10 WWE Storylines That Made No Damn Sense In 2020
WWE really is the industry leader in storylines that don't make sense in the slightest.
2020 has been an unusual year, a fact repeated on a daily basis but a fact nonetheless. The pro wrestling world has had to deal with the chaos like everyone else, learning to book in the empty arena era and having no idea when things may get back to normal, if they ever will.
No amount of chaos makes nonsense okay.
You can blame the madness of 2020 for stars not getting over, for underwhelming shows and plans changing at the last minute, but you can't blame it for Lana not becoming the top babyface in the industry despite being put through a table week after week. How could such a plan fail?! WWE, you dumb.
There have been many creative missteps in 2020 but some missteps are more, erm, missteppy than others. If there is one thing that WWE excels at, it is storylines that make no damn sense whatsoever, creative decisions that leave fans and performers alike scratching their heads. Maybe they aren't supposed to make sense? Maybe they are intentionally illogical?
No, surely not. WWE has investors to think about, after all. This year has been filled with stupidity, to the point where the poisoning of Montez Ford doesn't get a look-in here. This is the bottom of the barrel, which is saying something.
10. Shayna Baszler: Vampire
Shayna Baszler made her long-awaited main roster debut proper on 11 February of this year. As expected, she made a statement on arrival by beating the tar out of then-WWE RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch, setting the wheels in motion for a big WrestleMania match. Everything went as expected, except for one thing that was completely out of the ordinary.
For some reason, the decision was made to book Shayna Baszler as a vampire.
I don't mean Baszler turned up in corpse paint with fangs and major garlic issues. I mean she drew blood from Becky's neck using her teeth. Shayna bit Becky's neck.
Fans were outraged. Second only to Asuka in terms of dominance in NXT, all WWE needed to do was book Baszler as all that she is, a legitimate bad-ass with credibility in spades. What was this vampire stuff about? Fans were fearful. A cursory glance at WWE's booking history shows they had every right to be.
Baszler eventually gave a bog-standard WWE explanation for biting The Man's neck and the whole thing was dropped. What? Baszler turns up as a vampire only to not actually be a vampire?
WWE really has no idea what to do with NXT stars.