"For the crime of attempted murder, I'm giving you a 5% paycut"
"AWWWWWWWWW!"
Seriously though, pro wrestling is exempt from all sorts of assault and murder laws. This is common knowledge. We could spend an entire week drawing up a list of times where someone really should have been locked up for commiting a crime on national TV, but just ended up getting punished by being booked against the victim on PPV or something.
And no, that wasn't a Randy Orton joke.
And you can blame that logic on the Four Horsemen, since I'm watching the DVD right now...and specifically the scene where they assaulted Dusty Rhodes in a parking lot and broke his hand.