10 Worst Romance Angles In WWE History
What's love got to do with it?
In an industry that’s supposed to simulate hard-hitting combat, romance storylines have always seemed a little out of place. Wrestling love-ins aren’t like romance subplots we see in films or on standard dramatic television, wherein the bond shared between two or more characters can be a driving force for the plot – when it comes to WWE, this stuff just tends to get in the way of more engrossing narratives elsewhere.
It might sound strange, but most fans are probably more willing to suspend their disbelief for Wyatt lightning or The Boogeyman than they are for whatever the Dolph/Lana/Summer/Rusev angle of 2015 was supposed to be. When you give it more than a few minutes of thought, it just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense that a woman would upend or redirect her entire love life purely on the basis on a wrestling match.
While we might look back on couples like Miss Elizabeth and Randy Savage fondly and with teary eyes, the vast majority of amorous wrestling pairings have been about as lifeless and convincing as a blow up doll...
10. Noam Dar, Cedric Alexander And Alicia Fox
In fairness to Dar, Alexander and Fox, all three players managed to make half-decent lemonade out of this mouldy batch of lemons. The Cruiserweight Division initially seemed like an opportunity to tell fresh stories about hardened combatants battling for in-ring supremacy, but this angle felt like an also-ran from an early 2000s episode of Heat.
After impressing as a solo performer, Cedric Alexander began flirting with Alicia Fox backstage, and the two formed an alliance. Unwilling to watch an attractive woman accompanying another man to the ring, Noam Dar casually and shamelessly announced his intentions to steal Cedric Alexander’s girlfriend: “Look chick, you’re the real prize. And Foxy baby… all I want for Christmas is you.”
The angle did make Noam Dar look like a million Scottish pounds as the ultimate sleaze ball, particularly whenever he over pronounced Alicia Fo(ooooooo)x. But it also made Alexander look like a weak and somewhat gullible fool. Alicia Fox meanwhile came off as heartless and fickle. She was standing there the whole time while Dar labelled her as a prize, literally objectifying her, yet she was more than happy to jump into his arms once she was dumped by Cedric.
Still, at least we’ll always have Alicia Fox screeching “CEDRIC” so loud that she peaked WWE’s backstage microphones.