8 Weirdest WWE Romances Ever

4. Dawn Marie & Al Wilson

Mae Young Mark Henry Royal Rumble 2000
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Well then. I'm not entirely sure how this one started exactly, although I am pretty sure it had something to do with Al Wilson just hanging around backstage and getting involved in one of the weirdest WWE stroylines ever by the powers of sports entertainment osmosis.

Al's daughter Torrie was engaged in a feud with Dawn Maire and, in a bid to get back at her rival, Dawn seduced her father. Even though this is all make-believe, Torrie can't have been fond of watching her co-worker and the man who raised her necking on in the showers. Stranger still, Dawn was buck naked while Al was fully-clothed.

Mr. Wilson proposed to Dawn and the marriage was on! Only, Al wasn't the only one Dawn had her sights on. Oh no, she also wanted a piece of Al's daughter. It was never properly explained why, so just assume that it's because every female performer from this era was an irrational quasi-lesbian. It's easier that way.

Dawn agreed to call off the wedding if Torrie spent the night with her in the hotel (all of this was a cheap stunt to get more people to buy Armageddon on pay-per-view, with the promise of some raunchy stuff between the divas lingering in the air). Torrie did spend the night but, to the surprise of nobody, Dawn reneged on her promise and the wedding went ahead as planned.

With the duo tying the knot in their underwear, natch.

The punchline to this months-long, painfully unfunny joke? Dawn literally shagged poor Al to death on their honeymoon, setting up the first-ever Stepmother versus Stepdaughter match at the Royal Rumble.

Al was a terrible actor because he wasn't an actor. Dawn and Torrie were hardly better, with Wilson in particular rather laughable when trying to sell the emotion of her papa's sex-induced demise. There were a lot of great things about Smackdown in late 2002, but this sure as hell wasn't one of them.

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