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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 00:46:22 No.6431125 View View Reply Original Report

What do you think is the worst wrestling booking decision made in the last 20 years?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 00:46:51 No.6431129 Report

Quoted By: >>6431134 >>6431148 >>6431370 >>6432431 >>6432632 >>6432672 >>6435592

>>6431125
Triple H not going over Taker in the end of an era match

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 00:47:35 No.6431134 Report

Quoted By: >>6431138 >>6432705

>>6431129
shut the fuck up faggot

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 00:48:20 No.6431137 Report

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>>6431125
the correct answer will always be haitch going over booker t at mania after all the racist shit they did leading into the match

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 00:48:23 No.6431138 Report

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>>6431134
Worked

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 00:48:42 No.6431141 Report

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>cuckman Phil
>maineventing WrestleMania

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 00:49:19 No.6431148 Report

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>>6431129
This
It literally should've been the end now the Streak ended in the least memorable way

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 00:50:33 No.6431159 Report

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Quiet crowds in Japan if that counts
Or EVIL's style change when he turned

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 00:50:55 No.6431162 Report

Quoted By: >>6435777

Any decision that didn’t lead to Dolph Ziggler being the main heel for the last 10 years.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 01:14:39 No.6431370 Report

Quoted By: >>6431963 >>6431994 >>6432074 >>6432401

>>6431129
>>6431137
these are both correct. I'll add Brock jobbing to Cena in his first match back in 2012 at the April ppv that was inexplicably titled Extreme Rules instead of Backlash. The predictable Super Cena booking throughout the 00s where he never lost to anyone was unbearable. he didn't have to beat both HBK and HHH at back to back manias.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:17:15 No.6431963 Report

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>>6431370
First thing that comes to my mind is The Nexus burial

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:18:53 No.6431975 Report

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>>6431963
there shouldn't even have been a Nexus. it was a mistake from the word go.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:19:51 No.6431983 Report

Quoted By: >>6431997 >>6432013 >>6433722 >>6433758 >>6435784

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:20:58 No.6431993 Report

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>>6431125
>Phil
>main eventing wrestlemania
There's not a single mania during his time on top that he should've headlined
28/29? Cena/Rock, huge money. 30? Bryan's time.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:21:27 No.6431994 Report

Quoted By: >>6432005

>>6431125
>>6431137
>>6431370
What are these weak ass choices
Objectively worst is Roman vs Brock Mania 34, everything about the booking was cancerously awful, having the match, how Roman got to the match, the match, the finish, the fact it was the main event, the fact that Roman beat Bork at Summerslam anyway

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:21:39 No.6431997 Report

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>>6431983
this shouldn't even have been booked. neither belong in a world title picture in a major organization

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:22:31 No.6432003 Report

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>>6431125
AEW existing

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:22:43 No.6432005 Report

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>>6431994
no one gave a shit about that match in the first place so who cares

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:23:43 No.6432013 Report

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>>6431983
fitting that the sponsor for the match was one of the worst wrestling games of all time

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:25:18 No.6432021 Report

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>>6431125
zoomer trash

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:26:19 No.6432029 Report

Quoted By: >>6432549

Royal Rumble pissing people off every year, 2014 batista winning and rey getting booed for the crime of not being bryan. 2015 roman winning. too predictable and nobody wanted to see it to the point where many were actually dreading it. alberto del rio winning the 2011 forty man royal rumble was atrocious too. del rio being a world champion was also an awful choice too.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:27:26 No.6432036 Report

Quoted By: >>6432081 >>6432754

Any time Triple H won

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:33:04 No.6432074 Report

Quoted By: >>6432344

>>6431137
>>6431370
>racism is... LE BAD!!!1!
shut the fuck up and go back to plebbit you insufferable niggers

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:34:04 No.6432081 Report

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>>6432036
this

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:38:14 No.6432102 Report

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>>6431125
Not turning Cena heel in 2012

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:40:48 No.6432119 Report

Quoted By: >>6432124

Aew existing

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:41:44 No.6432124 Report

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>>6432119
ya seethe bitch?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:42:34 No.6432127 Report

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>>6432124
Dilate

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:43:19 No.6432134 Report

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>>6431125
Kenny omega turning into a smarmie heel to win the aew championship. First run, worst run.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 02:44:30 No.6432138 Report

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Best: Miz eaten by zombies
Worst: AEW

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:00:12 No.6432251 Report

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>>6431125
Making Cena face for so many years. Giving smark favs like Punk and Bryan the belt, Triple H existing.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:05:15 No.6432294 Report

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>>6432124
Step away from the mirror before it breaks

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:06:11 No.6432301 Report

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>>6431125
>What do you think is the worst wrestling booking decision made in the last 20 years?
Reigns squashing Lesnar.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:08:01 No.6432317 Report

Quoted By: >>6432324 >>6432356 >>6432429

>>6431125
Bret Hart leaving because they lacked heels on the roster by 1999 and needed to push Haitch, had Bret stayed they could have ran that back after the corporate ministry angle and never needed to push Haitch

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:09:06 No.6432324 Report

Quoted By: >>6432371

>>6432317
What did keeping Shawn Michaels during the AE actually do for WWE?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:11:17 No.6432344 Report

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>>6432074
actual retard

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:12:47 No.6432356 Report

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>>6432317
if we're talking all time, screwing Bret is the number one answer here for many reasons including the reason you mention but I think OP was looking for in the last 20 yrs which i take to mean 2002-present, maybe because Montreal is too obvious

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:14:18 No.6432371 Report

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>>6432324
he was... an ok commissioner i guess?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:17:18 No.6432401 Report

Quoted By: >>6432436

>>6431370
Brock jobbing to Cena was payback for leaving the way he did in 04 after being given the keys to the lingdom.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:20:55 No.6432429 Report

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>>6432317
Invasion, Reign of Terror were both attributed indirectly by Montreal so you can't include those, the worst one is the Austin Heel Turn because Steve had planned that all along

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:21:05 No.6432431 Report

Quoted By: >>6432492

>>6431129
They dropped the ball by having Brock end the streak, because he didn’t need the rub of being an unstoppable beast since he already was being booked as one. They should’ve had it be Bray Wyatt, but instead they kept burying him and jobbed him out to Big Match John that year.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:21:45 No.6432434 Report

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>>6431125
Roman's push. As a heel he has been fine I guess, but before that...

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:22:15 No.6432436 Report

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>>6432401
oh i figured as much and it doesn't surprise me but they left a lot of money on the table

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:29:06 No.6432492 Report

Quoted By: >>6432530

>>6432431
bray would have been a worse choice than brock, bray had no upside. it could have ended in 2005 with Orton or the 2012 HHH match. or just not break it at all. if Taker beat Brock, then the loss to Roman would have been the streak ender which would have helped roman a lot although i don't know how many would be happy with that

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:31:45 No.6432516 Report

Quoted By: >>6432538 >>6432630

>>6431125
The Edge Cena feud in 2006
>Edge cashes in NYR
>Cena wins royal rumble
>Cena wins at Mania
>Edge wins it back at Summerslam in a triple threat with RVD Cena
>Cena gets his rematch at Unforgiven loses in TLC due to interfence from Lita (Heel shit), Edge retains
>Cena leaves to Smackdown turns heel again, Batista moves back to Raw
>Fans get the obvious Cena Undertaker mega match to headline Wrestlemania
>face Shawn faces heel Rated RKO in a triple threat for the wwe championship
This is literally all they had to do, and they somehow fucked up the easiest feud ever

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:33:57 No.6432530 Report

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>>6432492
With the benefit of hindsight it’s easy to say why Bray shouldn’t have been the one given how his career and relationship with the E is currently. But at the time having Bray be the one made sense given both his and Taker’s supernatural gimmick, it would’ve been a perfect passing of the torch, and Bray was over with the fans unlike Roman. Having Roman break the streak would only have worked if they had him turn heel years before they did, and that never would’ve happened since they were still trying to push him as the new face of the company.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:34:50 No.6432538 Report

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>>6432516
Pretty sure John actually wanted this to happen but politics from Haitch and Stephanie canned it

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:36:08 No.6432546 Report

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Bryan going over Triple H at WM30.

Can you imagine the FUCKING DIMES to finally get the triple threat Evolution match - Batista, Orton, Triple H, all mega stars at the grandest stage of them all in the main event for both top titles.

Smarks may not have liked it, but what would it have mattered? Bryan's run was a complete and utter fucking debacle. A no-heat feud with Kane and then months keeping the title captive because his body couldn't hold up.

Imagine Batista wins that triple threat, and then at SummerSlam you have Brock Lesnar versus Batista. Now that is a fucking main event, that's putting asses on seats.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:36:27 No.6432549 Report

Quoted By: >>6432571

>>6432029
>alberto del rio winning the 2011 forty man royal rumble was atrocious
They should have have let Santino get the win

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:37:31 No.6432556 Report

Quoted By: >>6432594

>>6431125
As a humungous Peep, not giving Christian a proper run in 2011. He should've won the RR match, defeated Edge for big gold at WM27, remain a face, and have an uninterrupted reign until Night of Champions where he could have put Henry over in a big way.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:38:36 No.6432568 Report

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cena going over nexus

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:38:56 No.6432571 Report

Quoted By: >>6432604 >>6435803

>>6432549
This would have been based.

Honestly just wish they'd one day have some completely random ass pull midcard guy win the Rumble, just for the shock factor and because, realistically, it should at one point happen given how the match is made up. You could have him lose the title shot or something but just to say it happened would be neat. They do it with the MITB. Why not the Rumble?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:40:35 No.6432589 Report

Quoted By: >>6432703

Unification of the titles with no plans for what to do after mania is pretty high up there

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:41:17 No.6432594 Report

Quoted By: >>6432722 >>6432823

>>6432556
There's no reason why Rock Cena SHOULDN'T have happened at Wm27, prove me wrong

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:41:28 No.6432596 Report

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>>6432538
Yup. If you go back and watch the last few minutes of the match/ppv he looked so miserable.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:41:31 No.6432597 Report

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Kingston going over Bryan at WM.

Bryan's heel work then was the best stuff he ever did in WWE and it was prematurely cut short. The comparisons between Kingston and himself was cringe-inducing as were the calls that Kingston should get it because he's black and Reddit so badly needed that first black champion (even though that's bullshit).

The guy was a complete shitter which is why he was a midcard for lifer. He had no business in that match with Bryan, who dragged a good match from him but no way should the title have been dropped there. What was the point in the long-run anyway?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:41:55 No.6432604 Report

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>>6432571
The crowd pop would have been huge if Santino had gotten the win

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:43:59 No.6432615 Report

Quoted By: >>6432651

>>6431125
Literally put the final nail in WWE's coffin. It was so bad that Cena even hated it.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:45:08 No.6432620 Report

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>>6431125
Two biggest ones
>The reign of terror
>The Cena/Orton forever feud
Invincible champions only work if the champion is a main event for PPVs. This mainly works because the secondary titles will be the main champions people see and care about on a week-to-week bases, but WWE and wrestling in general have turned secondary champions as a joke and it really started with the WWE.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:45:39 No.6432623 Report

Quoted By: >>6432635

This was pretty high up on the list. It completely killed Shamus as a maineventer

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:46:55 No.6432630 Report

Quoted By: >>6432694

>>6432516
rated rko wouldn't have been formed in this timeline. the entire idea behind it was two guys who kept getting fucked over join forces to wreck shit

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:47:04 No.6432632 Report

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>>6431129
This. He should've buried Taker for being an old shitter who can't draw dimes

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:47:23 No.6432633 Report

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>>6431125
Letting Brock take world titles hostage for months on end and never wrestling on tv. Extreme Rules 2012, Summerslam 2013, Hell in a Cell 2015, and Survivor Series 2017 & 18 are his only good matches in his second run with the company.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:47:52 No.6432635 Report

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>>6432623
one of the greatest backfires in WWE. i feel bad for Sheamus. He wanted to have a real match too.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:50:20 No.6432651 Report

Quoted By: >>6432682

>>6432596
>>6432615
This is where the Ruthless Aggression era ended in my opinion. I think even several weeks after this they even changed the RAW opening theme song.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:52:14 No.6432664 Report

Quoted By: >>6432707 >>6432730

>>6431137
Booker T was never truly main event caliber like HHH and was honestly a weak choice. At his very best, he was upper-midcard, but most of the time he was kind of a silly midcarder. The problem was that everybody believable enough to beat Trips was busy else where (Taker busy, Rock vs Austin) or been vanquished (HBK Kane, to some extent Steiner). And the guy who would actually end up taking the title (Goldberg) wouldn't debut until the night after WM19, so fuck it: Send in Booker.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:52:29 No.6432665 Report

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>>6431125
Tony Khan refusing to give Cody the book.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:53:19 No.6432672 Report

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>>6431129
unironically this

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:53:46 No.6432682 Report

Quoted By: >>6432690 >>6433632

>>6432651
To me it was Mania 23. One of the biggest buyrates ever (thank you, Trump), Cena going over AGAIN, and the Benoit tragedy a few months later ended ruthless aggression. Maria being the last woman to pose nude in Playboy and transitioning to PG a year later was the official death of the company's popularity.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:54:49 No.6432690 Report

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>>6432682
cena only went over because haitch got injured

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:56:59 No.6432694 Report

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>>6432630
This is true, Edge hbk would work well enough by itself and requires little build

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:58:08 No.6432703 Report

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>>6432589
Good point. I think they’re going to use the Money in the Bank cash in to split the titles, make up some shit about how when you cash in it can only be for one of the titles and not both.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:58:34 No.6432705 Report

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>>6431134
He's right, the superkick pedigree was the end, if gaytch ends it hypothetically there you can have brock retire him at summerslam in 2012 for a huge rub without needing to end carder's streak

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 03:59:06 No.6432707 Report

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>>6432664
the problem wasn't that hhh beat booker. it's that they made the storyline purposefully make booker look as weak as possible because he was a wcw guy. all that racist shit, bringing up his criminal history, and the 30 sec wait before pinning him. booker t never recovered from this angle. haitch was an asshole and never got his comeuppance for all the shit he pulled

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:00:56 No.6432722 Report

Quoted By: >>6432756

>>6432594
Rock's return was botched badly. putting him on that poster in a suit with a mic looking like a manager and not a wrestler was not what anyone wanted after all that time. he shouldn't have been there that year. his return should have been announced the next year in 2012, where he can still feud and have the Cena match at mania. instead they wasted 3 years on one match. but yeah if Rock could have gotten in ring shape earlier than they really should have just done it at 27 and got it over with. no excuse for closing with Cena vs Miz, that's never a worthy main event in any year.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:02:12 No.6432730 Report

Quoted By: >>6432742 >>6432871 >>6435633

>>6432664
>>6432707
Pretty based how late 2002/2003 was Triple H running through former WCW/ECW guys. RVD, Booker, Steiner, Nash, eventually Goldberg. Then he eventually did it to Sting too.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:03:35 No.6432742 Report

Quoted By: >>6432761

>>6432730
He was a anti draw that nobody liked so it wasn't based and drove millions of viewers away

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:06:04 No.6432754 Report

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>>6432036
quit hating on Hunter. great look and one of the most over finishers in history. i enjoyed nearly every match he was in

t. Paul

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:06:06 No.6432756 Report

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>>6432722
They had 3 years of huge business, huge WM's and Cena and Rock were popping 1-1.5m extra viewers per promo.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:06:22 No.6432761 Report

Quoted By: >>6432814 >>6432934

>>6432742
Those guys weren't drawing shit. What drove viewers away was that megastar Triple H was facing these literal nobodies. People were wondering why he wasn't facing Taker, Rock and Stone Cold anymore. Who the fuck is this hippy faggot? This shucking and jiving black dude? Diesel, the guy who almost killed the company.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:12:57 No.6432814 Report

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>>6432761
RVD was over as fuck. what are you talking about?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:13:27 No.6432823 Report

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>>6432594
Ideally Rock would have entered the rumble at #30 and simply won it then just beat Cena for the belt at Mania before taking his place at Money in the Bank in the Punk match, with Punk leaving as champ and Rock leaving for hollywood, Cena would just be champion for the rest of 2011 anyway in wwe, you could sell Punk's comeback at the start of 2012 and easily build up to Punk Cena at Mania in a unification match

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:18:17 No.6432871 Report

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>>6432730
based except RVD. RVD was legit over and entertaining. I mean HHH power level was def higher than his so it made sense in WWEcanon, but still beating RVD doesn't even give the good kind of heat for a heel imo

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:20:08 No.6432889 Report

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Krispenwah going over his family was probably the worst thing to happen to WWE booking

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 04:25:56 No.6432934 Report

Quoted By: >>6433820

>>6432761
HHH was never ever a draw, in 1999 per TV appearence Triple H drew a average of 152,000 viewers for his matches and segments despite being featured more on-screen than any other wrestler or screen character in the entire company that year which inflated his total numbers by a insane amount. Here's a list of wrestlers who all pulled higher viewership figures on average than gaytch that year
>Angle - 269.8k
>Edge - 179k
>Christian - 182k
>Ivory - 214k
>Sable - 516k
>Stephanie - 211k
>Austin - 265k
>Shane - 218k
>Michaels - 269k
>Hardy Boyz - 196k
>Jericho - 155k
>Rock - 165k
>Chyna - 208k
>Taker - 251k
>Bret - 182k
>Vince - 298k
The people who did less than HHH in WWE were, the APA, Too Cool, Kane, Mankind, Mark Henry, Owen, Val Venis and the Mean Streat Posse

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:17:02 No.6433431 Report

Quoted By: >>6433493

>>6431125
>Not Having Bray Vs Taker at WM 30
>Not Having Taker Vs Sting at WM 31
>The Nexus burial
>anything with Cena in the early 2010s
>Cesaro never winning the World Championship
>Unifying the World Heavyweight Championship
>Big Dawg Roman Reigns push
>Everything wth Gail Kim
>Anything involving Hogan and TNA
>Most of the booking on the ECW rebirth
>Burying Dolph ZIggler because he did a fucking stand up show
>Plenty of unnecessary Tag Team separations
>A lot of the Invasion
>The lack of Bra and Panties matches
>H's Last Royal Rumble win
>Shane McMahon's return
>Alberto Del Rio's return at HIAC
>Making Christian look like a bitch in that One More Match feud
>Kingston being squashed by Lesnar
>The lost potential of plenty of stars (especially Shemus, Cesaro, Ziggler, Kofi, Ambrose, Ryder)
>Zack Ryder's cuck angle
>Cena not turning heel
>Rock VS Cena 2
>DDP being a pervert
>Umaga

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:23:32 No.6433493 Report

Quoted By: >>6433743

>>6433431
you're such a fucking smark. i knew after the first point but every single one reinforced it.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:35:29 No.6433632 Report

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>>6432682
I see your point, but the signs were there in 2006 with the beginning of the Super Cena run and change of RAW's "Across the Nation" intro which was synonmous with the era, and then in 2007 the transitioning phase began with Santino Marella's debut, putting more emphasis on women straight up wrestling instead of having Bra and Panties matches or anything overly sexual. Hornswoggle-Khali being used more as regular characters. Then the Benoit incident happened, and everything was history, and then in 2008 it became PG. I think Shawn vs Jericho from the summer was like the last literal feud that felt TV-14ish.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:40:56 No.6433717 Report

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>>6431125
Trips not going over Bryan at WM30

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:41:19 No.6433722 Report

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>>6431983
this whole PPV was the biggest endorsement for AEW that has ever happened

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:43:36 No.6433743 Report

Quoted By: >>6433771

>>6433493
Bootlicking jerk tranny

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:45:04 No.6433758 Report

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>>6431983
God, this was so bad.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:46:37 No.6433771 Report

Quoted By: >>6433779

>>6433743
>anyone who disagrees with my s@yboy hot takes is a tranny

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:47:29 No.6433779 Report

Quoted By: >>6433870

>>6433771
Schizo that wasn't even me tranny

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:48:09 No.6433790 Report

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outside of the HITC 2019 world title match, itd have to be 2015 rumble. its fascinating how that whole rumble seems designed to piss everyone off. in a way i like watching it because of well they troll everyone

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:50:28 No.6433820 Report

Quoted By: >>6434189

>>6432934
Shoulda put the strap on Sable

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 05:54:24 No.6433870 Report

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>>6433779
>everyone who disagrees with my smark buttbudy is a tranny and i will defend him by calling the other person a bootlicker
okay you're now morally superiorl congrats

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 06:19:44 No.6434106 Report

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The whole Corbin vs Reigns feud from 2019 was a mess. In-fact, most of everything from that year was.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 06:32:15 No.6434189 Report

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>>6433820
Dumbass zoom zooms seethe at Sable because she drew more dimes in one year then any modern female talent in 10. Women wrestlers should only be eye candy, not workrate smark loving bums.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 11:14:54 No.6435592 Report

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>>6431129

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 11:17:52 No.6435604 Report

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>>6431125
>something something womeme wrestling
>worst booking decision

Twitterfags need to be shot

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 11:20:56 No.6435620 Report

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Legend killer Orton not ending the streak

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 11:23:16 No.6435633 Report

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>>6432730
Yeah, it was so based that it killed most fans desire to ever watch wrestling again. Cheers Paul.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 11:47:02 No.6435756 Report

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The burial of Ryder might not seem like the worst but I think it was pretty bad when you consider the effect it had on the locker room. In a shoot interview Hawkins said that it destroyed the moral of the whole locker room cause everyone realized that the brass ring was bullshit.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 11:51:55 No.6435777 Report

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>>6431162
So they killed Paul then had Bobby Roode shave his head to pretend like he's still alive right?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 11:53:23 No.6435784 Report

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>>6431983
>NOOOOOO YOU SHOULD JUST BE ALLOWED TO MURDER YOUR OPONENT BY SMASHING HIS HEAD IN WITH A SLEGDHAMMER
Do obese smarks really?

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 11:54:13 No.6435790 Report

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>>6435756
It's the guy's best friend saying that, to be fair

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 11:56:39 No.6435803 Report

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>>6432571
Because the guy that wins the rumble gets a world title match at Mania and you need someone believable to sell tickets. I think Drew winning it in 2020 was pretty unexpected though

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 12:04:47 No.6435842 Report

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2015 WM

Literally just swap Roman, Bryan and Cena round. Cena in the IC ladder match, he wins and does the open challenge for the prestigious workhorse belt. Roman defends the USA against evil foreigner Rusev, gives Roman a test run as a solo act. Bryan wins the Rumble after his big return and gets the Brock match at WM. Tremendous underdog babyface vs the monster heel match, pull out all the stops. Seth can even still cash in and be made for life. The fans were happy when Seth came out to screw Roman. Imagine if Bryan was getting squashed for 20 minutes and then had the mother of all comebacks only for Seth to take him out and steal the title. If Bryan still has injury/concussion issues then have Seth go further and end Bryan's career. Then they could build Roman up to take Seth down at WM '16.

>>6435756
Ryder was massively over, moving merch and pioneering social media shit way before it truly took off. The guy was done so dirty. The fucking Rock came back and the fans were chanting for Ryder over him.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 12:18:15 No.6435910 Report

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>>6435756
Ryder taking an entire episode of Raw to change one (1) tyre made me pop.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 12:39:02 No.6436038 Report

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>>6431125

Seeing as how this now excludes the InVasion and Austin's Turn, I'd say Roman Reigns' original face run wins handsdown.

The guy was hugely over with The Shield, and had serious potential was a top babyface if Vince hadn't insisted on making him the least-coolest man in the entire universe from 2015 to his merciful heel turn in 2020. He was also hurt by the fact that fans wanted Mox to be the top guy instead, but they could've compensated by not making Roman so fucking lame.

By the standards of ratings and popularity decline, this is the easy winner.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 14:03:12 No.6436415 Report

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WWE went to shit the second they hired CM Phil. Nobody believed that a skinny fat queer like Phil could hang with wrestlers like Triple H, Undertaker, Edge, and John Cena. Then they started hiring more and more indie darings and WWE has never been the same.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 14:05:54 No.6436429 Report

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>>6435803
>Because the guy that wins the rumble gets a world title match at Mania and you need someone believable to sell tickets

Do you really though? Prior to this year's Mania, and probably soon again, there are two men's world titles and two women's. Frequently the Royal Rumble winner does not headline the show, so you don't need to rely on them being the marquee match and there will be other world title matches.

Moreover cases like Kofi Kingston prove they can take a guy from midcarder to main eventer in the span of a few months, so having someone like that win the RR would be a similar way to propel them, and then you continue to build until Mania.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 14:07:42 No.6436444 Report

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>>6436038
>He was also hurt by the fact that fans wanted Mox to be the top guy instead, but they could've compensated by not making Roman so fucking lame.

When he was initially pushed hard, they wanted Bryan. That's what killed him.

The 2015 Rumble was the biggest trainwreck in Rumble history. Why the fuck did they bring Bryan back if he wasn't winning giving how over he was? Why did they have Reigns sit in the fucking corner all Rumble? It's like they were trying to piss people off.

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Anonymous Sun 17 Jul 2022 14:11:28 No.6436454 Report

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anyone saying the nexus burial is a mark. burying them was the only way to salvage that abortion of an angle. the nexus made the whole company look bad and drove away viewers. it was even worse than the awful millionaires club vs new blood storyline in 2000 wcw. the nexus was basically the new blood and wade barrett was the mike sanders. nobody wants to watch these people. they're not stars and never will be. it's amateur hour.

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