10 Ditched Wrestling Storylines That Thankfully Never Happened

The wrestling business has seen its fair share of utterly insane storylines over the decades.

Never forget, this is the industry where burned alive brothers have returned to exact revenge on their siblings, people have given birth to hands, and some performers have even had their eyes squeezed out of their heads during a particularly heated rivalry.

But for every utterly barmy wrestling storyline that does somehow make it through the pitching stage and onto weekly television, there are countless other even more ridiculous ideas that thankfully never saw the light of day.

Just because they didn't ultimately get given the all-important green light from the folks calling the shots, though, doesn't make each of the following mercifully ditched ideas any less fascinating to behold.

If nothing else, all of these outrageous denied pitches highlight just how entirely deranged some of the minds within this absurd industry can be when given the chance to explore a new direction for either their own or someone else's character.

So, from frozen Nazi soldiers wandering into the world of sports entertainment, to silly attacks on the maternity ward, these are those odd wrestling storylines that fans luckily never had to experience on their screens.

Disgraced Executive WWE Chairman Vince McMahon has booked some of the most absurd and uncomfortable storylines ever to appear in the world of pro wrestling - and he's appeared in most of them!

But while the likes of Vinnie Mac forcing Trish Stratus to bark like a dog and ultimately fighting his own daughter did unfortunately become a very disturbing thing at various points in time, another strange/excruciating McMahon storyline thankfully didn't get past the discussion stage.

That's according to former WWE writer Brian Gewirtz, who noted in response to a report last year on WWE "discussing" The Rock winning the 2023 Royal Rumble before challenging his cousin for the belt that a number of bizarre ideas had also been "discussed" during his time with the company.

Things “discussed” in my time at wwe:

Vince having midlife crisis, growing beard, wearing Hawaiian shirts and singing Black Eyed Peas songs Kaval being Undertakers secret long lost sonCena losing to Bray Wyatt via singing possessed child… wait, that one actually happened https://t.co/yIhViHlWtc

— Brian Gewirtz (@bfg728) December 3, 2022

Along with Kaval being revealed to be The Undertaker's secret long lost baby boy, Gewirtz also mentioned how the idea of Vince dealing with a midlife crisis that would have consisted of him growing out a beard, donning Hawaiian shirts, and even warbling along to the Black Eyed Peas was once talked about backstage, too.

Just take a moment to visualise that image.

Fast forward a few years, and the fact Vince appears to be dealing with his three-quarter-life-crisis by sprouting that upper-lip monstrosity suddenly makes a little more sense.