10 WWE Fates Worse Than Death

What was the deal with Erick Rowan's pet (and possibly robotic) spider back in 2020? That pre-pandemic storyline was squashed (literally) before he could even really get going with it, but that's likely because the whole thing was stupid to begin with. WWE set up a mystery angle for the ex-Wyatt Family man without having any clue how it'd shake out.

This was typical latter-day Vince McMahon nonsense. The old boss might well have said, 'Ah, we'll figure it out pal!' when asked what the end goal for Erick's 'carry this around in a cage' gimmick was. 'Figure it out' translated to, 'Stop asking questions I don't have the answer to - I know this is silly, but I want to do it anyway because I'm running out of ideas for Raw'.

Rowan eventually clued everybody in that he was carting around a big robot-looking arachnid on the 2 March episode of Raw. Exactly a week later, Drew McIntyre grabbed the cage and squished the spider inside it on the 9 March edition. So, the real suffering here came for poor Erick. That spider was his only friend in the whole world, and some big angry Scotsman had just mauled it for no good reason.

What a jobby. Right, enough of that. Verging on, "JBL Is Poopy" or "Fudge, Baloney, Mustard" territory here.

Rowan's love affair with little (little?!) spidey was crushed in the blink of an eye. He had to be heartbroken. Not as heartbroken as he'd be when the heartless gits at WWE released him due to budget cuts the next month.