John Bradshaw Layfield's stupidly thought out actions to do the Nazi salute in Munich, Germany may not have been a major incident, more a poorly thought out attempt to get cheap heat.

Still, it has had some serious repercussions. CNBC - one of the channels he appeared on to give stock tips - had revoked his contract. It's also expected to cause bad light to be shed on both WWE and Layfield himself.

What could have been a minor incident could have been averted if a) Layfield had read the local laws where such an action is illegal and b) if he'd read Pure Dynamite, the autobiography of "Dynamite Kid" Tom Billington. Overall it's a biased book, but he relates the story of Keith Hart pulling a similar stunt, and never being invited back to Europe again.