10 Desperate Moves WWE Made In A Panic Over Low Ratings

4. Katie Vick (2002)

In the fall of 2002, numerous attempts to raise ratings had failed and Vince McMahon was trying desperately to find the spark that would launch the next great wrestling boom. To do that, he reached deep down into his creative bag of tricks and pulled out the abomination that would forever burn the name "Katie Vick" into the minds of every fan who was ever exposed to the storyline. Setting a brand new, all time low precedent for indecency on WWE programming, then World Heavyweight champion appeared on an October episode of Monday Night Raw and implied that Kane was a murderer. No, implied isn't right. He came right out and called the Big Red Monster a killer, live on television. The following week he would reiterate, telling the story of Kane's old girlfriend Katie Vick, whom was killed in a car accident in which an inebriated Devil's Favorite Demon was the driver. Now, forgetting for a second all of the backstory that had been established years earlier, in which we were told Kane was kept penned up in a basement somewhere by father Paul Bearer, it is beyond belief that Kane would have been under the influence, killed a girl in an accident, and not been arrested for it. But that gap in logic was hardly the biggest problem with the story. That would come next, as Triple H then insinuated that Kane partook in necrophilia with the body of his love. It was a step to far, but one that the company eclipsed later when The Game sported a Kane mask and pretended to have sex with a dummy dressed as Vick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlpSsklsq2s It was an incredibly tasteless angle that was anything but entertaining. It insulted the intelligence of the fans and took things in a direction that the company never quite returned from. Still today, when fans discuss the absolute worst stories ever concocted by WWE Creative, Katie Vick takes the proverbial cake.