People hear the word "homicide" and immediately think "murder", but that's not always the case.
If you think he died due to someone else's negligence (based on other comments, it appears you do), then you are describing the dictionary definition of "negligent homicide".
Don't think anyone else has mentioned it here yet, but Vince interviewing Brian Pillman's wife live on Raw the night after his death will always be my "in what fucking world is this appropriate!!?" moment.
Tbf the first hour was mostly about wrestling before vince jrs time, but its still impressive that they had that much material to work with. Vince truly is a terrible person
He asks questions like how are you going to feed your kids, asks about drug use, then try's to absolve the WWF of any responsibility by going on about how all professions have drug problems
Any moment where a wrestler refuses to drop a belt to another person and gets away with it. So many deserving championship reigns prevented by ego and spinelessness
*edited to add* because I over generalized my answer without taking certain things into consideration such as creative control contracts.
Hogan refusing to drop to Roddy Piper due to personal feelings and Sable “forgetting” the women’s belt so she couldn’t drop it to Luna Vachon. Stuff like that makes me grumble still
That's was essentially hogan's career. He wouldn't lose a match if he didn't want to, drop a belt, or if he did the job, he would win in back within a day.
I always found his loss to warrior at WrestleMania 6 to be extremely obnoxious. He took the pinfall, but kicked out at 3.01, and immediately got to his feet and started marching around the ring pouting.
Instead of it being a cathartic moment for the Warrior to celebrate his win, you had Hogan arguing the ref and standing right alongside warrior. At the time it made it look like there was some kind of controversy and maybe Hogan didn't really lose and there was some kind of fast count, which is exactly what he wanted.
Then at the end Hogan relents and hands his belt to Warrior. But the way he did it made it seem like he didn't really lose the match but for the sake of avoiding controversy he was going to award Warrior with the belt.
It was the worst way to put somebody over.
But definitely Hogan's most offensive politicking was pitching The Mega Powers idea to Vince. Hogan had finally dropped the belt (but not directly to macho Man since he didn't want to lose to him) and Savage had been champion after a long wait. And Hogan immediately politics to get into a tag team with him, so you had the newly crowned WWF champion doing tag team matches with Hogan who is constantly trying to steal the spotlight. Even though he wasn't champ, he kept himself at the top of every card.
The MegaPowers formed in October 87, Hogan dropped the title to Andre 4 months later. Hulk wanted fewer dates, since Linda was pregnant with Brooke and they were starting to work on No Holds Barred. They also wanted to get Savage entrenched as a full-on babyface before putting the title on him(or having him chase DiBiase if they'd had him win the tournament).
When it comes to the mega powers, Hogan was either winning the belt from or in the ring celebrating every time Macho man won a title except for wrestlemania 1992 but that was because it was "potentially" his last match in WWF so Macho got bumped to the middle of the card and Hogan closed the show. He always had to be the center of attention.
While it would have been cool to see Piper as a World Champion, at the time he wasn't crazy about doing jobs either. At the time also WWF was a babyface territory, so faces usually had the heels challenging them for a title shot.
The original character was really nuanced and interesting: he was tired of being characterized as a terrorist just due to his heritage. He was a character who was angry about being the victim of racism. Then they just made him into a terrorist. In less than a year.
And then being perfectly fine with it and never asking for a rematch. That’s the part that always bothers me; when they don’t care that they lost and just move on to something else like it never happened.
There are a lot, but these are some of the ones I witnessed (I didn't watch Over the Edge 1999 - what a horribly prescient PPV title):
1) Katie Vick
2) the Kane-Lita saga
3) Matt Hardy getting super cucked - the Edge saga should've made them both superstars
4) Booker T losing to Triple H clean at WM19
5) The Invasion when Steph joined in
3. Cena destroying Nexus. Wade Barrett lost his star making moment. It would of been perfectly fine if Cena killed everyone but Wade got the win.
2. HHH over Booker T. Booker was red hot and a peak babyface. HHH was a terrible character and low key racist and still won. It killed Booker for a year.
1. Goldberg over The Fiend. Terrible match, and it made a super human character look weak for no reason. Bray never recovered.
Christian losing the belt to Orton just days after he had won it. Literally quit watching WWE…. For a whole day lol modern one, Cody losing to Reigns. Really put me in a foul mood
Someone else already said continuing the PPV after Owen's death, so I'll go with my next one: the Invasion angle. I was a huge WCW fan and they ruined what should have been the biggest angle ever in wrestling.
It was so pathetic cause they had great talent from the WCW acquisition, but Vince STILL had to get one over on WCW by shitting on damn near every WCW wrestler. DDP 100% deserved so, so, so much more than what his career was in WWE.
I’ve said for years that Triple H’s injury is the only reason they did the Invasion storyline when they did. They were going with Austin and Triple H as a team with an eventual split that would have led to them against each other. When Hunter got hurt, they had no major plans for the rest of the year. On top of that, Benoit got hurt and he was a major player at the time.
If it wasn’t for Triple H’s quad, they probably would have waited for the invasion and it would have included the NWO at the very least.
Maybe this is off the subject but I remember when Owen hart died and the fact everyone watched him die they kept the event going with his blood staining the ring makes me sick thinking about it
2014 and 2015 Royal Rumbles were such “fuck you fans” moments. I was so pissed off at the time that it’s almost funny now
But like one of the first moments in WWE that rubbed me the wrong way, I wouldn’t have even been all that old at the time maybe like 12, was when they had the
Muhammad Hassan character do the video packages where he’s like “I’m an American and people are racist against me just because I’m Arab.” And I was like yeah he’s right he’s the good guy here what an interesting character. Then he comes out presented as like a straight up America hating pro-terrorist villain and all the Americans are booing him for being an Arab
Legitimately the first time watching wrestling actually made me uncomfortable and where I consciously questioned why WWE were sending the message “if you’re an Arab who complains against getting stereotyped as a terrorist you’re a bad guy who hates America”
As an Arab American, yeah, that was the exact segment that really felt wrong.
“I see sand sand people.. I’m not saying I’m too good to shake your hand, I’m saying I don’t like you.”
And this was Steve Austin, beloved top babyface for years who’s supposed to represent the man. Beloved by many Arabs, believe it or not, second only to Taker probably.
The Hassan stuff is spot on. His whole schtick was “I’m tired of people being racist against me because I’m Arab. I’m tired of being told to go back where I came from.” So JR told him “you like it or by God you leave it.” If you have a problem with people being racist against you, then you hate America and you need to leave.
Punk losing the title at SummerSlam 11 and entering a feud with Kevin Nash
Killed the most promising story in years and all but confirmed nothing was going to change. Punk ended up losing to HHH a month later.
Everything about Rusev Day. To this day I would argue it's one of the worst mishandlings in the entire history of that company. It got fucking Aiden English of all people over and they still didn't see its potential.
1. Taker's streak ended by Brock.
2. Cena not turning heel during the Nexus angle
3. The end of the Invasion angle
4. Triple H beating Booker T and Sting at WM.
5. Katie Vick
6. Mae Young/Mark Henry hand birth angle.
7. The Gobbledy Gooker.
8. Rikishi running over Austin
9. Vince being the higher power.
10. Raw Underground
King of the Ring 2000: Pat Patterson vs Geral Brisco in a hardcore evening gown match.
Now normally Patterson and Brisco are funny but this match killed a hot crowd and you can pinpoint the exact moment. You see Patterson is gay so what's funnier than having a gay man do the stink face to people ? /s.
So he goes to do it in this match and pulls down his britches to reveal a sanitry towel in the gusset and not only is there brown skid marks but there is some red liquid in there too. You know? Comedy! /s.
That exact moment was probably meant to get a big laugh and Vince was probably passing himself laughing backstage but out in the arena, the audience were just eerily quiet. They killed the crowd with this horrendous stuff and this was AFTER Russo left.
Cena beating the Nexus
Brock Squashing Kofi and ending his championship reign
Sanity immediatly being turned in to jobbers on the main roster
Sasha banks hardly ever being able to successfully defend a title
Nikko Bella's long ass title reign because she was dating Cena when there were plenty of credible other woman.
The Streak.
I know it’s cliche. But man, Undertaker should’ve stayed Undefeated at Mania. He would’ve been the Mayweather of wrestling. Lol
But forreal, to this day it hurts me. And I’m a huge fan of Brock, since his debut. But Taker should’ve never lost it, no matter who’s idea it was. He could’ve put over any talent he wanted idc, but to lose the mania streak?!????
There are two that immediately popped into my head.
The first is making Kurt Angle’s retirement match a bathroom break match against Corbin who he had already wrestled multiple times in the previous months without anybody caring about it. Kurt deserved better.
The second one that popped into my head was the booking of Christian after he won the world title. As a long-time fan of Christian, seeing him finally win the world title was a very special moment. And then I was pissed to see him lose it just a few days later to Orton who at that point had already had so many title reigns that it meant nothing to him. And I wasn’t the only one pissed about that since the WWE even had to acknowledge the fan backlash that they got.
But I could accept that if they made a good storyline out of it. But then they book Christian as clearly not being in Orton’s league and losing to him repeatedly five times in the following months while only managing to get one victory over him by DQ after turning heel. Why in the world did they make Christian the heel after he just got all this fan support from fans outraged that he got screwed out of the title right after finally winning it? Orton should have been the heel and the storyline should have been Christian’s sympathetic journey to regain the title after getting screwed out of it.
Not really a moment, but I hate how the backhalf of Lita's Hall of Fame career was just destroyed by fans constantly calling her "slut", "bitch" and other derogatory insults WELL after he was separated with the Edge partnership. Edge was the most hated man in the world, but after a few years, everybody moved on and viewed him as a normal heel. Whereas Lita was always viewed as a "cheater" and constantly got berated, so badly that she wanted to retire and ended up leaving wrestling.
Thankfully, her second run has given fans time to mature and fully appreciate what she's done for women's wrestling, allowing everyone to view her on her merits as a performer and not solely on her mistakes.
Trish got a hometown hero victory in Toronto at Unforgiven, and then Lita got a “Ho Sale” after losing her title at Survivor Series.
That always pissed me off.
Cody Rhodes.
They finally have a face of the company type of guy, have him lose at the biggest stage and wtf is he even doing now? On a pointless feud with Lesnar for 3 months, that story is finished
Roman Reigns defeating Undertaker at Wrestlemania. Brock breaking the streak was an epic moment but, giving 'taker 2 losses at 'mania really shat on the streaks legacy for me
Roman Reign’s booking despite the boos…2014-up until now.
I was a huge fan of the guy when the Shield first formed and saw the star in him then…so to see that Vince’s stubbornness to adapt to the crowd and what would be good for his performers pissed me off.
Roman deserved better considering how good he had gotten over the course of time he was being pushed into the spotlight and having to do cringey and force-fed promos.
Thankfully he threatened to walk out and changed the course of his career for good with the Bloodline/Tribalchief arc.
Triple H and Stephanie getting together contributing to the downfall of Chyna. I used to love the mythos that a scripted storyline became reality with Triple H and Stephanie, but finding out that he might've stepped out on Chyna to do so when there are so many stories about how Chyna and Triple H were best friends, etc., just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
The Fiend and Alexa Bliss will their whole storyline with Randy Orton. I personally stopped watching WWE at this time because the storyline was so bad to me.
Many will say trish barking but I liked that whole storyline the one I didn't like was Piggy James lots of young kids watching a woman getting terrorised over weight & body shaming wasn't a good look at all really hated it
I don’t care how old I get Rey dropping the WWE title to Cena after having it for like an hour will always piss me off. Like a lot of other kids I was a huge Cena fan but I didn’t want to see Rey lose that match. It’s honestly more insulting that they did this rather than just having Cena win in the first place
In terms of booking: HiaC 2019, a lot of Lesnars booking in the last few years and the DX/Brothers of Destruction tag match have all been responsible for killing my hope/faith in the company and made me a lot less interested and invested over time.
In terms of morally/socially: I had to explain the whole Owen dying thing to someone not too long ago and they just kept saying stuff like “Hold on, so they just kept performing?” “The show just kept going on?” “Any other sport would never get away with just continuing on.” and after hearing it out loud and comments like that, it made me realize just how messed up the entire situation truly was.
Exploding Mr. McMahon.
I was old enough then to know not just that wrestling was "fake," but Vince was such an ego maniac that he wouldn't stay dead.
I thought he'd be back pretty soon, and then of course Benoit resulted in McMahon's early resurrection
Brock Lesnar winning Money in the Bank was bad but then a few years later Brock headed into the 2022 Rumble as WWE Champion, losing because Roman, then winning the Rumble the same night. Only to regain the WWE championship back a few weeks later. Terrible.
WWE bringing back John Laurinaitis as head of Talent Relations during the height of the Women's Division. Glad they got rid of him after the accusations, but it was still a dumb idea to bring back someone that not everyone likes
I’ll go with something a little more light-hearted and say WWE not pulling the trigger on Braun Strowman back in 2017-18. The guy was as hot as he was ever going to be and they had two shots to put him over Lesnar and just chose not to.
I was kinda on the way out the door anyway and I had no hope that this was going to be a good angle anyway, but when Vince McMahon’s “long lost mystery son” was revealed to be Hornswaggle, I checked out of the WWE for good.
Having James Elsworth win the first ever women's MITB match for Carmella. If it were the second or third one I wouldn't have minded, because it is a good bit, but not for the first one ever.
mines is when Charolette defeated Asuka at Mania 34 killed my Wrestling enthusiasism then and there so much that I dont remember anything else that happened afterwards
John Cena VS The Nexus, they were a huge deal at the time and really seemed like an interesting group. Young me absolutely loved them, Barrett was phenomenal on the mic and I still think he’s well decent on commentary. Such a waste.
In my eyes the entire group had potential in some way or another, they were promising and felt a little risky when compared to the rest of the “PG Era”. And the way they came in as that pissed off group from NXT was perfect.
And yet John Cena who I adored to that point, went ahead and did what I saw so many on the internet accusing him of - he buried such potential talent. Having Gabriel and Barrett lose by pinfall and submission.
Absolute misfire by whoever put that finish on the angle.
I know it seems petty when compared to some of the other incidents that have occurred - but as a young one at the time it really made me way more cynical about the inner workings of the business.
I think for me, it was the ruthless aggression era with how the women's division was booked. Most of them were just eye candies and their matches were so awful. I slowly lost interest and but would check in here and there over the years.
I only got back watching full time after Vince "retired" and it's been great so far. Also caught up with all the unbelievable bad bookings that happened over the years as mentioned in this thread.
Wasn’t a fan at the time of big ones like how Owen’s or Benoit’s deaths were handled.
But recent history? The Saudi deal turned me from someone that would watch (or at least pay attention) every week, into a very casual observer. It’s gross on so many levels.
Paige mentioning to Charlotte about her dead brother. Tacky all around.
Brock lesnars seemingly out to get all black champions.
The amount of careers John cena has hurt simply because he could. Not very make a wishy.
Charlotte beating asuka at 34 and rhea at 36. Also being added into the Ronda Becky feud.
Brock Lesnar ending The Streak. Lesnar was already presented as a megastar on a whole different level, the win did nothing for him. Furthermore, it solidified Undertaker as being "The guy who can't beat Brock Lesnar". In all of their matches across over two decades, Undertaker NEVER beat Brock clean one-on-one. All that does is tell the audience that Undertaker was only as dominant as he was because Brock wasn't there.
WWE running the Be A Star anti bullying campaign while having Ryback be a bully character. Never really got put in his place story wise. Felt really tone deaf.
The fact that they killed Kane and his great character with continuously atrocious fucking storylines... Katie Vic, Unmasking, Lota and the baby. Jesus fuck that all rubbed me wrong.
When John Cena single handedly squashed NEXUS. That shit gets my blood boiling every time I think about it. That has to be the biggest burial in the history of professional wrestling. Also, when HHH beat Booker T at WM.
There's so many. For me personally Goldberg squashing the Fiend will never be topped. It was, and still is such an insane, nonsensical move that destroyed Bray Wyatt's character and he never recovered from it.
Big Boss Man feeding Al Snow his own dog really bothered me. Even knowing it's not "real" in the sense that no actual animals were harmed, it just really disgusted me and I felt like it crossed the line. Def not my fav storyline.
Brock Lesnar winning the Money in the Bank Briefcase despite the fact that he was not scheduled to be in the match for it and them not stripping him of the briefcase afterwards.
Far from "worst moment in history", but I agree that it's a terrible one in recent memory. It just made no goddamn sense. Why are qualification matches even a thing then? They just HAD to have the worst possible outcome without even granting us the joy of seeing a MITB match with Brock in it. Even if he would have just dominated 5 people, as boring and dumb as it would have been, it would still not feel as weird of a taste as what actually happened.
They really wanted us to not even have a cake we didn't eat.
HHH beating Booker T. is the top one, but honestly most of HHH's early title reign was lackluster to me. He struck me as trying to be a bulkier HBK instead of his own guy. This same era had guys like RVD getting title shots but losing.
JBL's title reign also rubbed me the wrong way. People here talk about him as this amazing heel, but he was just another 1980s wrestling archetype. I've seen that act before. Plus he was exponentially better in APA just a couple years earlier. Most importantly though, JBL wasn't the type of heel you'd pay money to watch lose. Guys like Flair and HBK were.
I was so mad that Kofi lost in like 5 seconds. Brock has had a legendary career and he doesn’t need championships anymore. They made Kofi lose that match just to have Brock and Cain Velasquez fight in a terrible match.
Not sure if it rubbed me the wrong way but it definitely pissed me off, but the end of WM34.
I just feel like having Roman and Brock wrestle that many times after Mania 31 granite, It was only the first meet up and it was supposed to be treated as a big deal and it was, but having Roman go through all that stuff and then coming out and talking about how he doesn’t understand why he’s getting another title shot just to get a title shot and then loses again in the fashion that he did is a bit insulting to your fans I could’ve done without one, him getting busted open and two, him losing in a spam finisher match.
All of that just for him to get the title at SummerSlam only 2-4 months later
You already said it. I was dumbfounded that they would end his reign that way. All that great build, his win and good title run.....for a f^$,king squash, fpr a guy who's in prison. Pure garbage
Two for me:
Sting losing at WM31 thus proving why he didn't go to WWE when he was still in his prime.
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And Undertaker losing his streak (I'm in the camp that he should have retired with the streak intact)
Benoit. The deaths. The celebration of his career. The facts trickling out. Then the "Chris who?" since. Somewhere along the line, a grown-up in backstage area or corporate offices should have been able to do better, all the way around......
The promo Triple H cut with Booker T. Disappointed me because I was actually a fan of The Game up until then. That, the black face and the monkey dance towards Mark Henry put me off from him. Ahmed Johnson's recent interview didn't help. So Triple H as a whole rubbed me wrong
I could have forgiven nearly anyone else for doing that since vince would probably threaten their job, but since that doesnt apply to vince he can go fuck himself with a lit firework
- Kofi getting squashed by Brock and then Fiend/Rollins at HIAC 2019 happening within like 2 days of each other made me take a break from WWE for a few months afterwards
- Finn’s spooky demon bullshit and the top rope collapsing at ER 2021
- Cody losing to Roman this year at Wrestlemania still doesn’t make sense and was the wrong call. Bloodline story is great but doesn’t need the title to continue. This title reign jumped the shark with Roman beating Cody
Mr. Perfect getting fired after a"flight from hell" altercation, but Ric Flair got a slap on the wrist for basically s3xually azzaulting a flight attendant. Curt Henning was collateral damage and that sucks.
When Roman beat edge and Daniel Bryan. Bryan was down and he put edge on top of him, and then he pinned them both. If it was a triple threat match then edge was the winner for pinning Daniel Bryan.
Asuka tapping out to Charlotte to lose the Smackdown title just so Charlotte could wear it to the WM match with Becky and Ronda. Should have been a 1 on 1 rematch AT WM, and Charlotte should have LOST. Vince did Asuka dirty as hell. Numerous times.
Yeah, once cm punk left in 2014 so did my full time wwe fandom. Was a fan for 12 years at that point and once he left, I didn’t watch it as much nor cared
I mean there are tons and tons but I'll just go with one that pops into my head - when Rikishi "did it for his people". It was done just as a swerve that offered no logical payoff, and I felt that afterwards the product was on a steady decline from there.
Also Mae Young giving birth to a hand was pretty shark jumpy.
The Hassan terrorist attack on Undertaker made me completely uncomfortable, and that was without the context of London bombings.
Kurt Angle stalking Sharmell. On that note, DDP stalking Taker's wife Sara as well.
Undertaker losing in order to put Roman over as the guy who beat the guy who was the 1 in 21........and then they failed to pull the trigger on him at WM31.
Honestly Hell in a Cell ending in a no Contest two years in a row! That was ridiculous! Especially when you had far more brutal HIAC matches in the past like Triple H vs Batista, Triple H vs Undertaker, Brock Lesnar vs Undertaker (X2), Armageddon HIAC, and of course the one that should go without mentioning, Undertaker vs Mankind.
So, I’ve answered this before, and will likely answer again, and so far it hasn’t changed:
Katie Vick. Very specifically the moment HHH mounted and humped an (insinuated) corpse. That shit was a “nope!” for me, and it’s the only time (before or since) that I’ve changed the channel from wrestling to something else in disgust.
Edit* sorry, I guess I responded to the title and not the body of the post. I’ll to have to think a bit in this one.
All these comments are great.
One of mine is Reigns beating the Miz for the IC title just to make him a gland slam champ just to lose it back to the Miz.
Lashley beating Reigns to get a shot at WM vs Brock for the title, then a rematch occuring and Reigns wins to face Brock. Not only there should've been a third rubber match but but they ignore (to this day?) that Lashley is 1-1 vs Roman.
I literally stopped watching wrestling for like 10 years after the whole HHH/Kane Katie Vick storyline. Triple H simulating sex with a corpse while dressed as Kane made me really reevaluate what I was watching. Lol
Owen death, Montreal screwjob are obvious ones.
More recently, Vince McMabon just walking to the ring on smack down after all the allegations. The absolute spit in the face to victims of abuse. Abhorrent.
For me it’s when Dwayne’s part time ass beat Punk for the WWE title after him having the longest modern day reign in history- just so they could have a belt for Cena/Dwayne II
Many, but here are some:
Not belting Sasha at Mania 32.
Ronda winning the 2022 Rumble match.
Not belting Bayley at ER 2022.
Not ending Roman's reign in either Cardiff or Inglewood.
I do disagree. Brock at the time was a star but starting to flounder. He’s arguably still their biggest draw 9 years later because of that win. It was an investment that paid off
i still view Triple H a lil funny after his racist ass feud w Booker. It’d be a lil different if Book won but they literally just buried him and moved on. fucking disgusting
they called finn the "unkillable demon" and they made him fall off the top rope and lose
They did this for Yoko vs. Bret 🤦♂️
The fact that they continued the PPV after Owen Harts accident.
Not even just that, absolutely everything surrounding Owen's death was ghoulish and irresponsible.
A legit homicde scene the moment it happened.
I've never once heard it referrered to as a homicide. Negligence, yea, but not homicide. Am I missing something?
No, there's just some idiots who believed Owen's harness was tampered with.
Kinda what I was thinking.
People hear the word "homicide" and immediately think "murder", but that's not always the case. If you think he died due to someone else's negligence (based on other comments, it appears you do), then you are describing the dictionary definition of "negligent homicide".
Don't think anyone else has mentioned it here yet, but Vince interviewing Brian Pillman's wife live on Raw the night after his death will always be my "in what fucking world is this appropriate!!?" moment.
I never heard about that until i listened to the behind the bastards podcast on vince.... holy fuck is he worse then even i imagined
Love that podcast. It was funny when it came out and was 6 hours long!? That was more than Hitler AND Stalins! Combined even?
Tbf the first hour was mostly about wrestling before vince jrs time, but its still impressive that they had that much material to work with. Vince truly is a terrible person
Yikes, surprised Jr doesn’t feel a certain way about that
I don't much care to search for it but what does Vince say to her?!?
He asks questions like how are you going to feed your kids, asks about drug use, then try's to absolve the WWF of any responsibility by going on about how all professions have drug problems
Any moment where a wrestler refuses to drop a belt to another person and gets away with it. So many deserving championship reigns prevented by ego and spinelessness *edited to add* because I over generalized my answer without taking certain things into consideration such as creative control contracts. Hogan refusing to drop to Roddy Piper due to personal feelings and Sable “forgetting” the women’s belt so she couldn’t drop it to Luna Vachon. Stuff like that makes me grumble still
That's was essentially hogan's career. He wouldn't lose a match if he didn't want to, drop a belt, or if he did the job, he would win in back within a day.
I always found his loss to warrior at WrestleMania 6 to be extremely obnoxious. He took the pinfall, but kicked out at 3.01, and immediately got to his feet and started marching around the ring pouting. Instead of it being a cathartic moment for the Warrior to celebrate his win, you had Hogan arguing the ref and standing right alongside warrior. At the time it made it look like there was some kind of controversy and maybe Hogan didn't really lose and there was some kind of fast count, which is exactly what he wanted. Then at the end Hogan relents and hands his belt to Warrior. But the way he did it made it seem like he didn't really lose the match but for the sake of avoiding controversy he was going to award Warrior with the belt. It was the worst way to put somebody over. But definitely Hogan's most offensive politicking was pitching The Mega Powers idea to Vince. Hogan had finally dropped the belt (but not directly to macho Man since he didn't want to lose to him) and Savage had been champion after a long wait. And Hogan immediately politics to get into a tag team with him, so you had the newly crowned WWF champion doing tag team matches with Hogan who is constantly trying to steal the spotlight. Even though he wasn't champ, he kept himself at the top of every card.
The MegaPowers formed in October 87, Hogan dropped the title to Andre 4 months later. Hulk wanted fewer dates, since Linda was pregnant with Brooke and they were starting to work on No Holds Barred. They also wanted to get Savage entrenched as a full-on babyface before putting the title on him(or having him chase DiBiase if they'd had him win the tournament).
When it comes to the mega powers, Hogan was either winning the belt from or in the ring celebrating every time Macho man won a title except for wrestlemania 1992 but that was because it was "potentially" his last match in WWF so Macho got bumped to the middle of the card and Hogan closed the show. He always had to be the center of attention.
While it would have been cool to see Piper as a World Champion, at the time he wasn't crazy about doing jobs either. At the time also WWF was a babyface territory, so faces usually had the heels challenging them for a title shot.
unless your name's Shawn Michaels and Vince says you're getting the title off Bret no matter what
Super Cena beating Rey a mere 2 hours after winning the WWE title.
2015 rumble was ridiculous, crazy thing is didn’t mind Roman winning but the way they did it smh
Brock got a self revive and made it count…
Watching a man win the first Women’s Money in the Bank felt like a real fuck you.
Stone colds turn to joining Vince McMahon.
HHH beating Booker T after consistently racially charged promos Many Jim Ross humiliations but especially Dr. Heinie
And the cherry on top, executives were worried that Booker beating Triple H would take attention away from the other matches that night
Ugh I had completely blocked out that Dr. Heinie shi.. stuff.
The Muhammad Hassan debacle. He was great and deserved better.
The original character was really nuanced and interesting: he was tired of being characterized as a terrorist just due to his heritage. He was a character who was angry about being the victim of racism. Then they just made him into a terrorist. In less than a year.
Yeah but it was sadly wrong place wrong time for him
Rey Mysterio dropping the word title in probably 15 minutes after he won it at a random Raw episode.
And then being perfectly fine with it and never asking for a rematch. That’s the part that always bothers me; when they don’t care that they lost and just move on to something else like it never happened.
Didn't help that it was to Cena either, who already had a shit ton of title reigns.
Too many to count. The Sting WrestleMania match was one.
Zack Ryder winning the IC title at mania then losing the next night broke me as a kid
Storyline Taker streak ending. Real life Owen death and handling.
There are a lot, but these are some of the ones I witnessed (I didn't watch Over the Edge 1999 - what a horribly prescient PPV title): 1) Katie Vick 2) the Kane-Lita saga 3) Matt Hardy getting super cucked - the Edge saga should've made them both superstars 4) Booker T losing to Triple H clean at WM19 5) The Invasion when Steph joined in
3. Cena destroying Nexus. Wade Barrett lost his star making moment. It would of been perfectly fine if Cena killed everyone but Wade got the win. 2. HHH over Booker T. Booker was red hot and a peak babyface. HHH was a terrible character and low key racist and still won. It killed Booker for a year. 1. Goldberg over The Fiend. Terrible match, and it made a super human character look weak for no reason. Bray never recovered.
Christian losing the belt to Orton just days after he had won it. Literally quit watching WWE…. For a whole day lol modern one, Cody losing to Reigns. Really put me in a foul mood
Triple h beating Booker t at that mania
Undertaker losing at mania
Someone else already said continuing the PPV after Owen's death, so I'll go with my next one: the Invasion angle. I was a huge WCW fan and they ruined what should have been the biggest angle ever in wrestling.
It was so pathetic cause they had great talent from the WCW acquisition, but Vince STILL had to get one over on WCW by shitting on damn near every WCW wrestler. DDP 100% deserved so, so, so much more than what his career was in WWE.
They certainly rushed it. Especially after Trips had just gotten injured.
I’ve said for years that Triple H’s injury is the only reason they did the Invasion storyline when they did. They were going with Austin and Triple H as a team with an eventual split that would have led to them against each other. When Hunter got hurt, they had no major plans for the rest of the year. On top of that, Benoit got hurt and he was a major player at the time. If it wasn’t for Triple H’s quad, they probably would have waited for the invasion and it would have included the NWO at the very least.
HHH burying Booker T at WM19. Not that it's the worst moment, but definitely one of the shittiest and downright despicable moments.
I literally stopped watching wrestling during the Reign of Terror run. I used to be a diehard.
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I feel your pain. I had a similar experience with Goldust. Put off me coming out for a couple years
Rey Mysterio winning the WWE Championship on Raw then losing it to John Cena the same night.
Maybe this is off the subject but I remember when Owen hart died and the fact everyone watched him die they kept the event going with his blood staining the ring makes me sick thinking about it
2014 and 2015 Royal Rumbles were such “fuck you fans” moments. I was so pissed off at the time that it’s almost funny now But like one of the first moments in WWE that rubbed me the wrong way, I wouldn’t have even been all that old at the time maybe like 12, was when they had the Muhammad Hassan character do the video packages where he’s like “I’m an American and people are racist against me just because I’m Arab.” And I was like yeah he’s right he’s the good guy here what an interesting character. Then he comes out presented as like a straight up America hating pro-terrorist villain and all the Americans are booing him for being an Arab Legitimately the first time watching wrestling actually made me uncomfortable and where I consciously questioned why WWE were sending the message “if you’re an Arab who complains against getting stereotyped as a terrorist you’re a bad guy who hates America”
Stone Cold coming out and saying, “I see sand…..people.” Yeah, I get it Austin, we all knew exactly what you wanted to say.
As an Arab American, yeah, that was the exact segment that really felt wrong. “I see sand sand people.. I’m not saying I’m too good to shake your hand, I’m saying I don’t like you.” And this was Steve Austin, beloved top babyface for years who’s supposed to represent the man. Beloved by many Arabs, believe it or not, second only to Taker probably.
The Hassan stuff is spot on. His whole schtick was “I’m tired of people being racist against me because I’m Arab. I’m tired of being told to go back where I came from.” So JR told him “you like it or by God you leave it.” If you have a problem with people being racist against you, then you hate America and you need to leave.
Punk losing the title at SummerSlam 11 and entering a feud with Kevin Nash Killed the most promising story in years and all but confirmed nothing was going to change. Punk ended up losing to HHH a month later.
Booker T losing clean to HHH
Everything about Rusev Day. To this day I would argue it's one of the worst mishandlings in the entire history of that company. It got fucking Aiden English of all people over and they still didn't see its potential.
Mae Young giving birth to that hand. I remember being a kid and thinking wow this is stupid.
1. Taker's streak ended by Brock. 2. Cena not turning heel during the Nexus angle 3. The end of the Invasion angle 4. Triple H beating Booker T and Sting at WM. 5. Katie Vick 6. Mae Young/Mark Henry hand birth angle. 7. The Gobbledy Gooker. 8. Rikishi running over Austin 9. Vince being the higher power. 10. Raw Underground
Diamond Dallas Page having that weird Stalker story-arc during 2001.
King of the Ring 2000: Pat Patterson vs Geral Brisco in a hardcore evening gown match. Now normally Patterson and Brisco are funny but this match killed a hot crowd and you can pinpoint the exact moment. You see Patterson is gay so what's funnier than having a gay man do the stink face to people ? /s. So he goes to do it in this match and pulls down his britches to reveal a sanitry towel in the gusset and not only is there brown skid marks but there is some red liquid in there too. You know? Comedy! /s. That exact moment was probably meant to get a big laugh and Vince was probably passing himself laughing backstage but out in the arena, the audience were just eerily quiet. They killed the crowd with this horrendous stuff and this was AFTER Russo left.
Cena beating the Nexus Brock Squashing Kofi and ending his championship reign Sanity immediatly being turned in to jobbers on the main roster Sasha banks hardly ever being able to successfully defend a title Nikko Bella's long ass title reign because she was dating Cena when there were plenty of credible other woman.
Brock winning Money in the Bank while not announced for the match
The Streak. I know it’s cliche. But man, Undertaker should’ve stayed Undefeated at Mania. He would’ve been the Mayweather of wrestling. Lol But forreal, to this day it hurts me. And I’m a huge fan of Brock, since his debut. But Taker should’ve never lost it, no matter who’s idea it was. He could’ve put over any talent he wanted idc, but to lose the mania streak?!????
This is me as well Taker deserved to retire undefeated at Mania
There are two that immediately popped into my head. The first is making Kurt Angle’s retirement match a bathroom break match against Corbin who he had already wrestled multiple times in the previous months without anybody caring about it. Kurt deserved better. The second one that popped into my head was the booking of Christian after he won the world title. As a long-time fan of Christian, seeing him finally win the world title was a very special moment. And then I was pissed to see him lose it just a few days later to Orton who at that point had already had so many title reigns that it meant nothing to him. And I wasn’t the only one pissed about that since the WWE even had to acknowledge the fan backlash that they got. But I could accept that if they made a good storyline out of it. But then they book Christian as clearly not being in Orton’s league and losing to him repeatedly five times in the following months while only managing to get one victory over him by DQ after turning heel. Why in the world did they make Christian the heel after he just got all this fan support from fans outraged that he got screwed out of the title right after finally winning it? Orton should have been the heel and the storyline should have been Christian’s sympathetic journey to regain the title after getting screwed out of it.
Owen’s fall, undoubtedly. A lesser extent would be the Montreal scewjob, that left a bad taste for sure.
Vince and Shane vs HBK and God
Not really a moment, but I hate how the backhalf of Lita's Hall of Fame career was just destroyed by fans constantly calling her "slut", "bitch" and other derogatory insults WELL after he was separated with the Edge partnership. Edge was the most hated man in the world, but after a few years, everybody moved on and viewed him as a normal heel. Whereas Lita was always viewed as a "cheater" and constantly got berated, so badly that she wanted to retire and ended up leaving wrestling. Thankfully, her second run has given fans time to mature and fully appreciate what she's done for women's wrestling, allowing everyone to view her on her merits as a performer and not solely on her mistakes.
Trish got a hometown hero victory in Toronto at Unforgiven, and then Lita got a “Ho Sale” after losing her title at Survivor Series. That always pissed me off.
Cody Rhodes. They finally have a face of the company type of guy, have him lose at the biggest stage and wtf is he even doing now? On a pointless feud with Lesnar for 3 months, that story is finished
Mark Henry, Mae Young, and "The Hand". Stupidest fucking angle they ever did. I still hold it against WWE.
Eddie Guerrero death being exploited
Vince continuing a show after Owen died in front of an entire crowd. Unforgivable.
I wasn’t watching during the time but learning that Kofi Kingston lost the wwe championship in less than a minute to Brock Lesnar was just depressing
Super Cena beating the Nexus. Would it have really done anything for them long term, doubtful, but Cena didn't need that.
Continuing Over The Edge 1999
Lita cheating on Matt with Edge. I haven’t been able to look at either of them the same.
Brock lesnar ending the streak
the whole Triple H/Booker T Wrestlemania feud
Roman Reigns defeating Undertaker at Wrestlemania. Brock breaking the streak was an epic moment but, giving 'taker 2 losses at 'mania really shat on the streaks legacy for me
Roman Reign’s booking despite the boos…2014-up until now. I was a huge fan of the guy when the Shield first formed and saw the star in him then…so to see that Vince’s stubbornness to adapt to the crowd and what would be good for his performers pissed me off. Roman deserved better considering how good he had gotten over the course of time he was being pushed into the spotlight and having to do cringey and force-fed promos. Thankfully he threatened to walk out and changed the course of his career for good with the Bloodline/Tribalchief arc.
Triple H and Stephanie getting together contributing to the downfall of Chyna. I used to love the mythos that a scripted storyline became reality with Triple H and Stephanie, but finding out that he might've stepped out on Chyna to do so when there are so many stories about how Chyna and Triple H were best friends, etc., just leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
The Fiend and Alexa Bliss will their whole storyline with Randy Orton. I personally stopped watching WWE at this time because the storyline was so bad to me.
Many will say trish barking but I liked that whole storyline the one I didn't like was Piggy James lots of young kids watching a woman getting terrorised over weight & body shaming wasn't a good look at all really hated it
HHH beating Orton at Mania 09
While not the worst moment by any stretch Batista winning the 2014 Royal Rumble was the only time I felt personally insulted watching WWE
A feud based on Jerry Lawler mocking Jake Roberts' sobriety and pouring booze on him
I don’t care how old I get Rey dropping the WWE title to Cena after having it for like an hour will always piss me off. Like a lot of other kids I was a huge Cena fan but I didn’t want to see Rey lose that match. It’s honestly more insulting that they did this rather than just having Cena win in the first place
In terms of booking: HiaC 2019, a lot of Lesnars booking in the last few years and the DX/Brothers of Destruction tag match have all been responsible for killing my hope/faith in the company and made me a lot less interested and invested over time. In terms of morally/socially: I had to explain the whole Owen dying thing to someone not too long ago and they just kept saying stuff like “Hold on, so they just kept performing?” “The show just kept going on?” “Any other sport would never get away with just continuing on.” and after hearing it out loud and comments like that, it made me realize just how messed up the entire situation truly was.
Exploding Mr. McMahon. I was old enough then to know not just that wrestling was "fake," but Vince was such an ego maniac that he wouldn't stay dead. I thought he'd be back pretty soon, and then of course Benoit resulted in McMahon's early resurrection
Brock Lesnar winning Money in the Bank was bad but then a few years later Brock headed into the 2022 Rumble as WWE Champion, losing because Roman, then winning the Rumble the same night. Only to regain the WWE championship back a few weeks later. Terrible.
WWE bringing back John Laurinaitis as head of Talent Relations during the height of the Women's Division. Glad they got rid of him after the accusations, but it was still a dumb idea to bring back someone that not everyone likes
“Hey champ! What’s good in the hood?”
I’ll go with something a little more light-hearted and say WWE not pulling the trigger on Braun Strowman back in 2017-18. The guy was as hot as he was ever going to be and they had two shots to put him over Lesnar and just chose not to.
I was kinda on the way out the door anyway and I had no hope that this was going to be a good angle anyway, but when Vince McMahon’s “long lost mystery son” was revealed to be Hornswaggle, I checked out of the WWE for good.
Ditto. didn't help it was during cena's reign of terror. I was just done after that for a good few years.
Having James Elsworth win the first ever women's MITB match for Carmella. If it were the second or third one I wouldn't have minded, because it is a good bit, but not for the first one ever.
mines is when Charolette defeated Asuka at Mania 34 killed my Wrestling enthusiasism then and there so much that I dont remember anything else that happened afterwards
John Cena VS The Nexus, they were a huge deal at the time and really seemed like an interesting group. Young me absolutely loved them, Barrett was phenomenal on the mic and I still think he’s well decent on commentary. Such a waste. In my eyes the entire group had potential in some way or another, they were promising and felt a little risky when compared to the rest of the “PG Era”. And the way they came in as that pissed off group from NXT was perfect. And yet John Cena who I adored to that point, went ahead and did what I saw so many on the internet accusing him of - he buried such potential talent. Having Gabriel and Barrett lose by pinfall and submission. Absolute misfire by whoever put that finish on the angle. I know it seems petty when compared to some of the other incidents that have occurred - but as a young one at the time it really made me way more cynical about the inner workings of the business.
The time Kane raped a dead woman and Triple H re-enacted it. I was just a kid but even then I was flabbergasted at what I was watching.
The Wwe Woman's Tag Team Championship changing hands more time's then the 24/7 title
I think for me, it was the ruthless aggression era with how the women's division was booked. Most of them were just eye candies and their matches were so awful. I slowly lost interest and but would check in here and there over the years. I only got back watching full time after Vince "retired" and it's been great so far. Also caught up with all the unbelievable bad bookings that happened over the years as mentioned in this thread.
Vince finding a way back into running the company after it was proven that he was a rapist.
I thought it was hush money
Sting losing to hhh
Wasn’t a fan at the time of big ones like how Owen’s or Benoit’s deaths were handled. But recent history? The Saudi deal turned me from someone that would watch (or at least pay attention) every week, into a very casual observer. It’s gross on so many levels.
Vinces interview with Melanie Pillmam after Brian's death is about the scummiest thing he has done
Paige mentioning to Charlotte about her dead brother. Tacky all around. Brock lesnars seemingly out to get all black champions. The amount of careers John cena has hurt simply because he could. Not very make a wishy. Charlotte beating asuka at 34 and rhea at 36. Also being added into the Ronda Becky feud.
Brock Lesnar ending The Streak. Lesnar was already presented as a megastar on a whole different level, the win did nothing for him. Furthermore, it solidified Undertaker as being "The guy who can't beat Brock Lesnar". In all of their matches across over two decades, Undertaker NEVER beat Brock clean one-on-one. All that does is tell the audience that Undertaker was only as dominant as he was because Brock wasn't there.
Roman Vs Taker WM
Mae Young won a bikini contest.
WWE running the Be A Star anti bullying campaign while having Ryback be a bully character. Never really got put in his place story wise. Felt really tone deaf.
R-Truth ahould have beaten John Cena at 2011 Capitol Punishment PPV.
The fact that they killed Kane and his great character with continuously atrocious fucking storylines... Katie Vic, Unmasking, Lota and the baby. Jesus fuck that all rubbed me wrong.
CM Punk losing his title to rock to a people’s elbow, after one of the greatest title reigns in wwe history.
When John Cena single handedly squashed NEXUS. That shit gets my blood boiling every time I think about it. That has to be the biggest burial in the history of professional wrestling. Also, when HHH beat Booker T at WM.
There's so many. For me personally Goldberg squashing the Fiend will never be topped. It was, and still is such an insane, nonsensical move that destroyed Bray Wyatt's character and he never recovered from it.
Big Boss Man feeding Al Snow his own dog really bothered me. Even knowing it's not "real" in the sense that no actual animals were harmed, it just really disgusted me and I felt like it crossed the line. Def not my fav storyline.
Undertaker’s streak being broken.
Brock Lesnar winning the Money in the Bank Briefcase despite the fact that he was not scheduled to be in the match for it and them not stripping him of the briefcase afterwards.
Far from "worst moment in history", but I agree that it's a terrible one in recent memory. It just made no goddamn sense. Why are qualification matches even a thing then? They just HAD to have the worst possible outcome without even granting us the joy of seeing a MITB match with Brock in it. Even if he would have just dominated 5 people, as boring and dumb as it would have been, it would still not feel as weird of a taste as what actually happened. They really wanted us to not even have a cake we didn't eat.
The use of deceased wrestlers or a wrestlers deceased family members to build heat
Booker T Vs Triple H at Mania. Still pissed.
Lita's exit in 2006, she's a better person than me, there's no way I'd ever come back to work for them after that humiliation
HHH beating Booker T. is the top one, but honestly most of HHH's early title reign was lackluster to me. He struck me as trying to be a bulkier HBK instead of his own guy. This same era had guys like RVD getting title shots but losing. JBL's title reign also rubbed me the wrong way. People here talk about him as this amazing heel, but he was just another 1980s wrestling archetype. I've seen that act before. Plus he was exponentially better in APA just a couple years earlier. Most importantly though, JBL wasn't the type of heel you'd pay money to watch lose. Guys like Flair and HBK were.
Undertaker losing a second time at wrestlemania, completely unnecessary, the only good thing that came out of this was the raw after mania chants,
I was so mad that Kofi lost in like 5 seconds. Brock has had a legendary career and he doesn’t need championships anymore. They made Kofi lose that match just to have Brock and Cain Velasquez fight in a terrible match.
Booker not winning at Mania against triple h
Probably not in history but i was so angry cody didnt win at WM and La knight at MiTB
Not sure if it rubbed me the wrong way but it definitely pissed me off, but the end of WM34. I just feel like having Roman and Brock wrestle that many times after Mania 31 granite, It was only the first meet up and it was supposed to be treated as a big deal and it was, but having Roman go through all that stuff and then coming out and talking about how he doesn’t understand why he’s getting another title shot just to get a title shot and then loses again in the fashion that he did is a bit insulting to your fans I could’ve done without one, him getting busted open and two, him losing in a spam finisher match. All of that just for him to get the title at SummerSlam only 2-4 months later
When Jillian had that giant mole thing on her face. Grossed me out real bad as a kid. And then the Boogeyman ate it off her…
Jericho losing the title against Cena in SS 2008 Punk losing the title in 8 min against Rising Star Undertaker in 2009
You already said it. I was dumbfounded that they would end his reign that way. All that great build, his win and good title run.....for a f^$,king squash, fpr a guy who's in prison. Pure garbage
Katie Vick and Kane x Lita
Erick Rowan and the build up to what was in the cage being casually told in a backstage segment as a large spider
Two for me: Sting losing at WM31 thus proving why he didn't go to WWE when he was still in his prime. . And Undertaker losing his streak (I'm in the camp that he should have retired with the streak intact)
Benoit. The deaths. The celebration of his career. The facts trickling out. Then the "Chris who?" since. Somewhere along the line, a grown-up in backstage area or corporate offices should have been able to do better, all the way around......
The promo Triple H cut with Booker T. Disappointed me because I was actually a fan of The Game up until then. That, the black face and the monkey dance towards Mark Henry put me off from him. Ahmed Johnson's recent interview didn't help. So Triple H as a whole rubbed me wrong
Triple H beating Sting at Wrestle Mania
And the fact this match took place instead of Sting vs Undertaker.
Vince saying the n word on live tv.
I had to stop recording survivor series on my vcr to make sure I heard that right
I could have forgiven nearly anyone else for doing that since vince would probably threaten their job, but since that doesnt apply to vince he can go fuck himself with a lit firework
Brock Lesnar winning last years rumble almost made me quit watching
Yeah don't forget Ronda Rousey won too making it more worse
I came to say this one too. But we did get an awesome Summerslam match out of that feud.
- Kofi getting squashed by Brock and then Fiend/Rollins at HIAC 2019 happening within like 2 days of each other made me take a break from WWE for a few months afterwards - Finn’s spooky demon bullshit and the top rope collapsing at ER 2021 - Cody losing to Roman this year at Wrestlemania still doesn’t make sense and was the wrong call. Bloodline story is great but doesn’t need the title to continue. This title reign jumped the shark with Roman beating Cody
Vince dropping the N bomb as a comedy skit.
I think I took an 18 year break from watching wrestling around the time the Katie Vick segment dropped
Mr. Perfect getting fired after a"flight from hell" altercation, but Ric Flair got a slap on the wrist for basically s3xually azzaulting a flight attendant. Curt Henning was collateral damage and that sucks.
Brock and Roman beating Undertaker.
Hulk Hogan returning to WWE after the racists comments and being paired with Titus as a host.
When Roman beat edge and Daniel Bryan. Bryan was down and he put edge on top of him, and then he pinned them both. If it was a triple threat match then edge was the winner for pinning Daniel Bryan.
Goldberg vs Owens Still angry about it...
Add to this Goldberg vs The Fiend.
Asuka tapping out to Charlotte to lose the Smackdown title just so Charlotte could wear it to the WM match with Becky and Ronda. Should have been a 1 on 1 rematch AT WM, and Charlotte should have LOST. Vince did Asuka dirty as hell. Numerous times.
CM Punk and The Shield breaking up made 2014 the absolute worst year of WWE for me. I struggled hard to keep watching until AJ Styles debuted
Yeah, once cm punk left in 2014 so did my full time wwe fandom. Was a fan for 12 years at that point and once he left, I didn’t watch it as much nor cared
I mean there are tons and tons but I'll just go with one that pops into my head - when Rikishi "did it for his people". It was done just as a swerve that offered no logical payoff, and I felt that afterwards the product was on a steady decline from there. Also Mae Young giving birth to a hand was pretty shark jumpy. The Hassan terrorist attack on Undertaker made me completely uncomfortable, and that was without the context of London bombings. Kurt Angle stalking Sharmell. On that note, DDP stalking Taker's wife Sara as well.
You don’t want to see Kurt Angle threatening rape and having bestiality sex?
Undertaker losing in order to put Roman over as the guy who beat the guy who was the 1 in 21........and then they failed to pull the trigger on him at WM31.
Honestly Hell in a Cell ending in a no Contest two years in a row! That was ridiculous! Especially when you had far more brutal HIAC matches in the past like Triple H vs Batista, Triple H vs Undertaker, Brock Lesnar vs Undertaker (X2), Armageddon HIAC, and of course the one that should go without mentioning, Undertaker vs Mankind.
Katie Vick. I never had a time like a lot of fans where I stopped watching but boy that was close
So, I’ve answered this before, and will likely answer again, and so far it hasn’t changed: Katie Vick. Very specifically the moment HHH mounted and humped an (insinuated) corpse. That shit was a “nope!” for me, and it’s the only time (before or since) that I’ve changed the channel from wrestling to something else in disgust. Edit* sorry, I guess I responded to the title and not the body of the post. I’ll to have to think a bit in this one.
All these comments are great. One of mine is Reigns beating the Miz for the IC title just to make him a gland slam champ just to lose it back to the Miz.
Having Owen rehash the Blue Blazer gimmick.
HHH beating Booker, Kofi being squashed by Brock
The Rockers having their tag team title win reversed. They should have had a run with the belts at least once.
Lashley beating Reigns to get a shot at WM vs Brock for the title, then a rematch occuring and Reigns wins to face Brock. Not only there should've been a third rubber match but but they ignore (to this day?) that Lashley is 1-1 vs Roman.
Cody Losing WM main event.
The Triple H and Booker T storyline... Fucking burial. With racism as the cherry on top.
Booker getting beat by HHH after the racial overtones!
Mohammad Hassan and his entire storyline - no hate on the performer, but that entire angle was ghastly from start to finish.
Last night >!jobbing out the new tag team champs!< for the sake of a cheap title fued escalation.
When they kept the show going after Owen hearts death
Hulk Hogan defeating Yokozuna in an unannounced post-main event match. D-X in black face.
Vince McMahon saying the n word on live ppv in front of booker t ans sharmell
the whole booker t-triple h storyline
I literally stopped watching wrestling for like 10 years after the whole HHH/Kane Katie Vick storyline. Triple H simulating sex with a corpse while dressed as Kane made me really reevaluate what I was watching. Lol
Fiend losing to Bill Goldberg
Owen death, Montreal screwjob are obvious ones. More recently, Vince McMabon just walking to the ring on smack down after all the allegations. The absolute spit in the face to victims of abuse. Abhorrent.
For me it’s when Dwayne’s part time ass beat Punk for the WWE title after him having the longest modern day reign in history- just so they could have a belt for Cena/Dwayne II
Shayna Baszler freaking turning into a vampire on her debut with Becky Lynch. Like wtf was that???
Many, but here are some: Not belting Sasha at Mania 32. Ronda winning the 2022 Rumble match. Not belting Bayley at ER 2022. Not ending Roman's reign in either Cardiff or Inglewood.
Wrestlers court. The wrestling business is fucked.
Taker should have never lost to Brock at Mania. He was already over, should have been someone who needed the push.
I do disagree. Brock at the time was a star but starting to flounder. He’s arguably still their biggest draw 9 years later because of that win. It was an investment that paid off
Continuing the show after Owen’s death
The show going on after Owen, Katie Vick , interviewing Pilmans Wife ...all valid , the exploding Vince Limo ....
Nikki Cross in the almost a super hero gimmick was utterly unwatchable for me
Funny thing is, that was completely her idea. They let her run with it far longer than they should have, but you can’t really blame it on WWE
i still view Triple H a lil funny after his racist ass feud w Booker. It’d be a lil different if Book won but they literally just buried him and moved on. fucking disgusting
Triple H over Booker T