10 Wrestling Storylines Totally Different To How You Remember
1. The Peak Of The Hurt Business
How you remember it:
A serious main event proposition that elevated a rotten, synthetic landscape. They highlighted the grim, farcical lows of the early pandemic. Just look at them; embodying big fight legitimacy, technical artistry, dazzling workrate and world-class promo skills between each component, they held all the gold and hoisted the belts over expensive, chic suits. They looked the absolute b*llocks.
They *looked* the absolute b*llocks...
What it was actually like:
The Hurt Business could have been a great stable. They were only a great stable on paper. A great stable beats the sh*t out of babyfaces, cut killer promos over the corpses, assist in elevating babyfaces, and act as vehicle with which to push new stars. Sadly, none of these things happened. They worked matches with Apollo Crews for three consecutive months. That is no exaggeration. The feud was redundant even by WWE standards. Then, they turned face for a bit and feuded with RETRIBUTION.
It doesn't matter how great Lashley looked in a suit. Lashley evolved into a headline attraction despite the Hurt Business. This is quite literally true; the one time they could have functioned effectively as a stable - when Drew McIntyre challenged Lashley's supremacy ahead of WrestleMania 37 - Lashley fired them, out of nowhere, because he didn't need their help.
He subsequently offered a bounty to the 24/7 Title geeks, stipulating that whomever took Drew out would get a shot at his WWE Title at a later date.
Isn't...isn't that what a stable is for?
Not when the stable wasn't any good.
Shelton Benjamin and Cedric Alexander, in Lashley's mind and in WWE canon, were considered more useless than Akira Tozawa.