10 Most DEMENTED Wrestling Fantasy Booking Ideas Found Online
6. The Finn Bálor/Hideo Itami "Fed Bad" Storyline
There's often a seed of something to these deranged fantasy booking ideas.
What tends to happen is that someone with a limited and recently acquired knowledge of how wrestling works naively throws themselves online under the belief that they know everything. We've all been there. It's a rite of passage. Some, like your writer, thought Tajiri should have been WWE Champion in 2001.
Others...
The seed here is that WWE often, in the late 2000s and early 2010s, depicted independent and international stars as complete geeks who needed to be told how to work. A Reddit poster decided to over-correct this in the case of Finn Bálor and Hideo Itami.
Their idea was thus: Bálor and Itami immediately turned heel on the company, accusing WWE of stealing everything from the Japanese scene, and left it on the very night they debuted. They were lured back, but only if they were allowed to wrestle only one another over and over again until they headlined WrestleMania 32. Against one another.
It would still be message board-pilled, were Bálor and Itami to have teamed up against established WWE "guys". The Summer of Punk happened (or rather didn't). People should know that WWE is not interested in that sort of storytelling. And it all ending in a match between two heels that the audience has zero interest in?
What was this: the original plan for the WrestleMania XXX main event?