10 Wrestlers With The Worst Motivations

Some people will start a fight for the most pathetic of reasons.

by John Bills
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The amount of creativity required to logically book a pro wrestling show is vast. Heck, the amount of creativity required to book a pro wrestling show with logic thrown out the window is almost as vast. This is a storyline-driven industry where all beefs must end up with two people pretending to fight in a squared circle. Yes, wrestling is a soap opera, but it is a soap opera with clearly defined creative boundaries. Working within those is difficult.

Which makes it all the more impressive that writers continue to come up with fresh ways to get competitors into the ring. That being said, history is littered with strange ideas and nonsensical decisions, reasons for feuds, heel turns and characters that are as preposterous as they are bad, as offensive as they are ridiculous.

Whether it is passive-aggressive pettiness leading to career-killing gimmicks or two men fighting for reasons that couldn’t possibly make sense, wrestling is full of weird motivations that make Finlay’s love of fighting seem positively Hegelian.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.