10 Wrestlers With The Worst Motivations
Some people will start a fight for the most pathetic of reasons.
The amount of creativity required to logically book a pro wrestling show is vast. Heck, the amount of creativity required to book a pro wrestling show with logic thrown out the window is almost as vast. This is a storyline-driven industry where all beefs must end up with two people pretending to fight in a squared circle. Yes, wrestling is a soap opera, but it is a soap opera with clearly defined creative boundaries. Working within those is difficult.
Which makes it all the more impressive that writers continue to come up with fresh ways to get competitors into the ring. That being said, history is littered with strange ideas and nonsensical decisions, reasons for feuds, heel turns and characters that are as preposterous as they are bad, as offensive as they are ridiculous.
Whether it is passive-aggressive pettiness leading to career-killing gimmicks or two men fighting for reasons that couldn’t possibly make sense, wrestling is full of weird motivations that make Finlay’s love of fighting seem positively Hegelian.