5 big WWE storylines that backfired

#2 Who ran over Stone Cold? - 2000

Almost a year after he was run over on Survivor Series in 1999, Stone Cold Steve Austin returned with a vengeance to the WWE in the autumn of 2000 to find his attacker. After confronting a number of potential suspects, it was eventually revealed to be Rikishi driving the car that ran over and put the Texas rattlesnake out of action for close to a year.

All though initially the idea of having Rikishi helping out his cousin the Rock, by putting Austin out of action, made sense, it was an underwhelming culmination of the storyline. Rikishi had previously been one of the most over babyfaces in the company and there wasn't a long way he and Stone Cold could take their rivalry.

Austin did get his revenge on Rikishi at No Mercy in 2000 and afterwards, it was revealed that Triple H was the mastermind behind the plan to run Austin over. This shift in plotline was clearly WWE realising they had made a mistake and that Rikishi was not right for the role.

Clearly, the WWE missed a golden opportunity with this storyline. If the mystery diver had been revealed to be someone like Chris Jericho, Kurt Angle or Undertaker then there could have been a bigger rivalry built. It was a disappointing end to an intriguing story.