10 WWE Stories We're Glad Got Cancelled | partsFUNknown
There sure were a lot of options to pick from for this list of WWE storylines we're actually glad got cancelled! Which were you happiest to not have happen? Let us know in the comments!
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00:00 Wrestling is a fluid business in multiple ways. I really don't want to talk about those
00:03 kind of fluids. Don't make me do it, Oli. Don't make me do it. What we mean is that
00:07 wrestling is built on one defining principle. The four best words in the English language
00:11 after Keith Lee recently divorced, those four words are "card subject to change". Wrestling
00:16 is scripted, I know we're surprised too, but those scripts are written on wet bread and
00:20 come apart even the slightest pressure from an insane septuagenarian and his crazy friends.
00:24 WWE has abruptly pulled the plug on a number of storylines in the past. Not going to talk
00:28 about the Vince McMahon death angle again, I just don't want to, but it feels like they're
00:31 more trigger happy than usual these days, with storylines like Big E's WWE Championship
00:35 Dreams, Shane McMahon's WrestleMania Dreams, Aleister Black's new character all being written
00:39 out of history with brutal severity. Normally it's a bad thing, but how about those times
00:43 WWE set fire to a storyline and it was actually a good thing? I'm Adam Hailing from PartsFun
00:48 Known and here are 10 WWE Stories We're Glad Got Canceled. And if you wouldn't like us
00:53 to get cancelled, lend us a subscribe. It's completely free, it really helps us in ways
00:57 you couldn't possibly imagine, and it's just nice to do. So if you haven't subscribed already,
01:02 why not? Why not?
01:03 10. Sonya vs Mandy, Hair vs Hair Feels weird to say that one of the most carefully
01:07 and patiently told stories of 2020 involved Otis gyrating so hard he could charge a battery
01:13 at the prospect of ham, cake, and Mandy Rhodes, but such is life. Boy meets ham, boy leaves
01:17 ham for girl, girl meets Dolph, girl's friend makes ham boy sad about girl and Dolph, girl
01:22 discovers deception, girl kisses ham, girl vs girl at SummerSlam, what was originally
01:26 booked for SummerSlam was a hair vs hair match, with treacherous Sonya Deville's locks slated
01:31 for the chop. However, the plans were hastily changed to a loser leaves WWE stipulation
01:35 with Deville losing, leaving, and the storyline hastily moving on. The reason why is actually
01:40 pretty sensitive on WWE's part. See, before SummerSlam, Sonya Deville suffered a horrific
01:45 real life home invasion that could have gone much worse than it did. After the traumatic
01:49 incident, WWE opted not to have Deville's head shaved during her recuperation and before
01:53 she'd have to appear in court. A good move all around.
01:57 9. Kevin Nash, Anonymous Raw General Manager
01:59 And speaking of good moves, someone who's incapable of any is Kevin Nash, a man who
02:03 excels at being big, sexy, big sexy, and rendering himself incapable of walking by walking.
02:09 Kevin Nash has been part of a number of hastily written plans in WWE history, his push as
02:13 face of the company got cancelled after 1995 happened, his feud with CM Punk post SummerSlam
02:18 2011 got cancelled after Nash got wellness ping for taking heart medication, but by far
02:22 the biggest cancelled plan involving former Diesel was revealed by former WWE writer Kevin
02:26 Ek that he was supposed to be the anonymous Raw General Manager. The reason he was anonymous
02:31 was that while he was doing his general managing, he was still signed with TNA at the time.
02:36 While some might like the idea of Dr. Nash, the X Division grooming silly persona from
02:40 Nash's TNA stint running WWE, it probably for the best that the angle just died on Hornswoggle
02:45 Mountain.
02:46 8. Ric Flair and Lacey Evans
02:48 What even was this? What was it though? Huh? Aside from it being a storyline that was
02:52 hated by literally everyone who was a part of it, for some reason, probably because Vince
02:56 so deeply hates his own children, and to be fair, sure, in early 2021 Ric Flair accidentally
03:02 turned on his daughter. During a tag match, Flair tripped Charlotte, which later came
03:07 out after the fact as apparently a shoot mistake, he was supposed to trip Peyton Royce. That's
03:11 weird, WWE seemingly leapt on this mistake by having Ric then turn on Charlie and siding
03:16 with Lacey Evans in a team up that was either mentor/mentee, surrogate father/surrogate
03:20 daughter, or sugar granddaddy/woman who just looks a whole lot like his daughter, depending
03:24 on who you ask. Fun and definitely not weird. The kibosh was put on the whole family squabble
03:29 when Evans left on maternity leave, which considering that Ric Flair shortly thereafter
03:32 heavily implied the kid was his, was yeah, kill it before it lays eggs. Ric Flair's
03:38 eggs.
03:39 7. Daniel Wyatt
03:40 2013 was an odd year. In some ways it was great, CM Punk vs Lesnar, and in some ways
03:44 it was bad, CM Punk vs Ryback. One of the highlights of the year was Daniel Bryan catching
03:48 fire as an organic, Zeitgeist capturing babyface and WWE doing everything they could to stamp
03:54 that fire out like a Guy Fawkes doll. They took the WWE Championship off Bryan not once
03:58 but twice, then began to feed him to the Wyatt Family before finally turning him heel and
04:02 allying Bryan with his tormentors. They did everything short of holding up big signs at
04:06 every Raw saying "Do not cheer the Daniel" written on them, but crowds wouldn't stop.
04:11 Originally Bryan was supposed to be a heel member of the Wyatt Family for months, but
04:14 after only a few weeks, so the story goes, Triple H himself petitioned for the Daniel
04:18 Wyatt storyline to be abruptly dropped, and it was during a cage match on Raw. Bryan shed
04:22 his Wyatt overalls and turned face again to one of the most thunderous and sustained ovations
04:27 in Raw history.
04:29 6. Million Dollar Man – WWE Champion
04:32 Feels bad to say it considering that Ted DiBiase was one of the best characters in the golden
04:36 era of wrestling, but thank God the Million Dollar Man didn't win the WWF Championship
04:39 at WrestleMania 4. That was the original plan. After months of trying to buy the title off
04:43 Hogan then Andre the evil multi-millionaire would finally get his solid gold toy by nefarious
04:48 means inside Trump Plaza, and no I won't be providing political commentary at this time.
04:51 However, a strange series of events put paid to that entire plan. See, current Intercontinental
04:56 Champion The Honky Tonk Man was scheduled to drop his title to newly face Randy Savage
05:00 at this event, but he refused. In the mad scramble to rearrange, Vince ended up pulling
05:04 the trigger on Randy Savage as World Champion instead of Millionaire Ted, creating a top
05:09 guy in Macho Man and so beginning the Mega Powers Explode storyline. One of the greatest
05:13 feuds in wrestling history. A true shame for Ted DiBiase, but what we ended up getting
05:18 was something far more priceless.
05:20 5. Undertaker vs The X-Men
05:22 Yes, as someone with as goofy a gimmick as Rich Uncle Daddy Bags, it's no surprise that
05:26 Taker's been on the receiving end of a bunch of hastily changed plans. He was apparently
05:30 going to appear at Elimination Chamber this year, but WWE scrapped it presumably out of
05:34 concern he was going to bring his new best friend Pitbull along. Sable was slated to
05:37 become Taker's dark bride in the Attitude Era, but the biggest and weirdest what if
05:42 was the Hayde Vanson storyline. If you don't know who that is, that makes you and Vince
05:46 McMahon both. In late 2008, WWE came up with a storyline featuring handsome Brit Hayde
05:50 Vanson, that he would be a Magneto-esque leader of a cult of jobbers with dark powers. He'd
05:56 throw these X-Men style mutants at Taker every week in the lead up to WrestleMania 25, where
06:01 he'd fight the dead man to try and become the new vessel for his essence. No homo. After
06:05 cutting one promo on Smackdown, the angle was immediately dropped when WWE realised
06:09 that Vanson was shorter than 6ft. Nice decision by nice guys. While this sounds like a missed
06:13 opportunity to do something interesting, and it is, probably best to remember that the
06:16 Mania match we got instead was Taker vs. HBK at Mania 25, so fair trade.
06:22 4. Sister Abigail He's got a f***ing doily on his head, that's
06:26 why. Blue Jesus, could WWE not have gone one day without rubbing their bare ass on Bray
06:30 Wyatt's hopes and dreams? Every single day following WrestleMania 30, with the brief
06:34 exceptions of Elimination Chamber 2017 and WrestleMania 36, WWE has held an internal
06:39 competition to see who could be the first to embarrass Bray Wyatt into early retirement.
06:43 In October 2017, they came so close, before Wyatt's own body saw their plans and thought
06:47 f*** that, choosing to lay him low with an infectious disease rather than let him become
06:51 air quotes "Sister Abigail". TLC 2017, and to combat Pumpkin Spice Finn Balor, Bray
06:57 would call upon his own Dark Passenger. Except his Dark Passenger was the ghost of an old
07:01 lady who died after getting tangled in her f***ing curtains, apparently. Look at this
07:05 stupid bollocks. Like a panda clown attending a panda clown funeral. Why did they do the
07:09 worst iMovie transition? Why did she sound like Alvin and the Chipmunks doing a high
07:13 school production of Midnight Mass? After Wyatt went down with mumps, Finn was slotted
07:17 in to face AJ Styles at TLC instead. They tore the house down. Sister stupid sheetface
07:22 was never mentioned again. 3. Batista - Foster child? Or worse?
07:26 So Vince had a weird childhood. That's not speculation. In a Playboy article, Vince himself
07:31 expressed genuine regret that his stepfather died before he could murder him. Such things
07:35 might have contributed towards, oh I don't know, Vince's pathological hatred of weakness,
07:39 his refusal to be called Vince Jr, him having a f***ing T-Rex skull in his office, and a
07:43 myriad of other weird familial kinks that make up the chairman of the board. I wonder
07:47 if that also explains the horrific backstory that Vince wanted for Batista, his next big
07:52 star. There are two versions of this story, neither of which show particularly Vince in
07:55 the best psychological light. The first would be that Batista would be angry all the time
07:59 because he was a foster child. Makes sense, adopted kids are all snarling lunatics, the
08:03 f***ing lot of them. That actually made it to air in one brief mention during a segment
08:06 of Ric Flair talking to Batista on Raw, though it was never brought up again. The original
08:10 plan, which Big Dave has spoken about himself, was that the reason Batista was going to be
08:14 constantly angry was that he was a child born of sexual assault. In Batista's own words
08:19 on Talk is Jericho, a rape child. Is wrestling a medium that's capable of dealing with
08:24 a storyline about horrific abuse? Maybe. Is WWE that company? Well, let's let the next
08:28 entry answer that question.
08:29 2. Scott Vic avenges his sister Katie
08:32 No. Basically, no is the answer. The Katie Vic storyline is widely regarded as the worst
08:37 storyline in the history of professional wrestling, mostly because it's about murder and necrophilia
08:41 being used to heat up a title unification match at a B-Paper view. But did you know
08:45 there was supposed to be more to the story? That the road to no mercy was a mere amused
08:49 douche compared to the WrestleMania main corpse that we could have had. See, the reason that
08:53 Katie Vic was called Katie Vic was that WWE had signed the man formerly known as Sick
08:57 Boy and Raven's Flock, Scott Vic. The original plan was for him to come to WWE to avenge
09:01 his air quote "dead sister Katie" by, if Tommy Dreamer is to be believed on his House
09:05 of Hardcore podcast, wrestling Triple H at WrestleMania. Imagine if Triple H's feud
09:10 going to WrestleMania 19 had been about desecrating a dead woman's memory. Much better that
09:14 it was about racism instead. It's just cleaner, isn't it?
09:17 1. Steph's incest baby
09:19 Vince McMahon's brain is the undiscovered country from whose born no traveler returns.
09:24 WWE have tried to make incest a thing on more than one occasion, but thankfully, like Fetch,
09:29 it has yet to happen. They tried to make Ken Shamrock have a thing with his sister Ryan
09:32 while Ken Shamrock's in real life son was also called Ryan, which is weird on top of
09:37 weird. They had Paul Burchill want to f*** his sister in the last gasp of the Ruthless
09:41 Aggression era before the company went PG and that was scrapped. Beaver Cleavage, remember
09:45 him? But the cherry on top of the familial sundae was Vince finding out that his daughter
09:48 was carrying one of his grandchildren and asked, in a creative meeting, "What if I
09:52 was the father?" Season finale for WWE Studios version of the What If series right there.
09:58 According to Bruce Prichard on his podcast, that's as far as the storyline went, an
10:01 initial question, but that's still pretty f***ing far, lad. Apparently the backup idea
10:06 that Shane should have been the father instead was just a joke, nothing more, and I think
10:09 we can all agree that's a very funny joke. It's important for families to laugh together,
10:13 otherwise they'll just cry and cry and cry.
10:17 And that's our list. What's your favourite weird WWE What If storyline? Let us know in
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