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6. What's In Erick Rowan's Cage?
A few months back, Erick Rowan started carrying a cage to ringside after soothing whatever was or is inside of it with goo-goo noises.
It was and is ridiculous, but it wasn't not compelling in that it appealed to the most base of human curiosity. A mystery box ignites the imagination with cruel, cruel hope. The box! The box!
And so that's what fascinates us about Erick Rowan's forbidden cage of mystery.
The mystery intensified when the entity inside of it terrified Mojo Rawley into a fit of sorts, and it must be terrifying. Rawley hasn't pissed and moaned in subtweets over his wildly awful and fitful character arc, and yet, he was shaken to his core. He asked Rowan what the hell was wrong with him. Then, in subsequent weeks, some curious ham-and-eggers couldn't help themselves, attempted to take a peek, and had their foreheads ripped open for the trouble. The wee rodent thing also bit the hand that fed him.
We know that this entity can draw blood. We know should it be feared. We don't know why he's allowed to take it to ringside. We know it can't become his little rat pal and run interference, because that is preposterous.
The whole thing is preposterous. It's a naked keep-watching-guys initiative that cannot be paid off.