Ranking Every Major Current Wrestling Storyline From Worst To Best

20. The Fiend Vs. Randy Orton

Fire only in the literal sense of the world, this is all so, so sh*t. And funny.

Even when analysed as a heightened supernatural tale that might be fun in a hokey sort of way, it invites total derision. There is no internal logic to itself, as best illustrated by Randy Orton claiming to have been "burnt to a crisp" and only suffering first-degree burns in the exact same promo a couple of weeks back.

The premise isn't awful - but why did Bray Wyatt wait so long to avenge the desecration of his sister's burial site? Isn't this what drove their WrestleMania 33 match four years ago? Isn’t...isn't Bray Wyatt his own sister, since he revealed himself as Abigail in his feud with Finn Bálor? Well, he does come from the backwoods.

Actually, no. The premise is awful.

The execution is worse. At TLC, in the Firefly Inferno match, the Fiend set the ThunderDome alight. This attempt at a cool visual opened up a rather vast plot hole: why didn't he simply set Orton on fire, thus A) winning the match and B) avoiding immolation?

This is all Very Bray Wyatt: aspirational cool visuals that don't make any sense when a tiny bit of critical thought is applied to them. All the gear, nae idea.

He was immolated, and his spirit appears to have inhabited Alexa Bliss, whose mind he was controlling anyway, so what's the f*cking point. Bliss enacted vengeance by throwing a fireball at Orton's face, which he covered up - aside from his new Sir Alex Ferguson nose - with a luchador mask.

It's sh*te, and it's going to be even more sh*te the next time somebody hits the Fiend with a superkick or something.

He can't die! What's a chinlock going to do?!