10 Confusing Wrestling Moments That Nobody Understands

7. The Greatest Love Trapezium Ever

The horrible, horrible angle between Lana, Rusev, Dolph Ziggler and Summer Rae was tantamount to a car crash for all concerned. No one could quite figure out who was supposed to be getting over.

Lana had turned USA-loving babyface, thereby destroying everything about her character that had made her so popular until that point. Summer was once again cast as in the heelish gold digger/home wrecker role as Rusev's new girlfriend. Ziggler had been in a freefall for months, and despite being nominally a babyface was clearly playing a heel in the angle.

Rusev, supposedly the big bad villain of the four of them, came off the most sympathetic, both because the other three were clearly awful, awful people, and because the real-life Miroslav Barnyashev was the only one in the whole storyline who was trying to get it over, delivering the best promos of his career, even while performing injured. He was so good in the role that he actually made Summer herself seem like a babyface by association.

Of course, that was a problem as well, because Rusev and Summer were supposed to be the antagonists. That was the storyline but, as is so often is the case these days in WWE, the story being told didn't match up with the character beats being played out. The material they were being asked to deliver told an entirely different story, one where Rusev and Summer were being victimised by Ziggler and Lana.

Matters became even more hopelessly confused when the angle was abruptly terminated after a stray Instagram post revealed that CJ Lana Perry and Miroslav Rusev Barnyashev hadn't broken up at all, and were in fact engaged (in real life). Fans were horribly confused by the whole thing.

I've confused myself just typing this, if it helps...