Over the years, there has been very silly execution of possibly serious storylines - the Katie Vick angle and Hornswoggle-McMahon immediately come to mind. There have always been memorable if not questionable storylines such as the Warrior succumbing to fear and Voodoo Priests. These storylines wound up being beautiful pieces of WrestleCrap. But the subject matter was indeed somewhat serious when you think about it.
But then there are the feuds and storylines that are completely ridiculous and should have never happened in the first place, but they did and the fans were all left scratching their heads about it.
10 Edge Vs. Booker T Over A Japanese Shampoo Commercial
Who has the better hair, Edge or Booker T? Several weeks of buildup went to this WrestleMania X8 showdown. A Japanese shampoo company wanted the Bookerman to be the spokesperson for their new shampoo. Until they eventually realized the golden locks of Edge were much better suited for their product. It all led up to a grand WrestleMania X8 match between the two. One fan felt the need to showcase to the world either how glorious or delirious this idea was (depending on your own opinion) when he held up a sign that said “they are fighting over shampoo.”
9 The Pirate Steals The Hitman’s Jacket
Nevermind the ring skills of the future PCO, Jean-Pierre Lafitte, which are pretty good. Of course, Bret Hart is Bret Hart. But with nothing to actually feud about, the Pirate acted like a pirate and snagged Bret Hart’s sunglasses that he used to give to one lucky fan every night.
Even more indignation was “suffered” when Lafitte took one of the Hitman’s iconic jackets (pirates love epaulettes, after all, it’s a known fact). In any event, the silly reason to have a match would culminate at In Your House 3: Triple Header, where The Hitman would make PCO tap out.
8 Repo Man’s Got A New Hat
After Demolition ran its course, Smash (Barry Darsow) found himself repackaged as The Repo Man. The gimmick made it easy for creating quick feuds and angles. After all, who wants to actually have their possessions repossessed? In early ‘93, apparently, The Macho Man was having a hard time making payments on one of his beautiful bejeweled Macho Cowboy Hats. That’s when The Repo Man came calling. He snagged the Macho Hat and angered Savage to no end. It led to a quick Raw match which saw The Macho Man victorious and once again wearing his wonderful hat.
7 Shane Douglas Can’t Perform
The latter days of WCW have always been fraught with all kinds of laughable reasons to cite for its demise. The endless amount of laughable “on a pole” matches was certainly one of the reasons. On the July 31, 2000, edition of Monday Nitro, there was a hard-fought Viagra On A Pole match between Billy Kidman and "The Franchise" Shane Douglas. But the reason for this match is even sillier than the match. Douglas was unable to perform at night with the buxom blond Torrie Wilson and was annoyed seemingly everyone knew it.
6 Terri Gets Ditched
While fans like to rip into WCW in regards to absurd storylines, let us all remember a time when Perry Saturn, one of the most dangerous and feared wrestlers on the planet used to hang out with a mop. He named the mop, Moppy, who was more than just a cleaning device, considering that he would go out for drinks with it. This was a mop that Saturn had an affinity for, somehow more of an affinity for than the voluptuous Terri Runnels. But thanks to Terri and Raven, the poor inanimate cleaning utensil met an untimely demise thanks to a wood chipper. Saturn was never the same.
5 “I Am The Tag Team Champion!”
Just because something is silly doesn’t mean it’s bad. Even if it starts bad, the charisma of performers is enough to carry a storyline through. Kane and Daniel Bryan were engaged in a heated rivalry that Raw GM only saw one in rectifying it, through counseling.
The two legends were able to make these ridiculous antics work and they only got better when it was time to hug it out. Once they won the tag titles, neither of them would allow the other to take credit for the team or even admit that there was a team, both shouting “I am the tag team champion!”
4 No Punches To The Face
Heading into SummerSlam 1992, Shawn Michaels was one of the up-and-coming Heels, strutting to the ring with The Sensational Sherri as his muse. Concurrently, Rick "The Model" Martel thrown a wink at Sherri and the two began a feud, but not necessarily over Sherri (it was only inferred, WWE was still early 90s PG). The two kept interfering in each other’s matches until it was decided that they would have a match at Wembley Stadium, but only with one caveat. Since both men were so pretty, Sherri had made them agree to not punch each other in the face.
3 Royal Rumble Posedown
While Ravishing Rick Rude was able to cull memorable matches out of The Ultimate Warrior for both the Intercontinental and WWE titles, their entire feud started over who had the best body. The two Superstars were definitely among the first that had more chiseled physiques than the typical barrel-chested strongman look of yesteryear. The posedown took place as part of the second-ever Royal Rumble and ended abruptly when Rude and Heenan blinded Warrior with baby oil and assaulted him with a weight pole.
2 Kanyon & Judy Kissing On A Forklift
At the first-ever New Blood Rising event, it was clear that WCW (or at the very least, Vince Russo) was grasping at straws to find something that would stick. So they stuck Buff Bagwell's mom, Judy, up on a forklift.
How did this angle come to be? Positively Chris Kanyon had developed a crush on Buff’s mom and was vying for her affections and was stalking her to get at Buff Bagwell.
1 Evad’s A Hulkamaniac
When Hulkamania first ran wild in WCW, he garnered a whole new set of fans that might have strictly been WCW fans. One of those fans was Dave Sullivan, or Evad - the brother of the Devil himself, the Taskmaster Kevin Sullivan. Sullivan was so jealous of his little brother’s newfound love for Hulk Hogan that he spent the next few years trying to destroy Hulkamania by forming The Faces Of Fear with Avalanche and The Butcher. When that trio flopped, he formed The Dungeon Of Doom. It’s all a pretty harsh and silly reaction to his brother being a Hulkamaniac.