10 Most Ridiculous Wrestling Feuds
Dungeons, deities, and dilapidated boats.
Professional wrestling is inherently absurd.
Simulated combat permeated with moves and stunts that'd be impossible or ineffective in a real fight is a daft enough concept as it is, but the sport's most ridiculous moments often come away from the ring. We accept this to a certain degree. Wrestling is calibrated to generate drama, and in most cases, a few strands of reality must be sacrificed in order to do that. There's a reason WWE's soap opera yarns and NJPW's big theatre spectacle rule the modern wrestling landscape, and the old Japanese shoot style promotions have died out.
But there needs to be a balance. Bookers and writers often go too far in the pursuit of drama, creating feuds and storylines that alienate traditionalists, break the audience's immersion, or in the rarest of cases, catch lightning in a bottle and create accidental magic.
Many of the rivalries within fell on their backsides, becoming bastions of hilarity and embarrassment that still stand today. Others captured fans' imaginations in totally unexpected ways. Regardless, they're all objectively ridiculous, and so far removed from Bruno Sammartino vs. Larry Zbyszko they may as well be of a different universe...
10. Perry Saturn Vs. Raven & Terri Runnels
Perry Saturn was lumbered with the dreadful Moppy gimmick as punishment for legitimately shooting on jobber Mike Bell during a squash match gone wrong in 2001. Portrayed as an imbecile, he became infatuated with the prop and took to babbling like a maniac, which, we were told, was because of a kayfabe concussion. The fans were surprisingly into it, but Saturn's girlfriend, Terri Runnels, was not, eventually issuing the former European Champion with an ultimatum: "it's me or Moppy."
When Perry chose the mop, Terri sought revenge by siding with Raven. Thus followed a daft angle in which the new couple fed Saturn's beloved to a woodchipper. It was a harmless segment (well, except for Moppy), but every bit as ridiculous as it sounds, even for the time period.
Saturn won the feud by defeating Raven at Unforgiven 2001. He dropped the goofy persona thereafter, but his WWE career was winding down, and he was released by November 2002. Though his role in the Radicalz remains his defining legacy in the company, it's a shame that this mess was his run's last notable feud.