Nah. WWF had a plane go down on the way back from one of their international tours, and those guys are lost on a deserted island. 1 Month later they all come back looking rough and dirty. Funaki doesn't come back because the others went nuts due to starvation and were forced to eat him. Of course, Funaki was evil (indeed) so he has cursed them into jobbing like he did for the next 7 years, and William Regal, who couldn't quite master the english language gets saddled with speaking Japanese and being the new Smackdon numbah one annoucah..
I wish I had more time to ponder this but Im short..so uh..yeah..