10 Wrestling Storylines That Vanished Without A Trace
8. Dusty Rhodes' Kiss Of Death
It's not just WWE that have had their fair share of stories that went nowhere. In 1988, Jim Crockett Promotions started an angle that could've added an interesting element to perennial hero Dusty Rhodes if it hadn't go awry.
On an unassuming airing of the show, Larry Zbyszko's valet Baby Doll hand-delivered Rhodes a mysterious envelope, threatening the American Dream with blackmail in exchange for a United States title shot. To close things off, Baby Doll took Dusty by the chin and pecked him on the cheek. This was apparently meant to symbolise a "kiss of death" for Dusty's career.
By some stroke of hilarious irony, it was this kiss that allegedly brought down not Dusty Rhodes, but the angle instead.
So the story goes, according to Zbyszko, that Baby Doll made the choice to kiss Dusty on the cheek rather than the lips as originally pitched. Incensed by what they viewed as insubordination, Crockett and Rhodes fired Baby Doll on the spot. The valet tells it differently, saying she was fired for a "conflict of interest" after her husband, fellow Crockett star Sam Houston, got hired by WWE.
Because of this, the story was dropped and it looked on-screen as though Zbyszko had issued an empty threat.