10 Wrestling Storylines That Were Much Darker Than You Think

Vince McMahon probably should have stuck with "good guys versus bad guys"...
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[@lucyvalentine20]

Fiend and Bliss wasn't them trying to turn Bray into a you know what. It was a more supernatural Joker and Harley Quinn

[@bellaknightR597]

That's what I was thinking, too

[@coreylineberry8557]

To be fair, that isn't exactly the relationship that should be emulated. There's a reason pretty much all DC media moved away from that and has Harley with Poison Ivy.

[@ArcherSuh4721]

I thought they were going for something along the likes of Charles Manson and Squeaky Fromme and the other women in his cult, who also behaved in a creepy childlike manner due to brainwashing and massive amounts of LSD. Granted, that's still far from good.

[@JohnSuave]

@@coreylineberry8557 it's still better than what was being alluded to here... I mean obviously Joker and Harley is twisted af but at least that's a fictional relationship. Can't really say the same about the other thing.

[@kidneystonermusic]

It's ageplay for sure

[@Dr_1212]

Vince is the darkest storyline ever one that needs to end in WWE

[@johndoiron9615]

Austin's heel turn was necessary no matter how it was executed. The Two-Man Power trip angle was fun. Wrestling "experts" always overthink this.

[@KKFWB]

mfs gonna b sad when cena retires without the turn

[@kbreslin7289]

I mean Vince's real life storyline could top this list.

[@gmatuz8276]

You guys forgot about the time heidenreich "read" Cole a poem backstage!

[@MrBrownsugar85]

I’ve always said ruthless aggression era Vince was the most evil version of the character

[@SophieCrane-o7v]

& 20 Years later Vince's Ruthless Aggression arc Makes my Blood Boil!👿👿👿🤬🤬🤬😠😠😠 & I Would Love the Day when the investigative journalist Roger Cook comes out of retirement to Confront Mr. McMahon on a One off Cook Report Special tackling The Dark Side of Pro Wrestling.

[@brandongordon2392]

He literally beat the shit out of his daughter a week before her wedding day

[@Thestray187]

​@@brandongordon2392 lol. Wasn't a real wedding

[@joshstrope1092]

Most definitely

[@11sdownie]

Really is true

[@ajtaylor8750]

Saying you want "Mother's Milk" for your cereal couldn't be any more of a dead giveaway of a sick and twisted storyline.

[@dylanogg347]

#09 was Joker & Harley Quinn with a different coat of paint. To #08's credit, their work in 2008 and 2009 was pretty solid. Poor Kanyon...

[@shelden286]

Kane forcing lita to have a baby art imitating life folks 🤣🤣🤣

[@ajk]

worst thing about it all is Kane became the GOOD GUY in all this......and Lita the HEEL......or as Brian Zane once put it "It's the magic of rape" (ding?) lol

[@claymathewselevator8121]

Jesse and Festus after Luke Gallows retcon with Straight Edge Society

[@achimsinn6189]

Matanza Cuerno in Lucha Underground. They basically just booked him like a monster, but the way they portraied him he was locked into a prison in solidary confinement for years by his family and they managed to gain psychological control over him likely by causing psycological trauma. Plus the entire character came across like if he had some level of mental trauma or illness to begin with.

[@kris2384...]

I hate the people saying wrestling peaked at WM17. We peaked as fans then got older. It goes through cycles. We watched hogan as kids, got older and needed something more, then came the attitude era. The company had to change again to get new younger fans in. Kids that start watching 8 to 10 years ago live what's happening now. Bloodline story has so many memorable moments. The insane spots we see now are the Jeff Hardy spots we saw as teenagers. Guys like Gunter just killing people. I endured the new generation, the wrestlers with jobs era... what we have now is much better than people give it credit for

[@stevengrvp]

This is going to be a good list

[@pauliewalnuts829]

I find some of these hilarious. It's the absurdity and the fact that someone came up with these ideas and they got on television. 😂

[@DeAngelo1325]

There’s always American Horror Story

[@Adz907]

Did he really just call The Undertaker unprofessional?

[@Randybutternubz]

My first WWE event was when big show had two giant crates in the ring for undertaker and the dog that came out of one was my sisters friends dog. Now I’m a stagehand and set up wwe/AEW events all the time lol

[@ajk]

Oh that's so cool.......awesome story!

[@maxb4210]

Your sister’s friend’s dog is a true icon who will be remembered for their contributions to the business

[@maxb4210]

Your sister’s friend’s dog is a true icon who will be remembered for their contributions to the business

[@Tracy81258]

The storyline where Batista supposedly sexually assaulted one of the female wrestlers whose name escapes me at the moment got dropped FAST. For very good reason I should think.

[@jimbo_1312]

Was it Melina?

[@bluenosegamer9175]

@@jimbo_1312 it was.

[@pyrusane]

@@jimbo_1312 you're close, it was Krystal Marshal, Lashley's ex-wife. The Melina incident you're thinking of wasn't a storyline, she was claiming it happened for real, and it's part of what led to her release from the company.

[@VisuallyImpairedGamer1987]

WWF's Hawk "addiction" sotryline. That cut way too close to the bone.

[@alexiskoiva5919]

The fiend recruiting Alexa bliss isn't that much different from the joker to Harley quinn. I think it would have worked better had gone closer to that route fiend/joker Wyatt with Harley bliss than the weird spooky hocus pocus stuff

[@eagleleft]

The whole italian playing an "arab terrorist" thing and also people in black attacking taker while the azan plays

[@TheQuestionsssssssss]

Who was even thinking bout the fiend and Alexa bliss that way. Looking too deep into shit 😂

[@bellaknightR597]

It was giving me Joker and Harley Quinn vibes

[@DJDoubleCee]

At 4:27, Stone Cold should have never turned heel. It took me months to finally see him as a bad guy.

[@isbryanflyingordying2202]

The Lucha underground Dante fox and killshot story was pretty depressing

[@erickarredondo6760]

Their extreme match was so amazing

[@isbryanflyingordying2202]

@@erickarredondo6760 yesssir

[@travishunstable5283]

I miss lucha underground

[@joshie_b1987]

Behind the Bastards has a six part episode on Vince McMahon, he's a monster

[@chadrowland4670]

Lita agreed to sleep with Kane so he wouldn't hurt Matt Hardy anymore.

[@deathmauler181]

Which is...healthy

[@Aniwazoa]

That's still coercive which sexual violence and exploitation falls under.

[@AO1beatz]

If y'all got pedophile vibes out of the Fiend and Alexa Bliss storyline, it says way more about you than WWE, cuz ain't no way the average person even thought about that when watching it unfold 🤣

[@Windrider784]

I remember absolutely refusing to boo Snitsky against Kane. Those writers thought we were all stupid.

[@Aniwazoa]

Yeah especially when in the storyline Snitsky was basically booked by Bishoff to be fed to an enraged Kane who needed someone to destroy. Snitsky was just defending himself and he succeeded but he ended up becoming the heel when he (rightfully) said it wasn't his fault for causing Lita's miscarriage. Wrestling storylines can be so strange lol but I still enjoyed it as a kid growing up.

[@joeswada9391]

Looking back on it the one man gang becoming Akeem the African dream was pretty dark (pun intended)

[@AsherDMckoy]

Did I just get jebaited with the RVD thumbnail?

[@zooropa04]

Marlena being forced to share a bed with Val Venis and the Pillman/Stone Cold gun incident made me stop watching wrestling for almost a decade. Both of those made me think that this just isn't wrestling.

[@tengkuamsyar2120]

I actually have no idea what this guy was talking about regarding the Punk vs MJF storyline lmao

[@deathmauler181]

Cause its madeup

[@crazyhatchetlife]

How the muscles feel after that stretch with the fiend lol

[@greggmcdonnell1879]

The narration in this video is the spoken word equivalent of writing without putting a space between the full stop and the start of a new sentence.

[@CarlosCruz-ox9wc]

Vince may be hugely important to the history of wrestling, may he may be the largest PoS to ever be in the industry

[@j.dmatthews441]

Vince really will do anything if it puts eyeballs on his product and money in his pocket!!! True sociopath!!!

[@oddishhonor]

HUGE REACH with that fiend and Alexa storyline. Says more about the person whose watching the content and made that conclusion as opposed to the angle all together. Michael Sidgwick wrote this? I’m not surprised. Talking about chomos, someone check that guys computer.

[@deathmauler181]

Are you surprised like really?

[@gfear24]

It's a Sidgwick video. He literally makes shit up to shit all over WWE. That's his entire gimmick. He'll blindly defend the indefensible in AEW, but slam the same indefensible shit if WWE did it.

[@parveskoyes9937]

Vince Russo was the worst thing to ever happen in wrestling. He himself admits he was responsible for the demise of WCW. Imagine where WCW and wrestling in general would be if he wasn’t there.

[@stevelesliehikes]

Vince vs Stephanie led to Undertaker vs Vince in a buried alive match. Thats the reason Vince won the match against Stephanie.

[@Kobra6510]

That last storyline was basically "Kane, the good guy rapist." Iykyk

[@chadharger9323]

2023 and they still exploited Eddie's name.

[@spi6455]

And are trying to steal Eddie's gimmick with Ex-ConDom

[@frankiebelsey1898]

Undertaker locked Kane in a basement and then killed his parents

[@TitusRedwind]

Rey paying tribute to Eddie wasn't "exploitative". They were real friends and many people were grieving. If you have a problem with that, you should have a problem with every tribute show including the tributes to Brodie Lee and Jay Briscoe.

[@deathmauler181]

Lmao careful,that would mean they have to be consistent

[@CarlosCruz-ox9wc]

The problem wasn't the eddie tribute show. It was using his death as a storyline. Having the heel get cheap heat by telling Rey that eddie was in hell.

[@deathmauler181]

@@CarlosCruz-ox9wc heel using tribute show to get heat.

[@Bigstarrocker9]

The nostalgia burns

[@scotthallinan4609]

Hold up. Since when in the F was Undertaker considered unprofessional?

[@deathmauler181]

Never, except in their imagination. He's largely seen as THE professional

[@scotthallinan4609]

@deathmauler181 yeah I really didn't get that remark at all. Never heard that anywhere

[@pyrusane]

Sidgwick wrote it, he has a hate-boner for anything and everything WWE

[@justin_your_cousin9273]

AEW is TV-14 Without necrophilia, tongues being lodged down throats

[@TheGeekBox]

Feel most of these are a bit of a reach 😅

[@a.j.l.thrifty]

I would wrestle stephanie McMahon I cant lie 👀

[@gfear24]

Shocking! An anti-WWE list written by Sidgwick.

[@labeebulshah8424]

Those are not lies.

[@vazelokiller9848]

#5 Still pisses me off til this day !

[@TalkManT]

Katie Vick not in here shocks me

[@bluenosegamer9175]

Did you comment this before watching the video?

[@pyrusane]

@@bluenosegamer9175 in all fairness, while Katie Vick was mentioned, it wasn't the actual entry.

[@prestongray2371]

This video was a streeeeeetch sheesh

[@CyclopsWasRight616]

I miss Team LittleBig

[@marvelsProtege]

Michael Sidgwick needs help 😕

[@oddishhonor]

He’s a creep. That fiend and Alexa conclusion says more about his mind than anything.

[@registereduser]

Snitskys finest hour.

[@davidgallo2919]

Your having my baby

[@antoinestroman3431]

Number 9 and 8 were both quite a reach. They were not as deep as y’all are making them seem here….

[@DeAngelo1325]

WWE be trippin 😂

[@jerryjanik480]

And Vince McMahon and Vince Russo cannot write storylines for women

[@jorgedinatale4679]

You guys are reaching too far 😂

[@cripplermaximus]

Pee

[@kayvonreid1757]

Yessir

[@JuanTomlinson472]

Snowflakes alert!!!

[@scottsummers4707]

Thank you for destroying my childhood whatculture.