10 Wrestlers That Knew They Were Saying Something Stupid As They Said It
1. AJ Styles Creates The Boneyard Match
This isn't WWE's fault. But they've had this sort of thing in their locker for years.
AJ Styles is wrestling The Undertaker at not-quite-WrestleMania, and in promos before the company begun operating almost exclusively from the empty Performance Center the deal was that he wanted to end what remained of the legend of 'The Deadman'. To expose the mythology and bury him deeper beyond the graves or coffins he's been thrown into in various other gimmick matches over the decades.
It's an Undertaker programme. It's deathy. And the optics aren't good around that at the moment.
The mind flashes back to that unlisted "Work For WWE" in which a bunch of ex-sitcom scribes thrashed about a bunch of nothing for a product they'd never seen before. The whiteboards in the background told better stories than the writers themselves. Zany brainstorming stuff that wouldn't ordinarily make it out of those four walls.
These are not ordinary times. The feud and match required one of those 'Taker-style stipulations, not least because of the bloody-minded insistence of Vince McMahon that the show go ahead in the first place, and at some point, "boneyard" somehow moved from corny to confirmed.