10 Best Wrestling Storylines Of 2018

10. Samoa Joe Terrorises The Styles Family

In the hands of the wrong performer, the massive prop bedtime story book Samoa Joe clung to as he threatened AJ Styles' children with the dismemberment of their Dad would have been "worst" list fodder from the company best at producing it. But WWE are also, on occasion, brilliant at the daft b*llocks too. And the 'Samoan Submission Machine' is so good at that that he somehow made the silly sound sinister and very, very serious.

'The Phenomenal One' was well beaten before his matches with his former TNA frenemy, which in turn served to reflect just how good he was when the bell rang to work through the wounds Joe had ripped open.

Lurking at every corner like the monster he was morphing into, Joe was always ready with a cutting assault that targeted AJ (and sometimes Wendy and the kids) where it hurt most - Styles' own insecurities as a husband and father. Was he so good because of his beloved family, or in spite of them?

His tactics criminally didn't deliver the WWE Championship to his door, but served AJ the stature-enhancing programme he desperately needed after disappointing disputes earlier in the year.