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WWE's primary focus in recent years has been on the quality of wrestling, but an equally important aspect is the storylines. While WWE has put up stellar matches in recent years, the same cannot be said about the storylines.
Some are short and simple, such as Dolph Ziggler being jealous of Drew McIntyre's successful run as the WWE Champion. Other storylines go on for several months, such as the feud between Rey Mysterio and Seth Rollins. Their feud started when The Messiah tried to end the luchador's career by injuring his eye during a tag team match on RAW.
This eventually led to Rollins then involving Mysterio’s family into the storyline as well.
In addition to this, WWE delivered several other memorable storylines in 2020. This includes Roman Reigns' ongoing ‘Head of the Table’ storyline, The Fiend and Randy Orton’s feud, and Bayley betraying her best friend, Sasha Banks.
However, similar to 2018 and 2019, WWE left many storylines unresolved last year.
In this article, we have a look at seven unresolved WWE storylines from 2020.
#7 Why did Elias never confront WWE Superstar Sheamus over the car crash?
On the 29th May 2020, WWE opened SmackDown with a car accident involving Elias and Jeff Hardy. The Drifter was hit by a car that had a seemingly intoxicated Hardy behind the wheel. The scene was reminiscent of the storyline with Stone Cold Steve Austin at Survivor Series 1999.
However, this angle appeared to be quickly resolved one week later when Jeff Hardy said he was ambushed. He also claimed that eyewitnesses said they saw a person with red hair and a beard getting out of Hardy's car. The only Superstar on the roster at that time that could fit that description was Sheamus.
The Celtic Warrior never officially admitted he was behind the incident and continued to accuse Hardy of being the culprit. However, it cannot be ignored that one week prior, Sheamus was eliminated from the Intercontinental Championship tournament on SmackDown at that time by The Charismatic Enigma.
This meant the former WWE Champion had enough motive to prevent two Superstars, who were still in the tournament, from competing in it any further. He actually found himself back in contention after the incident.
Even though no one ever admitted they were responsible for running over Elias, the biggest hole in this storyline is when The Drifter returned almost five months later he attacked Hardy.
Considering that Hardy was quickly released by the police and no other action was taken against him, it proves that he was not the actual culprit. The fact that Elias failed to address or confront Sheamus on RAW has left this story unresolved.
#6 The romantic storyline between WWE Superstars Otis and Mandy Rose
There is no doubt that out of all of the WWE Superstars, nobody has had a more dramatic 2020 than Otis. His first full year on the main roster was as one half of Heavy Machinery, a tag team that got lost in the shuffle and failed to capture either the Tag Team Championships on RAW and SmackDown.
However, by the end of 2019, Otis entered into a storyline with Mandy Rose, which stemmed from the Golden Goddess giving him a Christmas present, stating that she was his ‘Secret Santa’.
He then pursued Rose for several months, which subsequently led to a feud between himself and Rose's other love interest, Dolph Ziggler. Both Ziggler and Sonya Deville tried to ruin Otis's chances of being in a relationship with Rose. This led to a match at WrestleMania 36, which Otis won, marking his first WrestleMania moment at the same time.
The pair continued to date for several months showing skits and vignettes of their ongoing relationship. However, The Miz became obsessed with Otis’ Money in the Bank contract. This marked the beginning of Otis’ downfall when The Miz got Mandy Rose traded to RAW in September.
While The Miz having enough influence to get anyone traded to another brand is a perplexing storyline itself, the bigger problem is the fact that it was announced by WWE commentators that Otis and Mandy's relationship ended immediately because they were on different brands.
If there’s one thing in WWE that we know to be true, it’s that couples don’t need to split up just because they’re working for different brands. In 2019, Montez Ford went to RAW while Bianca Belair stayed on NXT. Jimmy Uso was drafted to SmackDown, and Naomi went to RAW in the 2020 Draft.
Even though the key difference in these cases is that these are real-life couples, the fact remains that their relationships are publicly acknowledged by WWE, which makes this both a flummoxing and contradicting end to a storyline they put so much time into.
In addition to this, the 19th October 2020 episode of RAW showed Rose and Otis sharing an intimate moment backstage. Otis disguised himself as El Gran Gordo earlier in the show, clearly indicating their storyline had not ended.
However, shortly afterward, commentator Michael Cole continued to tell the WWE Universe on SmackDown that they were still broken up, solely due to what The Miz did.
Whatever the outcome was, the WWE Universe is owed both a better and less confusing ending to the storyline than what was given.
#5 The four-way relationship storyline on WWE RAW featuring Lana, Rusev, Bobby Lashley, and Liv Morgan
Originally a storyline that the WWE started back in September 2019, the saga of Lana’s love life continued well into the first part of 2020. This was before Bobby Lashley decided he wanted a divorce, after Lana cost him the chance to win the WWE Championship at Backlash.
However, it was the final Monday Night RAW of 2019 that really confused the WWE Universe. Although it was no surprise that Lana’s husband, Rusev, would gatecrash hers and Lashley’s wedding, the bigger shock was Liv Morgan admitting her love for Lana.
This storyline may remain unresolved for several reasons. There was no indication that Lana even had a secret admirer, nor did it show anywhere on the weekly shows that Liv Morgan had any connection to Lana.
A bigger concern is that when this was revealed, Bobby Lashley never questioned Lana about the secret relationship and proceeded to get married the following week on the 6th January 2020 episode of RAW.
In addition to this, the fact Lana never mentioned if she felt the same way poses the question of why Morgan was even thrown in the storyline in the first place.
Unfortunately, the shock factor of her confession convoluted the storyline and ended up leaving several questions unanswered, leaving this love story unresolved.
#4 The fallout of Heavy Machinery following WWE Hell in a Cell
As stated earlier, WWE Superstar Otis has had a very unusual year. In addition to winning Mandy Rose over Dolph Ziggler, he shocked the WWE Universe when he won the Money in the Bank contract just over a month later.
In the six months that Otis held the contract, there was never any real indication that he was ever going to cash it in. This led to The Miz, a former Money in the Bank winner, suing Otis, leading to a match for the contract at the Hell in a Cell pay-per-view.
During that match, WWE Universe witnessed one of the biggest shocks of the year when Tucker attacked Otis with the MITB briefcase. The betrayal came out of nowhere, as there was never any friction between the tag team before that moment. Regardless, it was still an interesting angle to the storyline.
However, after the betrayal, the only thing that came from the storyline was a very brief brawl backstage between the two after the match. Although it can be argued that Otis and Tucker never had a match due to being on different brands shortly afterwards, a match could have taken place at WWE Survivor Series.
However, the pay-per-view didn’t feature Tucker at all, and Otis focused on fighting for brand supremacy instead of seeking revenge on his partner for costing him the biggest opportunity of his career.
Considering the many reasons why tag teams have split up in the past, costing your tag team partner a major WWE Championship contract/opportunity would be ranked among the biggest reasons.
This can be attested to when Bayley betrayed Sasha Banks a few months earlier, when they failed to re-capture the WWE Women’s Tag Team Championship after losing to Shayna Bayzler and Nia Jax.
The fact WWE failed to give an actual match between the two effectively leaves this storyline hanging in the air.
#3 WWE break up The Lucha House Party
For the best part of two and a half years, WWE Superstars Kalisto, Gran Metalik, and Lince Dorado formed the Lucha House Party. However, after Kalisto sustained a shoulder injury and disappeared from screens at the start of 2020, it was down to Metalik and Dorado to represent the whole team in WWE.
Both Metalik and Dorado seemed to prove their value, with an impressive performance competing for the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships at the WWE Elimination Chamber pay-per-view. Metalik also earned a WWE Intercontinental Championship opportunity against AJ Styles.
When Kalisto returned on the 14th August 2020 episode of WWE SmackDown and distracted Shinsuke Nakamura to help Metalik score a shocking win, it appeared that the trio was now going to be stronger than ever.
However, this reunion was short-lived. They failed to win the WWE SmackDown Tag Team Championships from Shinsuke Nakamura and Cesaro on two different occasions, including at the Clash of Champions pay-per-view.
By the time this match ended, Kalisto and Lince Dorado were evidently not on the same page after the Lucha House Party’s continuous losses, which led to them bickering and pushing each other.
This all looked like this would lead to a storyline covering the demise of the Lucha House Party, but that never happened. Less than two weeks later, the team inadvertently split up in the WWE Draft when Kalisto remained on SmackDown while Metalik and Dorado were drafted to RAW.
Nevertheless, considering the trio were together for over two and a half years, and there was clearly some friction between Dorado and Kalisto, it left some unanswered questions in this storyline.
Was the faction officially split up? Did Kalisto and Dorado patch up their differences before they went their separate ways? What was the point of them arguing if they were never going to wrestle each other to settle their differences?
#2 Why didn’t Braun Strowman seek revenge on the Street Profits or The Viking Raiders for damaging his car at WWE Backlash?
There is no doubt that Braun Strowman had the best year of his WWE career in 2020. After randomly being inserted in the Universal Championship storyline as a last-minute replacement for Roman Reigns. Strowman beat Goldberg at WrestleMania 36 for the title.
After defending the WWE Universal Championship against Shinsuke Nakamura and The Fiend, The Monster Among Men looked unstoppable.
His next storyline would be against The Miz and John Morrison, when they would challenge Strowman in a 2-on-1 Handicap Match for the Universal Championship at Backlash. Prior to their match, the two tormented Strowman in several ways, including damaging his car's windshield. Strowman then retaliated by flipping over a van containing the two stars.
At Backlash, after Strowman defeated The Miz and Morrison to retain the Universal WWE Championship, it eventually cut to The Street Profits and The Viking Raiders ongoing storyline.
In this segment, WWE showed the tag-teams brawling outside in a parking lot. We saw Montez Ford throwing Erik on Braun Strowman’s car, breaking the windshield again. Instead of owning up to what happened, all four wrestlers ran away and never admitted what they did.
Considering Strowman said that the car was something he ‘worked his whole life for’ after seeing the damage that Miz and Morrison caused, he didn’t once question anyone who damaged his car on this occasion.
Moreover, he never confronted either the Street Profits or The Viking Raiders. This leaves a gap in this unresolved storyline as it was never explained why Strowman didn't care about his car anymore when it meant absolutely everything to him just a few weeks earlier.
#1 WWE SmackDown hacker storyline
Ominous vignettes surfaced around the start of 2020 in WWE, usually ending with the sinister message ‘The Truth will be heard’. The Hacker appeared to be a fan favorite on the 3rd April episode of WWE SmackDown, when the figure intervened in the Mandy Rose love triangle storyline and exposed Sonya Deville and Dolph Ziggler as the reason that Otis and Mandy Rose never had their date.
Two weeks later, the Hacker delivered another message saying, ‘We have heard all the lies, but when will we hear the truth? Some keep their friends close, others keep their enemies closer’. The message also included clips of various active tag teams at the time.
In addition to this, on the 8th May episode of SmackDown, the Hacker showed more footage of tag team wrestlers, leaving a cryptic message at the end - ‘Payback is coming, and it’s coming real soon’.
As the Hacker already exposed Deville and Ziggler, it appeared they were about to intervene in another storyline, potentially breaking up a tag team. Although some tag teams shown in the clip are no longer together, including Sasha Banks and Bayley, it was never clear who the hacker was specifically trying to expose.
It was eventually confirmed on the 19th October episode of WWE RAW that Mustafa Ali was the mysterious hacker. His reasoning was that he wanted to expose the superstars who ‘plotted and backstabbed each other’. However, what he still failed to mention was which tag team he intended to expose and who was seeking payback from the message he recorded, ultimately leaving this storyline unresolved.
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