10 Biggest Retcons In Wrestling History

3. Kofi Kingston Is No Longer Jamaican Me Crazy

Fun fact, Kingston is the capital city of Jamaica. That’s why Kofi Kingston was called Kofi Kingston, like if a British person appeared he’d be Larry London, or if he was French he’d be Pierre Paris, because WWE is a baby show for babies.

Okay actually to be fair to WWE for once, Kofi Kingston was the name that Kofi used on the indie circuit before joining WWE, like the whole Jamaican angle was his idea, to differentiate himself from guys like the Ghanian Prince Nana in Ring of Honor, so yes, fair enough there.

Does still make it super weird though when WWE heavily pushed him as Jamaican in backstage promos for like, a year before suddenly dropping it.

On September 21, 2009, he was billed as Jamaican, his next appearance on Raw two weeks later, he’s billed as being from Ghana, no accent, no Jamaican themed headband, but he still kept his Jamaican theme (in fairness it rules) and crucially the name Kofi Kingston.

Weird that, suddenly Larry london was from Paris now with nary another mention of when he was an actual Jamaican outside of a famous promo a few weeks later, which saw Triple H bring it up like a cheeky boy.

He asked him, hey… aren’t you supposed to be Jamaican, and god how I wished Kofi had responded, hey… aren’t you supposed to be French?

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2. Kane’s Big Normal Face

Oh man, this one’s some bulllllls**t. Ever since his big red debut at Bad Blood in 1997, Kane’s disfigurement has been a bit, shall we say, all over the f**king place.

First of all he couldn’t talk, then he talk with the existence of a voice box, then he could talk because [checks notes] X-pac taught him how with the power of friendship and sucking it, then his full body scarring was revealed to not be full body when he started wearing his sexy see-through singlet.

But despite all of this there was always one thing that was true, one constant, and that was Kane had a hideous burned face under that mask. There was a fire, set by The Undertaker lest we forget, and then left Kane with a permanent facial disfigurement, this is 100% true, and was until June 23, 2003, when he unmasked on Raw to reveal… nothing.

Sort of black smudges, like he was a Victorian f**king chimneysweep, and frasier crane hair. ‘Is that a human’ shouted JR, ‘yes JR yes it is’.

I mean what were they gonna do, have Glenn Jacobs wrestled in prosthetics forever? So his facial disfigurement was retconned as air quotes ‘mental scarring’ and Kane was allowed to go through life with a normal face. Good for him.

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1. Hornswoggle, In Every Fucking Respect

Audible sigh. Over the years, Hornswoggle really has been a mythical creature, in that he’s whatever you need him to be in the moment, and his backstories are as inconsistent as snowflake patterns.

Throughout his career, Hornswoggle has been the following things, mute until he wasn’t, Vince McMahon’s son until he wasn’t, Finlay’s son until he wasn’t, an actual leprechaun until he wasn’t, anonymous Raw GM until he wasn’t, living under the ring until he wasn’t, a member of DX until he wasn’t, a little cow until he wasn’t, he is all things to all men, he who can be in all places at once, he is the shortening of the way, the one true kwisatz haderach.

Hope you all have seen Dune, because i’m not explaining those references.

Until his release in 2016, Hornswoggle spent his WWE life as the ultimate human prop, who technically had one single unbroken continuity in WWE, one unedited backstory, but one that was constantly rewritten depending on when Vince thought it would be funny to have a little person onscreen…wrestling!

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