10 Things You’ll Never See In WWE Again

5. Necrophilia

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'Hey, remember that time Triple H shagged a corpse? We should totally do that again' is not something that will ever be said in a WWE creative meeting. So foul was the whole Katie Vick saga that it's become a black mark against the kind of wonderful storytelling wrestling can throw up when it tries and doesn't lean on senseless controversy out of laziness.

That's what the Triple H vs. Kane feud in 2002 was, it was as lazy as it was offensive.

Rather than building a compelling narrative to explain why both men wanted to fight one another, WWE's creative braintrust came up with the idea of necrophilia and drunk-driving. This was the nadir of an era rippling with desperation to claw back lost ratings. It'll never happen again.

In some weird way, we should all be thankful the 'Wild Card Rule' is WWE's solution to the current malaise. If the climate now was the same as it was in '02, then we'd likely see Seth Rollins violate a mannequin just to raise the ire of his latest foe.

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