10 DUMB WWE Booking Decisions (We Didn't Want To Admit Were GENIUS!)
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- Опубликовано: 23 ноя 2024
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Should do a video "Wrestlers Who Turned Heel Twice In One Heel Run". Ex: Dominik Mysterio, Stone Cold...
Dirty ConDom went from mega heel to ultra instinct heel
Brock defeating The Streak - it revitalized Lesnar, and it led to him soundly destroying Cena and Roman, to delight of the crowds in attendance.
Damien Sandow winning MITB - it further prevented Cody from reaching the main event, which led to a LOT of things that followed, before Cody ended up as WWE Universal Champion.
Alexa Bliss beating Becky Lynch for her first Women's Title win - she wasn't one of the Four Horsewomen, nor was she an indie darling, nor was she an NXT star, but quickly became a major star on the main roster. It first required Alexa to beat Becky, who wasn't a major fan favorite, but she was a fairly beloved babyface.
Batista winning the 2014 Royal Rumble - fans HATED it, but then Batista turned heel and it added even more fuel to the fire for Daniel Bryan. Dude defeated Evolution in one night by himself. Can't get much sweeter than that for a guy who was far from what Evolution represented.
Kinda sad that the Otis/Mandy storyline just ended without a true ending...just "Oh we just went separate ways...THEN WHY THE MANIA MATCH
I wouldn't really consider Mandy Rose going back to NXT as dumb in the first place. She needed some improvement and she did improve. Toxic Attraction is the best thing Mandy Rose did.
FACTS it was one of my favorites runs from Mandy in her whole run in the wwe.
It’s similar to other wrestlers going to the indies to raise their stock before returning
Yeah, I may be in the minority but I hated the Otis mandy storyline
LOL she was awful. Holding that title for as long as she did was dross
@@funtimefreddie9637She wasn't awful. Big L take as far as I'm concerned.
I was a kid when Austin turned heel and joined forces with McMahon and at the time I hated it. I couldn't believe that it happened and everything in my body rejected it, but as I have gotten older I have actually grown to appreciate it. I remember there was an interview between him, the Rock and Michael Cole and Austin said something to the affect of "I need to beat you Rock. I need to beat you more than you could ever imagine" and honestly that's a pretty brilliant way to setup that heel turn tbh. I think the timing of it was all wrong, but I have grown to respect what they were going for.
Early Mr McMahon having "the stooges" as his main 2 body guards was so friggin hilarious.
I think it was also key to the evolution of the storyline, cuz Vince had no choice but to upgrade to actual younger, stronger, BETTER guys who were, ya know, active wrestlers lol
The Stooges and Mean Street Posse combo was great. You got Vince’s stooges and Shane’s stooges
I loved the two Undertakers Storyline too. As a child i couldnt even tell who is the real one.
Nowdays it looks dumb but back then it was super cool. But that shows how some storylines are for kids and some dont.
Triple H's Reign Of Terror was never a genius idea. It turned so many of my friends off wrestling so hard that they just quit watching for years. It's a black stain on Hunter's legacy no matter what he continues doing now to improve the product. It also doesn't help how many stars you mentioned that gained nothing from it. Everything else on the list is good fun though, it didn't literally drive viewers away in droves
Tatanka's 2005-2006 Run On Smackdown I liked It alot real entertaining stuff also Finlay was good too "I'm Finlay and I Love To Fight"
I'm glad you did this. The IWC is very pretentious at times and can't just enjoy dumb fun. Which is what wrestling is.
People in spandex making mean faces pretending to fight. People get so heated over it lol
Only wwe gets the benefit of the doubt. Let's see you make the same comment for other companies
While Drew losing at the 2022 Clash at the Castle definitely furthered storylines and helped Drew it didn't help Solo and his Bloodline or even SD because we got some bad TV although Solo now has seemed to find his stride by him not talking on the mic. Also I really blame the booking of Cody going after the Bloodline again after his title win. What was Trips thinking tbh?
As much hate as Cena gets for all the golden shovel stuff, I’m surprised that people don’t note the Brock return more. Not so much because he won (which I don’t think was bad in and of itself), but post match Cena grabs the mic and cuts this promo re: people in the office wanting him to go away. It never went anywhere on TV, but the next night Brock got his heat back by injuring HHH and breaking his arm, which took HHH off of TV for a time. I’ve never heard it reported on, but I’ve always suspected that it was intended, or at least pitched for Brock to injure Cena instead, and that the weird promo at the end was Cena’s way of protesting the decision. A lot’s been said about Brock’s credibility early in his return, but what would it have meant for him to injure the top act in the company instead of HHH, who by that time was already a part timer?
I’ve always felt in retrospect it was an insurance policy, if Brock just went over all the top guys again and decided a year or two later that he was bored and wanted to go do something else (like play baseball or learn guitar) and bolted without putting anyone over on the way out, it would’ve presented the same problem they had when that happened with Brock in 2004
The part of Austin's heel turn that I didn't like was I find the Babyface v Babyface of the two biggest stars in the company in the Wrestlemania Main Event to be the most memorable. Hogan v Warrior, Hart v Michaels. The best opportunity for it between Austin and Rock was X-Seven. Now, I do think the rarity of such events adds to them, but that's why I felt disappointed with the end of Wrestlemania X-Seven.
I was one of those fans that quit watching wrestling after the Stone Cold heel turn. I didn't come back until 2014.
still love how prior to Drew vs Priest everyone was like "oooh the fans will riot if Drew gets screwed again" and when Drew did actually get screwed everyone was...fine.
The champ has a new video out congrats on ur champship win 🎉🎉
Will say: Not having Trips drop the title led us to Evolution. Which led us to Randy and Dave. There would be no Viper without it.
Mandy really improved in NXT so it might have been confusing but it really worked.
Developmental is not a brand. That means not is not "the 3rd brand" ... it's televised developmental.
Ups and Downs, but for entire storylines. Current storylines and old ones too.
Even though he was okay wrestling all the way over in Japan, all Hulk was willing to do for his home company for the whole two-and-a-half months he was WWF Champion in 1993 was cut promos from the beach where Thunder In Paradise (or whatever straight-to-video stupid action film he was doing at the time) was being shot...
5:50 It's still called WWE, Simon
When Austin went heel it literally crushed me to the point where I stopped watching wrestling for years.
Begging you to pronounce DiBaise's name correctly.
I did enjoy Austin mostly between Triple H getting injured and the Invasion PPV. More for his comedic antics with Vince McMahon and Kurt Angle.
Dibbiose!
Mandy Rose going through NXT wasn’t dumb.
J and J Security was modern Stooges
I support all wrestling bit honestly very few things WWE does are genus its more just dumb luck
First time I saw that undertaker vs undertaker match was on a DVD that had 5 of his matches. I was just happy to watch old matches I didn't get to see lol
Edit : wasn't going to mention it as it's been argued to death but since it was brought up, I'll die on Brock ending the streaks hill with you
I understand fans were upset Drew McIntyre lost at both Clash at the Castles but I mean they should've saw it coming. Especially the CM Punk one.
That doesnt explain Wrestlemania. I get that they were building to the punk match but we didnt get that until Summerslam. It was too long b/c the build essentially started when Punk returned at Survivor Series. Had he a match with...well anyone it wouldnt have been as bad. Promo after promo w/ no match.
This is made even worse b/c Damian Priest wasnt being put over strong. He was winning due to interference. He looked weak and now looks even weaker now that Rhea isnt beside him anymore.
#4 most certainly wasn't genius. Which of course is no newsflash.
It's a alot of dumb decisions they made like making it impossible for Cena to turn heel to having Daniel Bryan And Seth Rollins constantly lose to Bray Wyatt or having Bray Wyatt lose to Randy Orton And Undertaker at WrestleMania 33 and 31 when he should've beaten Orton And Undertaker to making Finn Balor a mid carder due to the injury he had a SummerSlam against Seth
I hear Simon, I give an up!
The corporate stooges where sometimes funny and sometimes annoying still memorable ether way you look at it
Once you get a certain amount of wealth, you don't pick political sides per se. You play both of them and move to whichever position you think will keep your power, status, and wealth intact and perhaps even grow it
Brock losing against cena in 2012 made cena even look like a bigger star and cena needed that win
No Brock should he came back UFC, and lot MMA fans would liked it.
You mean the year that cena was supposed to have the "worst year of his career"?
I think the Cody/rock angle was a worked shoot. I’d be my left nut on it 😊
Recycling the same video idea once again I see or is that just the theme for this month
You can only come up with so much content/video ideas I'm assuming
0:58 there is not an argument made that will convince me that Rose was any good whatsoever. She was horrible.
never heard of Zunes in my life till now, i get the like, "babe", abbreviation but holy shit, nobody has ever heard Zunes. Ups and Downs needs to incorporate an equals sign.
Challenge yourselves.
I really thought drew mcintyre was going to beat Roman Reigns at clash at the Castle 2022 and looking back triple h from 2002 to 2005 Being World Champion maturity of those 3 yearsI hated it when I was younger but looking back on it. It just shows that Triple H did his job if everyone hated him Regarding the WrestleMania main event this year I never once got mad about the rock maybe faceing Roman Reigns Cause they'd never officially announced that at the time
And HHH was the number 1 contender and then Lesnar went smackdown exclusive. Totally justified
Thank you! People always forget that part.
@@justinpullen1097 and I'm sure he just beat the undertaker to be that number 1 contender
FACTS.
Racism’s own hulk hogan
Thanks to the thumbnail with hear us out all I can think is "Sushi Glory Hole"
Loved The Stooges
Defending Brock losing his first time back is defending Vince for being a petty little child.
Brock losing against cena in 2012 made cena even look like a bigger star and cena needed that win
anything with r truth
For number 5, Triple H defeated the Undertaker a week earlier to be named the number one contender to Brock Lesnar's Undisputed WWE Title so in retrospect, he did earn the World Heavyweight Title
None of those were "genius."
Heel Austin in 2001 was my favorite version of him. I was beyond bored of him being the "redneck badass" by then, it was a complete 1 dimensional character. Being the psychotic huggy monster in 2001 was far more entertaining... at least until "What?" took hold.
The Stooges were great!!!!
McIntyre getting screwed was never a good idea
I love how Ric Flair came out after HHH was awarded the belt and said "this is not the way you want to win a world title." Yeah, says the man whose last world title was literally handed to him on TV by Kevin Nash.
Yeah and also someone who is an old fart now who charges way too much for an autograph
still right, though;
handing yourself a belt doesn't make you a champion.
@meherenow793 He didn't hand it to himself: Eric Bischoff did. 😃😃😃
@@SteelyBud _on screen;_ behind the scenes, paul made the suggestion to bring the big gold belt back instead of making the IC title the main raw belt.
@meherenow793 And Ric Flair never used backstage stroke to say "put the belt back on me?"
Yeah, sure! Keep embracing death threats and how Cody used these to get himself booked as champ. While you're at it, just keep ignoring how sh*t his run as a champ is. Boring on the mic, slow and harmless in the ring, absolutely ridiculous.
The smarks' endless crying over WM9 is hilarious. Nobody minded it except Bret Hart.
Everybody in attendance loved it, that was the important thing. "But but but it didn't work out long term so it was therefore completely terrible".
@@TheRealAhoyThat literally means it was a bad move it doesn’t matter what the initial reaction is…. It was just Hogan pulling a hogan for the benefit of his self
@@GavinJones19982 Dude had the right. When Rocky 3 came out, it was a massive worldwide hit. Because Rocky was that rare thing in the 80s, a majorly successful franchise. It was just below Star Wars in terms of popularity. You know who made a big statement in it? Hulk Hogan, he became a massive star, he turned heads right away, Hollywood wanted him, they were going to make him a star. You know what he did instead?
He decided to promote himself and Hulkamania as a wrestler, and he told Hollywood you don't get me now, if you want me so bad, watch wrestling!!
So he got a bunch of people watching wrestling who had no interest just because he was such an appeal to them. Then Vince McMahon saw what he was doing, and decided, I want to promote that man further, I want to help build his brand and I want that to build my company.
That's the ethos of wwe, (1) build your own brand, (2) build the company. He is always going to treat people favourably who "get" that, and Hogan got it so much he "got it" before Vince even did. Hogan more than earned the right to get one thing wrong, never mind a few things. His enthusiasm for wrestling made the entire business far more lucrative than anyone had even imagined. Pay was good before, now pay was phenomenal.
So, while you all get terminal about all these little micro-infractions and you "link them up to tell a story", you all ignore the only thing that matters in the wrestling business and the answer to the elusive "how to get over?" question. It's hustle.
Hogan could have gone to Hollywood, but he wanted himself and wrestling to become big too. He could have just left it all behind, but he wanted wrestling to become big, which it did. Dude did more for the wrestling business than anybody ever, but you ignore everything unless it's cheap sarcastic clapping and you fixate on the very few flawed moments he had and you link those up as if that's the entirety of his being and you can't get enough of this stuff, you really can't.
Dude had the right. When Rocky 3 came out, it was a massive worldwide hit. Because Rocky was that rare thing in the 80s, a majorly successful franchise. It was just below Star Wars in terms of popularity. You know who made a big statement in it? Hulk Hogan, he became a massive star, he turned heads right away, Hollywood wanted him, they were going to make him a star. You know what he did instead?
He decided to promote himself and Hulkamania as a wrestler, and he told Hollywood you don't get me now, if you want me so bad, watch wrestling!!
So he got a bunch of people watching wrestling who had no interest just because he was such an appeal to them. Then Vince McMahon saw what he was doing, and decided, I want to promote that man further, I want to help build his brand and I want that to build my company.
That's the ethos of wwe, (1) build your own brand, (2) build the company. He is always going to treat people favourably who "get" that, and Hogan got it so much he "got it" before Vince even did. Hogan more than earned the right to get one thing wrong, never mind a few things. His enthusiasm for wrestling made the entire business far more lucrative than anyone had even imagined. Pay was good before, now pay was phenomenal.
So, while you all get terminal about all these little micro-infractions and you "link them up to tell a story", you all ignore the only thing that matters in the wrestling business and the answer to the elusive "how to get over?" question. It's hustle.
Hogan could have gone to Hollywood, but he wanted himself and wrestling to become big too. He could have just left it all behind, but he wanted wrestling to become big, which it did. Dude did more for the wrestling business than anybody ever, but you ignore everything unless it's cheap sarcastic clapping and you fixate on the very few flawed moments he had and you link those up as if that's the entirety of his being and you can't get enough of this stuff, you really can't.
This Hulk Hogan hate is petty
@@TheRealAhoy it wasn’t the 80’s anymore it was 1993 and hogan was getting stale I stand by what I said Hogan pulled a hogan to serve his self on only his self
10:40- Stop calling it a “fight”. It’s a scripted performance.
Can we stop at the false narrative on Hogan please, Bruce prichard shot that down about Hogan wanting the belt at mania 9, and everybody has their side to the story about what really happened with Hogan dropping the belt to Yoko instead of Bret. And did you not hear what you just said Miller, so Hogan didn't want to help Yoko or Bret but then you say he didn't help by dropping the belt to a bad A heel. That takes Bret out, and Hogan did drop it to Yoko, and Hogan didn't go right to WCW he had his acting career first.
The Iwc is it's own wrestling promotion (in the collective heads of people within it) and they are so hyper critical about so many things because they want to be the biggest promotion in the world. Only when decisions they'd make are being made do they feel vindicated, if they aren't being made, then it's smearjob city.
No one cares because drew McIntyre is terrible in the ring has the worst finisher in WWE, history and is boring and has no character.