”
“I could have said a lot more stuff on the mic to get these greater reactions; it was never worth it to me because we’re still telling stories, and that’s kind of how I left it the rest of my career. But then some of the stuff would be said to me on a hot mic, with not even realizing. I just remember being disappointed, like, okay, we just took five steps back. [We should have been] just tearing these barriers down, breaking them; which, we still shattered them. It just took even more work.”