10 Terrible Wrestling Storylines With Great Matches
When life gives you lemons...
In wrestling, as in life, it's all about doing the best with the hand you've been dealt.
If the WWE creative team, for reasons unknown, decide that your character is best-served disavowing their legendary family heritage, instead becoming sweater-wearing, golf cart-driving Kerwin White, then there's really no point arguing*. All you can do is make sure you deliver your best work inside the ring.
Turning water into wine is a trick that many wrestlers lumbered with unfortunate scripts have had to pull off over the years, but seldom have they really got much credit. It's just seen as a given that they - as professionals - should be able to put on great matches, even when those matches represent the conclusion of dreadful storylines which we all hated.
That changes now, though, with 10 examples of terrible storylines that, for all their foibles, actually delivered great matches at their climax - occasions when wrestlers themselves have made good on the mission statement of entertaining the crowd, however determined the writers are to leave them bored and confused.
*Actually, Chavo perhaps could have put up more of a fight on that one.
10. Edge Vs. John Cena Vs. Big Show
Whilst it made sense for Edge to look for an equaliser in his efforts to stave off the threat of The Undetaker, it's probably fair to say that, on the whole The Rated-R Superstar's relationship with Vickie Guerrero was something we all could have done without.
It became weird mid-way through 2008 when Triple H shared with the world footage of the groom-to-be smooching wedding planner Alicia Fox, even weirder a few months later when Vickie took him back, and then just plain silly weeks before WrestleMania 25 when it emerged she had, in fact, been having an affair with Big Show the whole time.
That final reveal was essentially just made so that they could find a way of inserting John Cena into the World Heavyweight Title picture at the last minute (he blackmailed Vickie with the threat of exposing her secret to make it a triple threat match, only to then expose said secret anyway).
It was daft, in short, but watch the resulting matches in isolation and they're not bad. The WrestleMania triple threat - remembered chiefly for Cena lifting both his opponents simultaneously - was a whole load of fun, and the follow-up Last Man Standing bout at Backlash a veritable classic.