10 Terrible WWE Storylines One Tweak Away From Excellence
6. Who Ran Over Stone Cold Steve Austin? (2000)
Year 2000 WWE was an awful lot of fun until Stone Cold Steve Austin came back and attacked everybody where they stood in a "strike first/ask questions later" approach to finding out who hit him with a car year earlier.
The plot made enough sense in kayfabe of course - 'The Rattlesnake' would Stun folk for knocking back the offer of a beer let alone knocking him over in a parking lot, but just about everybody got to look at the lights for his celebrated finisher over a period of several weeks whittling away at the potential suspects.
He trampled on a lot of good stuff, basically, but WWE was doing it for the benefit of maximising the reveal. Sadly, the reveal had only done it for The Rock.
One Tweak: It just can't be Rikishi.
It just can't be.
Ignoring the needless sacrifice of a very, very over midcard babyface for an incredibly short-term story, it was clearly never the payoff Steve Austin wanted. Whether he had The Rock or Triple H or even Billy Gunn in mind as the dangerous driver, the former Headshrinker was not a man Stone Cold seemed thrilled to give much to in their generously-labelled blowoff. The story was almost salvaged by Triple H taking retconned responsibility, but much of the damage had already been done.