Every Wrestling DEATH Ranked By Stupidity
4. Erick Rowan's Spider Gets Squashed (WWE)
"They've got a Spider-Baby".
Those words spewed by Father Dougal McGuire in beloved hit comedy Father Ted described a travelling fun fare coming to Craggy Island. That travelling fun fare likely had nothing on WWE's Raw adventures in 2019-2020, but McGuire was thrilled by the prospect of a monstrosity "with the body of a spider and the mind/head of a baby" nonetheless.
His head might've exploded had he clapped eyes on Vince McMahon's creative in late-2019. In November that year, former Wyatt Family man and Daniel Bryan disciple Erick Rowan began carting around a big cage with a cloth tossed over the top of it. Nobody really knew where the story was going, and that included WWE's writing team. They were making this nonsense up as they went along.
Eventually, on the 2 March 2020 Raw, Rowan revealed that his pet creature was a...giant spider. It was literally the worst-looking mechanical spider monster money could buy. If WWE weren't going out of their way to make this crap, then they were about to pretend that was the case.
Exactly one week later on the flagship, Drew McIntyre squashed the thing to death with the steel steps. That was that. Erick's spider creation was no more, and then McIntyre marched his way onto the weirdest WrestleMania ever to become WWE Champion. To recap, he won the Royal Rumble, bagged the WWE Title at 'Mania and spared everybody more of this tripe all in one year.
What a guy, what a hero, what a...murderer?! It's actually a slight surprise that Drew didn't use a big Claymore sword to finish the job instead (complete with swishing sound effect).