10 Wrestling Heel Turns That Made No Sense Whatsoever

4. The Nation Of Violence Gets Paid Off

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Get ready to scratch your heads.

In 2009, Samoa Joe returned to TNA and vowed to introduce the Main Event Mafia to what he called his 'nation of violence'. A bizarre sequence of events followed, the low point of which saw Joe kidnap Sheik Abdul Bashir and hang him upside down in the locker room.

Joe and his team battled the Main Event Mafia at Lethal Lockdown, and he continued to work his way through the stable one by one. Slammiversary was the next big show, and in an utterly preposterous move Samoa Joe allowed Kurt Angle to win the King of the Mountain match, quite literally handing Angle the title at the top of the ladder.

It was then revealed that Joe had been bought off by the mafia, and that the scheme had been in motion for a while. All of this didn't explain Joe taking out members of the group, nor his beatdowns of Angle in the Slammiversary match itself. The explanation was that these happened to 'throw people off'.

None of it made sense, none of it at all.

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