10 Worst WWE Origin Stories

The most plausible explanation for someone trying to become a WWE superstar is that they caught the wrestling bug as a child and then signed up for their local grappling school with the dream of one day performing in a ring owned by Vince McMahon.

But Monday Night Raw would be a pretty boring place if all of its cast openly admitted that in front of the cameras. To produce a compelling TV show, you need characters driven by more than just the generic desire to win matches and titles.

That's why many of them instead have long-winded origin stories, the most obvious example of which being Kane, a man who spent years training to become a professional wrestler with the express aim of avenging a fire caused by his brother when they were both kids.

Not all of them are that specific, of course. Some superstars, perhaps owing to a traumatic event from their past, simply have a general desire to inflict physical pain on their fellow man, and choose to channel it through legal means instead of just attacking people left and right on the street.

There's also those who belong to a downtrodden underclass, and are keen on becoming famous in order that they can disabuse the public of a widely-held stereotype (which is an enormously elaborate plan, and one that very seldom works in practice).

It's easy to forget Alicia Fox's dumb origin story given that she has now been on our screens for close to a decade, but it all comes flooding back once you see the video of her making out with Edge backstage.

Fox was introduced to the WWE audience as a wedding planner, tasked with presiding over the nuptials of the Rated-R Superstar and his fiancée-cum-general manager Vickie Guerrero, who had known each other about five minutes but were definitely madly in love.

This storyline was a little overly dramatic, but it served a purpose. After Vickie discovered that she was having an affair with Edge - courtesy of a video Triple H had generously gifted them at the reception - the relationship was promptly ended, leading both parties to (eventually) go their separate ways.

But then, a couple of months later, Fox decided that she was done with events planning and wanted in on the whole wrestling thing herself. Imagine if she did that with all of her clients, randomly switching from one profession to the next according to the vocation of the people who require her wedding expertise.