10 WWE Storylines That Horribly Backfired
It couldn't happen to a nicer angle. Not you, Kurt.
There are a lot of reasons that storylines angles, as the jargon has it in pro wrestling can go wrong, and sadly most of them are obvious from the drawing board. This is professional wrestling, after all: if one of the participants in a storyline gets hurt, theyll almost always work through it. The show must go on. No, when an angle goes bad or is poorly received, its usually because its been poorly conceived or executed. Maybe the crowd just isnt getting behind the babyface character because hes far too good at being a heel (thatll be the Miz, and his ill-fated anointing as Ric Flairs new protégé - and would it have killed him to practice the figure four a little more?) ; or hey, maybe its the other way around. Maybe the heel is being cheered over the fan favourite (as tends to happen with Cesaro because hes a tall, well-built, handsome, preternaturally strong guy who wrestles better than everyone else on the roster. You know, a natural babyface). Then there are the angles that are just so terrible that watching them unfold is like watching a motorway pile-up happening in slow motion. Say hi to your Katie Vicks, your anonymous General Managers, your Yetis and your fingerpokes of doom. Most storylines like that elicit confusion and a fervent desire to pretend that they never happened: well call them the Let Us Never Speak Of This Again stories. And then, occasionally, theres a little natural justice. A big push for someone wholly undeserving will finally be cut off; a terrible, pointless, offensive or just plain stupid storyline will receive such a backlash, or rebound so spectacularly on the people involved, that youd almost believe in a higher power (except Vince was the Higher Power, and we all know how that turned out. Urrgh). This article is dedicated to the storylines that have blown right up in the WWEs faces, like faulty grenades of shame. Crack open some nyah-nyah juice, and let's get our schadenfreude on.