10 Terrible Wrestling Moments (That Were Almost Even Worse)
1. What Was Really Meant To Be In Erick Rowan's Cage
Back in 2019, an even weirder year in WWE than 2020, somehow, Erick Rowan took to carrying a cage cloaked by a burlap sack to the ring.
Inspired, for some reason, by Bad News Brown's sewer rats, that was indeed the original plan. Then, as they so often do, plans changed: the rat became a goofy animatronic spider with, if you look closely, a very happy expression. Mojo Rawley sold for this f*cking thing in terror. The lil' guy looked like he was vibing in that cage. You'd have high-fived the dude if anything. Look at that face!:
It looked more like a 16-bit platform game mascot than anything else. It was bad. So-bad-it's-good, but still very bad. It looked so bad in fact that when Drew McIntyre killed the poor f*cker, it scanned as a comedy spot.
The original death scene wasn't set to be played for laughs; in a not-so so-bad-it's-good angle, as revealed to Wrestle Buddy, Rollins was going to accidentally kill what was meant to be an oversized rat, presumably by a mistimed curb stomp. That's the sort of pitch-black accidental comedy at which WWE excels.
Rowan's grief was meant to fuel his...heel vengeance, and the crowd was meant to get behind reckless killer babyface Seth Rollins.