10 WWE Angles That Backfired Spectacularly
He shoots... and it's wide.
A great many WWE storylines over the years have been bereft of any point. Without even thinking about it, there's the time Mark Henry fathered Mae Young's hand, Kane fighting his own doppelgänger, Natalya getting flatulence issues...
But though these examples were torturous for the viewers, they weren't necessarily harmful. They were just unsightly. Like a really big spot on the bridge of your nose that takes a few days to disappear. It's really annoying, but you're not going to see the doctor over it.
Then there are angles that have somehow managed to hit the sweet spot of being both pointless and harmful. Not only were they difficult to watch, but they were also disruptive or just plain unpleasant in some other way. They might have killed a once-promising wrestler's momentum, for example, or perhaps needlessly caused offence to sections of the audience.
They might even have resulted in some form of financial penalty for the company as a whole. After all, almost everything that happens inside the WWE ring has monetary implications, and if you get things too badly wrong, you could end up literally paying for it.
10. Kevin Nash's Text
2011's Summer of Punk wasn't without merit, but there is one thing that we probably could have done without: Kevin Nash coming out at SummerSlam and beating up at CM Punk on the instruction of a mystery text message.
In case you need a refresher on how this all wrapped itself up: it was later revealed that Nash had hijacked buddy Triple H's phone and sent the text to himself - something that is second only behind Hornswoggle being Raw GM on the list of terrible WWE reveals.
The main reason the angle backfired so spectacularly is because the company wildly overestimated the former New World Order member's ability to compete in the ring. Due to his lingering injury troubles, he was ultimately unable to have a pay-off match with Punk.
Not only that, but he ended up having a damp squib of a ladder bout against HHH instead, a couple of months after almost everyone had become bored of it all. It just a complete mess of a storyline from start to finish, and it helped precisely nobody.