10 Worst Reasons Wrestling Feuds Started
They are fighting over shampoo!
Attacked from behind by Natalya during her promo at Elimination Chamber, an off-balance Nikki Bella collided with the horrified Maryse and sent make-up powder flying everywhere. Now, it looks like Maryse and The Miz will team up to face Nikki and John Cena in inter-gender tag action at WrestleMania. In other words, WWE used the Natalya vs. Bella fracas to kickstart a new rivalry between Nikki and Maryse, using makeup as the link between feuds.
Therein lies the problem; accidentally spilling makeup on Maryse is a truly tame way to build towards a match on the biggest show of the year. Over the years, other rivalries have started due to similarly innocuous accidents; it’s like the creative team feel simply feuding over who is the better wrestler isn’t quite enough, which is why outside of the box thinking has become so prevalent.
Custody of young children, invites to parties that aren't forthcoming and stolen action figures have all resulted in wrestling feuds, and it never works out well.
Worse, there are even those who have clashed over supposedly lucrative commercials and spilled cups of coffee.
Let's take a look at 10 of the absolute worst reasons wrestling feuds started...
10. Eddie Guerrero & Rey Mysterio Battle For Custody Of Dominic
Eddie Guerrero and Rey Mysterio could be considered the kind of pro wrestlers who were best-served by just putting them in a ring and letting them do their thing. Case in point, a match between the pair at WCW's Halloween Havoc 1997 pay-per-view is still being talked about today. WWE, however, viewed things somewhat differently.
For the purpose of a 2005 feud between both men, Guerrero was the villain of the piece. Previously, Eddie and Rey had worked well as tag-team partners, but they were split up in time for the race towards SummerSlam. There, the pair would meet in a Ladder Match, but it wasn't a title belt dangling above the ring.
No, it was custody of Rey's son Dominic that the world class performers were fighting for. That's right, Guerrero claimed he had a secret Mysterio didn't want anyone to know, dropping the bombshell that Dominic was actually his biological son.
This was crudely shoe-horned into the situation just so Mysterio and Guerrero could have a Ladder Match at SummerSlam. It was pretty distasteful, taking away from the actual talent of the tandem. Although Latino Heat has to take some of the flak from this, since it was his idea to introduce the soap opera element originally.