CONVOLUTED | Wrestling's Most Confusing Storylines!

CONVOLUTED | Wrestling's Most Confusing Storylines!
Wrestling doesn’t have to be complicated. After all, no matter what storyline you’re telling, it’s usually going to come down to one person standing across a ring from another as they prepare for a fight. Of course, while places like Japan usually keep things simple when it comes to the story which gets us to that point, over in North America, the Sports Entertainment style has meant things often veer far more into soap opera territory. And while this can sometimes lead to some very entertaining angles, other times it can end with things getting so overwritten, no one even knows what’s going on anymore. But what are the biggest examples of this in action? Well, join us today as we take a deep dive into Convoluted: Wrestling’s Most Confusing Storylines.
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[@WRESTLEWITHANDY]

Thanks for watching, what should we cover in future videos? Also, make sure to drop a like to help get the video picked up by KZbin’s algorithm 💪🏻👊🏻🤘🏻

[@lesleywalker100]

Please do every wwe champ

[@paulcowlishaw]

Great video Andy.

[@1v1_Empire]

The Brie Bella story.

[@zemox2534]

How about the best masked wrestlers?

[@tivothetv6520]

Here's an idea: Ain't He Great: The Jeff Jarrett Story

[@UndergroundSkat2000]

I applaud you for actually being patient enough to count the number of times Big Show turned.

[@ZoeUsherr]

The Bray Wyatt character had so much more to give, rest in peace Windham Rotunda. Gone far too soon.❤️

[@solascriptura-e7t]

In bringing up Rusev and Lana: I'm surprised that you didn't mention the confusing angle/feud between him and Lashley; or, the other confusing and uninteresting feud between Naomi and Mandy Rose Uso ( because Mandy Rose was creeping with him).

[@kiefboss1729]

Don't forget, somehow Liv got involved

[@brettrossi034]

Bray Wyatt's burnt mask looked like when you don't wait long enough for cheese to set on pizza and decide to pick a slice from the pie anyway and the cheese is falling off the sides

[@cdk]

that papa shango / ultimate warrior shit totally worked on me as a kid, one of my standout memories of wwf from that time.

[@williamballard767]

The second I read “the most confusing storylines” I immediately thought of the fan poster that read “they’re fighting over a shampoo commercial!”

[@ceriphillipstalks5091]

even though vince russo was not involved in the mae young storyline, I still blame him for it. The fool of a man.

[@SirJoelsuf1]

Honestly, anyone who dislikes what Russo did in 1999-2000 has to also throw shade at Heyman's booking as well. Go ahead and watch the wild storylines in mid 1990s ECW and tell me that some of em aren't just as bad as WCW five years later.

[@luisg.9975]

I remember that, as a kid, I saw Val Venis just about to be castrated by Kaientai at the end of a Raw show. That was a very confusing storyline for me back then.

[@honestdave]

Especially when John Wayne Bobbitt randomly showed up to save him.

[@wytemanfrmtwn9363]

He smashed his wife and got his peepee choppy choppied . What’s not to understand

[@thenofilterchannel8247]

Rest in peace Jay Briscoe

[@fingersTitan]

What makes it worse is that he, unlike 90% of todays wrestlers, cared about and loved the business.. I hope they do him the justice he deserved. Waiting on Jimmy C's upload. He loved those guys. A sad day for wrestling.

[@paulcowlishaw]

Who

[@G4productionz]

LOOKING BACK IN HIMDSIGHT THAT RAKISHI ROCK STORYLINE IS THE MOST LONG TERM STORY TELLING WWE HAS EVER DID HE DID FOR THE ROCK !! BECAUSE THE ROCK IS HIS NEPHEW AND HAS TO BE A BIGGER STAR THAN AUSTIN IT MADE PERFECT SENSE NOW LOOK AT THERE BLOODLINE 20 Years later ITS ALL REALLY ONE STORY

[@G4productionz]

RAKISHI ROCK STORYLINE WAS BLOODLINE STORYLINE WITHOUT THE DETAILS

[@G4productionz]

Triple H FUCKED UP THE STORYLINE TRIPLE H SHCKS

[@MrCromocrunch]

I still am disappointed that Jericho wasn’t in the 2000 4 corners match.

[@tims4502]

Mae Young and the hand. Seems like they missed an opportunity for Al Snow and Head. “It’s coming, I can see the head, wait a second” doc pulls out Head

[@jacksharkey2696]

This reminds me of something Paul Heyman said at an Inside the Ropes live show. All you need to do is ask yourself three questions: Who are these two wrestlers? Why are they fighting? Why should I care enough to watch? If you can answer all three questions, you've got yourself a wrestling angle

[@ninoz5112]

Video Idea : Best Heel/Face Turn In Wrestling

[@CABNoLimit]

NWO Hogan

[@k-lee481]

Thanks for the new video, Andy! Storylines can be very confusing at times when being written wrong 💪🏻🔥🇵🇷 Edit Comment: Also RIP to Jay Briscoe 😔

[@matunusdonnerhammer3423]

Somehow it would have been fun, if Kevin Nash played Fake Kane as revenge for Glenn Jabobs' fake Diesel.

[@kitdyson9468]

Don't forget the hand returned at Wrestlemania 38

[@DbpLukcy]

I like the fiend burned alive thing it was a dope visual and the storyline is what got me back watching wwe

[@yomanrich3]

I just remember being in middle school in 2000, talking with other friends about Triple H clearly running Austin over. Imagine our surprise when they said it was Rikishi because he wanted the Rock to get over because the WWF was keeping Samoans down. This coming after the Rock, who’s half-Samoan, being a multiple time champion and second biggest face in the company.

[@DaileyShorts]

RIP JAMIN PUGH. AKA JAY BRISCOE. ROH legend, best ROH champ ever

[@BlakeC27]

The match between The Rock and HHH at Backlash is one of my favourites. Easily should have been the main event at Wrestlemania.

[@BlakeC27]

@stevencook158 All but the screwy finish with the Undertaker returning but who doesn't get screwed with Shawn Michaels as the special guest referee?

[@madnomad3861]

Triple H said that he and The Rock wanted a 60 min iron man match to happen at Mania which instead happened at Judgment day in a couple of months

[@ajk]

@@madnomad3861 From what I understand, the whole singles match at Mania (and Rock's win in turn at Backlash), wasn't done because Austin who you might remember returned for a night to aid Rock the next month, was actually supposed to do that at Mania, but he wasn't quite ready yet still fresh off his neck surgery. This may be wrong, but that's what I remember reading in past.

[@benespinosa6725]

I Remember the Aces And Eights storyline in impact Wrestling in 2013 that was great Until Bully Ray was revealed as the president of the Aces and Eights @ Lockdown 2013 that was a Swerve I knew he would Join them especially since D-Von was already a member of the group and Tazz Joining was awesome I totally forgot that Mike Knox was in the group as well.

[@adrenaliner91]

The second Kane was so cool. I didn't care that it made no sense. It was so cool.

[@Erwin-h9x]

They should have ran with it. And created a new kane character.

[@criminalmindsgirl2936]

Austin storyline would've been interesting had the person ran him over was Vince or Triple H.

[@shawnmichaels568]

The fiend losing the match with one RKO was one of the worst decision's WWE have ever made.

[@zemox2534]

It killed whatever momentum Bray had left.

[@michaellelafu]

Multiple finishers is one of the main reasons why wrestling is shit nowadays

[@yourgrammarisnotverygood1827]

@@michaellelafu Okay? And? How is one finisher done extremely poorly any better?

[@fakenamejones4254]

I had an accident involving getting burnt, over 21% of my body getting 3rd degree. Then after I get out of the burn ward I see the fiend getting set on fire. It flared up my new PTSD!

[@girlgarde]

The Big Show's switching back and forth between being a face and a heel annoyed me so when he allied with the Undertaker in July 1999, I groaned in annoyance as he'd only been a good guy for a few months and he was going back to being a bad guy?

[@Atroz7]

To be fair the logic of Rikishi not being on the roster was actually what let Foley deduce it was him. Scotty Too Hotty said something like “It couldn’t have been me I was hanging with Sexay and Kish” which foley then brought up he wasn’t on the card. This certainly creates other holes like why was Rikishi initially a serious character and why did it seem like he met Too Cool for the first time later but at least covers his status for the Austin thing. Still a terrible idea and nonsense reasoning

[@mclew1234]

Tbf even with what they had they wern't that far from a decent storyline. Rikishi ran down Austin thinking he'd help his family, but Rock as the bayface didn't want the help. Triple H used Rikishi's naivety for his own gain to get Austin out of the way so then Austin's return is he batters Rikishi, Austin then moves onto Triple H. Rikishi moves into a short fed with The Rock & finally you bring it all back to where you want it with Austin vs Rock & have a new upper mid card heel in Rikishi

[@briwanderz]

i liked aces & eights, it was certainly not perfect, but was at least interesting, until it got too screwed up near the end, yeah there needed to be a bit more star power or something to it, and there was certain things that definitely would have went better, but it was better then a lot of other things going on in wrestling in the 2000s... they should have kept more of them masked longer. i certainly felt it was better then 'retribution" on wwe that gave some nxt people silly names like t-bar and slapjack, where i think they were fighting for contracts, but they got them almost right away and for some reason continued, or were they trying to destroy the company, but then signed contracts right away and continued?? i'm not even sure really what they were doing, other then losing every match.

[@TomE.V.]

RIP To the Late Great Jay Briscoe. My thoughts and prayers go out to your family and friends

[@jamesAGarfield608]

Nope I hope his family rots in hell after Jay shitcoe died noones gonna miss Jay shitcoe anyways

[@98nh3609]

I might be completely misremembering this but wasn't part of a McMahon in every corner also that the Royal Rumble finish got botched and then it turned into a storyline??

[@MorAodhan]

So...WWE ruined Bray's fiend story? No surprise there. They should just let him work, pay him to write and perform and he may save the views.

[@zemox2534]

RIP Jay Briscoe. You will not be forgotten.

[@paulcowlishaw]

What about the time Vincent Kennedy Mcmahon wanted to father Stephanie's child.

[@melissahernandez3072]

RIP Jay Briscoe

[@WRESTLEWITHANDY]

🙏

[@edmorris2466]

I count the hell’s and that said’s 😂. Great video!!!

[@kadharefinley224]

I remember when Dean turned on Seth we were all like awesome, Dean Ambrose is a heel and then a few weeks later he came out wearing a Bane mask smh Vince always has to mess up everything

[@dillonohlemiller401]

It could have been AMAZING. But Vince ruins everything

[@zarrstrudeltributemaker314]

@@dillonohlemiller401 vince made wwe and is a good man for businesse lol he created so much and you people don't even know which ideas are his xD imagine it comes out that he was, the one giving those returnees their contractts back.

[@zemox2534]

@Zarrstrudel Vince Fired JR multiple times (once took part in a segment that made fun of his colon surgery), greenlit the Katie vick story, fired half his employees during the first lockdown of covid, covered up the murder of Jimmy Snuka's girlfriend, took no responsibility 4 the death of Owen Hart, forced Ashlay Massaro to keep quiet about her rape on a tour (and even denied it later on), paid several women to jeep quiet about their affairs with him and returned to wwe out of ego and spite. Vince is a disgusting human being and I am sick of mindless sheep like you defending him all the fucking tone!!

[@CryingLord]

Take a shot every time he says “convoluted” 🥴

[@zacharystranahan9087]

So to be clear, Vince thought that Lana was too beautiful to be aligned with Rusev and his salutation was to align him with Summer Ray.

[@Tey816]

I will never ever ever everrrrr forget Mae and that hand. Even back then I thought that was one of the dumbest segments I've ever scene. Man, WWE had some crazy storylines, half of which made absolutely NO sense.

[@acerimmer8338]

Mae Young, Mark Henry and Hand remains one of my favorite storylines of all-time. It's so absurd, far-fetched and ridiculous I can't help but love it. Mae Young is a legend and the fact she was wearing out Sexual Chocolate, a sex addict- you can't help but laugh.

[@Unregistered.HyperCam.2]

Mae Young in general is an absolute legend. I honestly can't say I've seen her wrestle when she was active decades ago, but just her character work in the Attitude Era was legendary. At 7-9 years old, I personally found a nearly 80-year-old woman to be one of the most entertaining and most over characters on the roster.

[@dirtyhiggins5484]

Please do a Jay Briscoe video

[@RyanRumbles434]

I think if not for HHH picking up the ball after Stone Cold and The Rock's careers changing and HBK's return in 2002; A lot I think is due to that and Eric Bischoff joining WWE. It did really help longtime fans stay with the company without The Rock and Austin on a full time schedule.

[@salcarrero3393]

Very true I remember 99 2000 smackdown should of just been called the triple h Steph show and he was a great fukn heel

[@Unregistered.HyperCam.2]

I don't think it's entirely fair to put the Rusev/Lana love quadrangle on Vince entirely. It was a crap storyline to begin with, yes, and many people knew Rusev & Lana were together IRL, but there's no accounting for two of the people in the storyline getting engaged and TMZ plastering an image of them with the news all over, to the point that even WWE couldn't really ignore it. It'd be like if during the DDP/Taker angle if DDP had been publicly broadcasted to millions renewing his wedding vows or something; it wouldn't really make sense to keep that storyline with DDP creeping on Taker's wife going.

[@vanyadolly]

Considering how thin the stories are in wrestling, the most confusing thing is how they manage to be so fucking convoluted. It doesn't help that half of them are just dropped out of the blue and never mentioned again.

[@GHanBax]

WWE shows don't happen everyday, so I wonder what creative members are doing everyday in their planning.

[@SajoMt]

Kane and Mysterio vegetative state thing. And cm punk text message kevin nash triple H story

[@Erwin-h9x]

I was really excited when the imposter kane story started... only for it to end a week later. They could have used this to introduce a new brother to kane. But instead we got doc

[@ericdemby4644]

Looking at Roman now the rikishi storyline would have been great if the rock had turned heel. Rikishi could've DID IT for the bloodline

[@antwoneallwood6352]

Bray Wyatt just was done dirty hopefully vince mcmahon can see the value in him right now

[@charliewatson657]

Bray Wyatt sucks. He doesn't even wrestle. Its always all build up and no pay off. I actually fast forward through his segments now cuz There's no point in hearing him talk. I wish he would would just go away again.

[@dillonohlemiller401]

God Dean’s heel turn was so disappointing

[@Wnel929]

RIP Bray Wyatt

[@elleni-41]

Confusing storylines n no explanations...🤣🤣.. that's wwe for u.. Great video andy..👍👌

[@WRESTLEWITHANDY]

🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@elleni-41]

@Steven Cook ..i know..🤣🤣

[@cliffordjackson3]

FACTS.

[@AsherX9]

Omg, the Aces and Eights…… that’s when I stopped watching TNA/Impact.

[@tyreepowell8367]

Awesome Video Wrestle With Andy

[@6oclocknewsat8]

After the hit-and-run, Rikishi was being portrayed as the fun-loving, dancing big man with Too Cool. It kind of had a moral to the angle, looks can be deceiving.

[@seanmcclure]

Dungeon of Doom was so bad I swore we were being trolled.

[@MrParker-ux2mh]

Aye Andy….how about HALL OF PAIN - THE MARK HENRY STORY or……DEM BOYS - Jay and Mark Briscoe

[@TheBigDawgSL]

I think we are getting the Bray/Alexa payoff now...although Uncle Howdy is throwing a curveball

[@zemox2534]

I rather Bray stats far away from Bliss. He doesn't need that Harley Quinn knock-off cramping his style

[@relent-lass7510]

That whole Fiend vs John Cena at Wrestlemania match,was very confusing I still haven’t figured it out

[@premnarmalwar2948]

Bro please make a video wwe and wcw best rivalries

[@skystarlight]

Rip Bray Wyatt

[@drums4lyfe0987]

I can remember watching most of these live. And I’m not even 40

[@emperortrevornorton3119]

The toughest tortures of early 2000's pro wrestling is Mae Young and Mark Henry storyline it wasn't that I didn't respect Mae and Mark for the accomplishments in pro wrestling it is just I could see way better storylines for both of them not to do with each other and also not to do with Thing from Addams Family being born

[@mattk3654]

Are you saying that "the world's strongest man" impregnating Mae Young and for her to give birth to ham...... was not an accomplishment? Lmao..😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 Yeah, I get what your saying but still😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@kjo2130]

Rikishi turning heel pissed me off so much. He was SO OVER with 2 Cool!! Like why end it?? So stupid.

[@2016doomslayer]

Great content as always! Love from UK ❤

[@KigerRilla]

Why did you get rid of the Adam cole documentary

[@jasonshadow8052]

Plz do Heel Hogan's Immortal faction. And the Authority too. Also Abyss.

[@gelapong]

please do a video for asuka!!!

[@BigDub360]

is it wrong that to me as i was watching these stories play out they didn't seem that convoluted?

[@chocolateface4885]

At least mae young wasn't pimpin out female talent

[@cjfrancia3781]

I NEED A ASUKA DOCUMENTARY!! The Empress Of Tomorrow The Asuka Story!!!!!!

[@larrycopes506]

Vince Russo might have been gone but they found a notebook he left and still used some of his ideas even if they were terrible.

[@TeirusuReynard]

Luke Gallows needs an impostor angle to keep up the train.

[@ronitlama9480]

Make a video upon Jay Briscoe

[@jrayfive0s172]

I think it's a square not a quadrangle

[@Future_BayBay]

Oh the irony of Glen 'Fake Diesel" Jacobs throwing Fake Kane out the back door...

[@ricorose3834]

The Big Show was in “McMahon in every corner” match , was actually because Big Show won the Royal Rumble

[@kiethblanchard1531]

Rest easy bray 😭😭💔💔

[@metalanarchy5186]

At Mania 2000 they owed Mike Foyle that Mainevent thats why they ended up doing a mcmahon in every conner. And throw in the Big show

[@alexanderball6326]

Quadrangle?... I think they call that a square

[@stevengrvp]

Good video r.i.p jay

[@Appetite4Rose]

Thankfully WCW learned their lesson and never let the NWO become too big and convoluted 😅

[@jrmichaels4648]

why does everybody call the wwe new york when they're in connecticut?

[@Skarzx]

Still don't know what anyone sees in Moxley

[@ajelaz8657]

Thank you Andy for this video

[@snoopdog3771]

Speedy recovery Mark Briscoe. Speedy recovery Jay's 2 daughters. RIP Jay Briscoe.

[@jamesAGarfield608]

Bye bye Mr Jay shitcoe BYE rest in hell

[@Dim4323]

You know Riskisi saying Samoa wrestlers never got respect...well look now with the usos and Roman...they are getting respect...so maybe his heel turn did work ADMIT IT!

[@nova2512]

2:53 *Umm I believe you will find she appeared on a box like structure*

[@deadaccount7520]

"Hard to know where he stands". Clearly you've never played hide and seek with a giant. It's impossible to not know where he stands. Just because kayfabe died. Doesn't mean pissing on its grave is all good. I Iook at politicians the same way. Yeah we all know what you're actually up to. All I ask for, is the small courtesy of hiding your activities. Props to the big man for the pro tradition stance.

[@steveblizzard4281]

They should have just named the "Big Swerve" instead of the Big Show.........

[@kaikanderson5061]

WTH is wrong with D'Von lmao

[@anjhontongo6945]

13:49 a.k.a MAY 19TH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@whoishe113]

I liked the aces

[@chrismorale_]

What do the 33 and under fans think of the wrestling and storylines from pre WWE and WCW?

[@SuperCarsFromTheHood]

Dungeon of Doom was NWO Before NWO lol.

[@lesleywalker100]

Can you do one on every wwe champions

[@Kobra6510]

Big Show maybe the most bipolar wrestler ever as far as turns.

[@alberthenley2988]

The Bray Wyatt angles always end up not making sense because they were so far fetched and stupid.

[@UniqueVidhan]

Dean Ambrose is best.