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Some wrestling storylines are so embarrassing, we try to forget they ever happened. These are the 10 Biggest Retcons in Wrestling History!  What do you think of our rankings?  Timestamps! 0:00​ - Introduction 0:58 - #10 1:50 - #9 2:43 - #8 3:47 -  #7 4:55 - #6 5:57 - #5  6:50 - #4 7:41 -#3 8:46 -#2 9:56 -#1  #WWE​ #WrestlingMoments​ #WWETop10 #Top10  WrestleTalk Podcasts are moving here   https://bit.ly/3pEAEIu​ Adam Blampied's lists are moving here  https://bit.ly/32JJsCv​ Wrestling Daily has moved here  https://bit.ly/3j3BXOZ​ WrestleTalk stays here  https://goo.gl/WfYA12​ | SUBSCRIBE TO THEM ALL! Make sure to enable ALL push notifications!  TWITTER: https://twitter.com/partsfunknown​ FACEBOOK: https://www.facebook.com/partsfunknown/​ SUBSCRIBE TO partsFUNknown: https://bit.ly/2J2Hl6q​

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00:00 Wrestling is a lot like comics. It's embarrassing, difficult to get into, way too costly for

00:04 what it is, you wouldn't want to meet its fans, and it features the full spectrum of

00:07 human emotions condensed to punching and screaming. It also never bloody ends, with storylines

00:13 piling on top of backstories, Wikipedia choking amounts of lore for every single character

00:18 that stretches back years and years. Sometimes these backstories make sense, characters start

00:23 out, face some challenges that grow and change them in understandable ways, but also sometimes

00:27 "Oh damn, that storyline didn't work, bloody hell retcon it and move on."

00:30 Rebster's Wrestling Dictionary defines a retcon as "retroactive continuity", i.e.

00:35 remember that thing that happened a certain way? Shut up, no you don't, it never happened

00:38 that way, you can't remember it right because you're a baby, but that thing is ignored

00:42 because whoops.

00:43 I'm Adam Hailing from PartsFunknown and here are the 10 Biggest Retcons in Wrestling

00:47 History.

00:48 10. Rikishi Attempted Murderer Rikishi's Lorraine is a Hall of Famer and

00:53 that's fantastic. Before he settled on the gimmick of "have but will travel", the

00:57 man who'd come to be known as Rikishi had a bunch of gimmicks that didn't quite work

01:00 out. He was a head shrinker, make a difference fatu who kept it real for the kids, and of

01:05 course the sultan, oh no the sultan. Since he became Rikishi he hasn't looked back,

01:10 and neither have we, because we've all collectively agreed to ignore the fact that, in official

01:14 WWE canon, Rikishi is a straight up legit attempted murderer. He was a happy guy who

01:19 danced, then he ran down Stone Cold Steve Austin at top speed for the Rock, and tried

01:22 to do so several more times. Then everyone thought, that's a bit weird, he went away

01:27 for a bit, then came back as a happy guy who danced and everyone was like yay Rikishi,

01:30 no problems here. Look at that butt, YOLO. And when he was inducted into the Hall of

01:34 Fame his video package just kinda left out the whole hit and run thing.

01:39 9. Dominik Guerrero Dominik Mysterio, or Dominik Guerrero, real

01:44 ones know, has a pretty huge future ahead of him. I mean when you're mixing up with

01:47 Brock Lesnar and your first official match is against Seth Freakin' Rons at Summer

01:50 Freakin' Slam, it's fair to say WWE has high hopes for the lad, and if he were alive

01:55 today his biological father Eddie Guerrero would be very proud.

01:59 The year was 2005, and in one of the great 'so bad it's good' storylines WWE ever

02:03 did, Eddie had a secret, and that secret was, he was actually the biological puppy to Rey's

02:08 son Dominik. Pictured here during one of his rare televised appearances being shorter than

02:12 Rey Mysterio, the master of the 619 admitted yes, Dominik is Eddie's biological son,

02:17 but he was his proper father, so the two men settled it the only way the American legal

02:20 system recognises, with a custody briefcase ladder match at Summer Slam. Wonderful bollocks.

02:25 WWE has chosen to retcon this out of existence, with Dominik now recognised to being once

02:29 again Rey's biological and gigantic son.

02:33 8. That Time Vince Died So yeah, I mean this should be number one,

02:37 but I don't want to end the list on it so I'm not going to. It's the most abrupt,

02:41 zero pretense, handbrake on, immediate halt to a storyline in WWE history for a very good

02:47 reason. It's mentioned a lot, but just in case this is your first rodeo, in June 2007

02:51 WWE began what was supposed to be their biggest storyline in years. Vince stepped into a limousine,

02:56 that limousine blew up, and WWE announced he was presumed dead. Steph appeared on Raw

03:01 and acted like Vince was dead, there was going to be a funeral, Vince's brother Rod was

03:06 going to be a main on-screen character, it would run all the way until WrestleMania.

03:09 Of course, WWE scrapped the entire thing when they discovered the real life deaths of Chris

03:13 Benoit and his family. Two weeks after blowing up, Vince appeared on screen to introduce

03:17 the Benoit Memorial episode of Raw, then again on ECW when the full details emerged. Two

03:22 months later Vince came back to Raw, said he blew himself up to see if people really

03:26 cared about him, and then the company echoed the image of Vince getting into a limo before

03:30 coach rushed up to him with paternity papers for an illegitimate child.

03:36 On to lighter things.

03:37 7. That Time Paul Bearer Died Wrestling! The 2004 Great American Bash is

03:43 low-key one of the worst PPVs WWE has ever made. Here are some of the matches, Luthor

03:48 Reigns vs Charlie Haas, Kenzo Suzuki vs Billy Gunn, Mordecai vs Hardcore Holly, Eddie Guerrero

03:54 losing the WWE Championship on a f***ing technicality, and the main event, Undertaker vs The Dudleys

03:59 with the stipulation being that if the dead man won, his long time, I wanna say, employer/friend/uncle

04:07 in law would be murdered by being drowned in cement. Thanks, I hate it.

04:12 Batman Carruthers ended up winning the match, and I guess to prove that Paul wouldn't

04:16 hold him back anymore, chose to pull the lever and drown his friend in cement. Thanks, I

04:23 hate it. Because a televised murder is a bit, you know, weird. On the next episode of Smackdown,

04:28 WWE made Michael Cole do a serious face and say "Paul Bearer has suffered severe injuries

04:34 to the lungs."

04:35 6. The Giant Son No, not Dominic Mysterio. We're actually

04:39 briefly leaving WWE and talking about good old WCW and well, it's The Big Show.

04:45 Before he turned up in WWE in early '99, Big Show had been a mainstay of WCW for a

04:49 good few years known as The Giant. He was initially called The Giant because his gimmick

04:53 was, he was the son of Andre the Giant. He had long hair, wore the same kind of singlet

04:57 as his air quotes dad. When he appeared, Bobby Heenan would say things like "I remember

05:01 those boots, I remember those trunks." He did things like rip off Hulk Hogan's crucifix

05:06 necklace ripping off when Andre did it before Mania 3, and attacked him in amazingly cornballed

05:11 Dungeon of Doom segments screaming things like "I'm the son of a giant." We get

05:15 it, jeez. For context, Andre had only been dead for two years at this point, so not great.

05:22 WCW kept Paul Wight as The Giant, kept him in Andre's singlet, had Hogan body slam

05:26 him at Halloween Havoc '95, but slowly phased out mentions of Andre because, you know, ick.

05:32 But according to interviews, Paul Wight still to this day has people telling him how much

05:35 they loved his dad.

05:37 5. Edge, Christian

05:39 And speaking of family connections that just sort of went away, anyone remember when Edge

05:43 and Christian were brothers? You should, it was the entire point of their 2001 feud. Edge

05:47 and Christian were brothers and Grandma Edna preferred Edge and who wouldn't? TNA fans,

05:52 who, in 2009, after Christian returned from being the instant classic over in Dixie Carter's

05:57 promotion, suddenly he and Edge were no longer siblings but childhood friends. As close as

06:01 most brothers, you could say.

06:03 On the April 30th episode of Smackdown in 2010, on Edge's last episode on Smackdown

06:08 thanks to The Draft, Edge and Christian laid out their history, with Christian saying to

06:12 the fans "You remember the history of Edge and Christian?" "We sure do," replied

06:16 the fans. "We met in 6th grade," said Christian. "What?" said the fans. "Because

06:20 I think we remember your history more than you do."

06:22 What about Grandma Edna, Christian? You can't just erase Grandma Edna. This is why she preferred

06:28 Edge.

06:29 4. Triple H and Steph are married and divorced and married

06:32 Ah, Triple H and Stephanie. A tale as old as time, a song as old as wine. Boy meets

06:38 girl, boy hates girl, boy interrupts girl's wedding to show footage of him actually marrying

06:42 girl while she was passed out, boy fights girl's dad, girl betrays dad, girl and boy

06:46 are happy for a bit, then girl suspects boy doesn't love her anymore so lies about a

06:50 pregnancy, boy finds out and wrecks their vow renewal ceremony, boy divorces girl years

06:55 later, boy and girl actually get married in real life, it becomes an unacknowledged secret

06:58 in the wrestling industry for years until another boy, a snake boy, attacks girl's

07:02 father, then snake boy attacks the girl, and then original boy comes out to defend his

07:06 sort of secret wife's honour, but also everyone knew they were married but they never officially

07:10 talked about it, and then they became this famous married couple in the industry, even

07:13 though an official WWE canon is still divorced or something I honestly don't know. Beauty

07:18 and the beast.

07:19 3. Kofi Kingston is no longer Jamaican me crazy

07:23 Fun fact, Kingston is the capital of Jamaica, that's why Kofi Kingston was called Kofi

07:27 Kingston, like if a British person appeared he'd be Larry London, or if he was French

07:32 he'd be Pierre Paris, because WWE is a baby show for babies.

07:35 Ok, to be fair to WWE for once, Kofi Kingston was actually the name that Kofi used on the

07:39 indie circuit before joining WWE, like the whole Jamaican angle was his idea to differentiate

07:44 himself from guys like the Ghanaian Prince Nana in Ring of Honor, so yes, fair enough.

07:48 Does still make it super weird though when WWE heavily pushed him as Jamaican in backstage

07:53 promos for like a year before suddenly dropping it. Literally, on September 21st 2009 he was

07:58 billed as Jamaican, his next appearance on Raw two weeks later he's billed as being

08:02 from Ghana. No accent, no Jamaican themed headband, but he still kept his Jamaican theme,

08:07 because in fairness it rules, and crucially the name Kofi Kingston. Weird that suddenly

08:12 Larry London's now from Paris and there was nary another mention of when Kofi was

08:15 Jamaican outside of a famous promo a few weeks later which saw Triple H bring it up like

08:19 a cheeky boy. He asked him "Hey, aren't you supposed to be Jamaican?" and god how

08:23 I wish Kofi had responded "Hey, aren't you supposed to be French?"

08:27 Number 2, Kane's big normal face. Aw man, this one's some bullsh*t. Ever since his

08:32 big red debut at Bad Blood in 1997, Kane's disfigurement has been a bit, shall we say,

08:37 all over the f*cking place. First of all, he couldn't talk, then he talked with the

08:41 existence of a voice box, then he could talk because, checks note, X-Pac taught him how

08:45 with the power of friendship and sucking it, then his full body scarring was revealed to

08:49 not be full body when he started wearing his sexy see-through singlet, and despite all

08:53 of this there was always one thing that was true, one constant, and that was Kane had

08:58 a hideous burned face under that mask. There was a fire set by the Undertaker, lest we

09:03 forget, and that left Kane with a permanent facial disfigurement, and this was 100% true

09:08 until June 23rd 2003 when he unmasked on Raw to reveal nothing. Sort of black smudges,

09:16 like he was a Victorian f*cking chimney sweep, Frazier Crane hair. "Is that a human?" shouted

09:21 JR. Yes JR, yes it is. I mean to be fair, what were they gonna do, have Glenn Jacobs

09:26 wrestle in prosthetics forever? So his facial disfigurement was Rhett Condor's air quote

09:29 "mental scarring" and Kane was allowed to go through life with a normal face. Good

09:33 for him, but some bullsh*t man.

09:37 And number one, Hornswoggle in every f*cking respect. Audible sigh. Over the years, Hornswoggle

09:44 really has been a mythical creature in that he's whatever you need him to be in the

09:47 moment and his backstories are as inconsistent as snowflake patterns. He's been the following

09:52 things. Mute, until he wasn't. Vince McMahon's son, until he wasn't. Finlay's son, until

09:57 he wasn't. An actual leprechaun, until he wasn't. Anonymous Raw General Manager, until

10:02 he wasn't. And then he was again, now he isn't anymore. Living under the ring, until

10:06 he wasn't. A member of DX, until he wasn't. A little cow, until he wasn't. He is all

10:11 things to all men. He who can be in all places at once. He is the shortening of the way,

10:17 the one true Kwisatz Haderach. Hope you all have seen June, because I'm not explaining

10:21 those references. Until his release in 2016, Hornswoggle spent his WWE life as the ultimate

10:26 human prop, who technically had one single unbroken continuity in WWE, one unedited backstory,

10:33 but one that was actually constantly rewritten depending on when Vince thought it would be

10:36 funny to have a little person on screen. Wrestling! And that's our list. Can you remember other

10:40 details that WWE don't want you to remember? Let us know below and if you like this video,

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