10 Worst Wrestling Storylines Right Now
2. Roman Reigns Vs. Baron Corbin
Unopened canned dog food has an expiration date of two years. If this goddamn storyline extends to this Friday, and it will, it will feel longer than that.
It was rubbish. King Corbin taunted the Big Dog Roman Reigns by mocking his corporately imposed nickname. At no point did this get personal. Corbin created a tron video in which a dog barked weakly, as if the dog had no testicles. He then paraded a man in a dog mascot outfit to mock Roman. This was a big outfit for a "dog" whose testicles had shrunk to "tiny marbles", remember. WWE loves hiring little people for this sort of b*llocks, and they couldn't even get the psychology of their bullsh*t correct.
As the weeks and months passed, Corbin caked Reigns in dog food with his latest inexplicable gang of heel pals before wrestling him in two of the longest matches in recorded history. They gimmicked both, in a bid to make this programme halfway interesting, and it failed. At the Royal Rumble, after the show-long schmozz of TLC (!), Reigns defeated Corbin decisively before SmackDown's turnabout-is-fair-play dog food payback.
It was finished. It was awful, prop-heavy, tedious, repetitive rubbish, but it was finished...
...until WWE, institutionally lazy and craven, realised they had a Saudi show coming up and just up and continued to do it. This company hates you. And you love them.