10 WWE Anomalies (That Were Super Weird)

Over the years in World Wrestling Entertainment, there's been a whole load of strange characters, storylines and matches. For those who don't follow the industry, maybe the entire thing is weird, but the fact remains that millions across the globe remain gripped by exactly what's going to happen each week on Monday Night Raw.

Pro wrestling is a phenomenon that can't really be explained for longer than a few minutes, before the non-fan's attention starts to divert and the person explaining just really wants to stop talking so they can go watch more wrestling.

Entire books have been written about all the rotten stuff that's happened in wrestling over the years, such as the excellent 'Wrestlecrap' read, not to mention the website of the same name. Sure, it's fun to look back at the rubbish stuff, but what about the plain odd?

There's been countless hours of programming in WWF/WWE history, so it only makes perfect sense that the writing staff would brain fart from time to time, right? These creations were fairly naff, for the most part, but there's something about the entries of this list that goes beyond simply being bad television. In short, just why did anyone think these ideas were good ones?

Starting off in relatively strange fashion, there was nothing especially wrong with the premise behind 'Shotgun Saturday Night', but it does stick out as an incredibly random idea from a company which was still largely gearing itself towards a younger audience. At the very least, the WWF of early-1997 was still quite cartoon-like in many ways, even if steps were being made to shake things up a little.

It's generally accepted that the 'Attitude Era' didn't start until much later, but Shotgun was one program - at least for a few weeks - that gave some indication over where Vince McMahon was interested in taking his product. Filmed in a nightclub, the program was initially a huge departure from everything else the promotion was presenting, and is thus a complete anomaly.

Eventually, Shotgun would become just another recap show with a few mid-card matches thrown in for good measure, but it was radical at first. There was far more of an adult theme to the program, something WWF fans had never seen in the promotion before.