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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Sept 24, 2010 9:28:47 GMT -5
2009 was the year I stopped watching regularly after two and a half decades, so I voted that.
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Post by King Fox -1017 Bricksquad on Sept 24, 2010 10:10:04 GMT -5
Seriously, It's 2003.
HHH stranglehold of the title trumps all that.
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Post by #Classic Hi-Definition X on Sept 24, 2010 14:07:53 GMT -5
2004 was awful, but I lost complete interest in 2007, so that gets my vote.
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Post by hoganhallnash on Sept 24, 2010 14:28:14 GMT -5
2009, 2008, 2007 in that order.
First half of 2007 WWE was actually decent, after the Benoit stuff the product when in a complete downward spiral and has been doing so ever sense.
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Post by Bauertainments on Sept 24, 2010 14:50:50 GMT -5
2004 2005 & 2006
WWE was slowly but surely getting worse from 2001 to 2003, but 2004 was the year that finally broke me.
Triple H's suffocating the product and cutting Eddie's title reign off at the knees and giving the title to snorking JBL afterwords are what finally made me stop watching regularly, and whenever I did tune in, everything I saw was pretty bad usually.
2005 the only good things that happened were the SummerSlam PPV, the ECW PPV and the build-up to it and Hogan and Roddy in the hall. Everything else was crap. Like Muhammad Hassan, the beginning of Eddiesploitation and the overall poor shows they were putting on.
And 2006, the only things that had convinced me to watch was the ECW revival... after three weeks, I tuned out again. Everything else was crap. (I watched more of 24/7 On Demand than I did the then-current product that year)
And the things I mentioned there, were mainly things I had only heard about, because I didn't have the willpower to watch WWE anymore.
As for the other years,
2001 sucked, badly, but it I kept watching, at least.
2002 had Katie Vick and the Billy and Chuck wedding, but again, those moments didn't convince me to almost completely abandon the company like 2004 did. Also, those were just a few moments in an otherwise acceptable year.
2007 was weak, but that was mainly because of the Benoit fallout. Most of everything that came before that (except for Fake Rosie/Fake Trump and the Vince getting blown-up story) was pretty good. as weak as the Post-Benoit stuff was, it wasn't horribly bad like the 04-06 stuff.
(PS, I didn't care what you JBL supporters say, he snorking sucked!)
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Post by Crazy Diamond on Sept 24, 2010 16:10:38 GMT -5
2001 was pretty crappy in the beginning. It kept that Mcmahon-Helmsley ish going on way too long and it got to nWo levels when practically every episode involved Mcmahon family drama. Then they gave Austin that stupid heel turn and made him HHH and Vince's lackey for no good reason. Sure Austin's promos (especially the ones with Angle) and matches were fine but the storylines went from being mostly logical to just being random. If it hadn't been for the Invasion I would have given up on the WWF that year. The Invasion wasn't perfect but it was light years ahead of that trash and it had some great moments with Rock, RVD, Jericho, Booker T, Austin (he was great as the leader of the Alliance), Angle, and Rhyno. It also had one of my favorite feuds from WWF in Rock vs. Jericho though I felt at the time that it should have happened a year earlier. 2001 wasn't as good as 1998-2000 storyline-wise but it had some of the best matches of the WWE at the time and compared to what would come the following year it was a lot better.
No, 2002 was when everything really fell apart. It was getting to WCW 2000 levels of garbage by the end with stupid storylines (ex. Katie Vick, HLA), ridiculous overpushes (ex. HHH and Lesnar), and people having their legs cut from under them for no reason whatsoever. The brand split was actually a good idea but the mistake the WWF made was that they forgot that people did not see Raw and SD as two separate companies. So when they made one show suck (Raw) and the other good (Smackdown) all people thought was that the entire company sucked and therefore quit watching them all together. It only got worse in 2003 where sometimes I thought "Wow, WWF didn't learn one damn thing from WCW did they?" It was like they thought they could put any garbage on TV and people would watch. It was those two years which made me stop watching WWF/WWE regularly and if it hadn't been for Jericho's return in 2007 I wouldn't be on this forum much less watching any wrestling at all.
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Sept 24, 2010 16:21:50 GMT -5
...and cutting Eddie's title reign off at the knees and giving the title to snorking JBL afterwords are what finally made me stop watching regularly, and whenever I did tune in, everything I saw was pretty bad usually. (PS, I didn't care what you JBL supporters say, he snorking sucked!) I'm not being chief JBL supporter, but at least JBL was healthy holding the title and making some awesome TV at it too. Let's not forget this: Eddie was under A LOT of stress as champion, so much so it was starting to strain his heart. Sure Eddie was still a major player for a year afterwards, but he knew he couldn't be champ anymore because of his health. JBL as champ though brought one thing a lot of heel champs haven't been able to do: promote his matches pretty much via dialogue. He may not have been good in the ring, but dammit he tried giving his all to make people watch his matches, which is more than what I can say about people like sometimes HHH and Randy Orton.
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Post by fw91 on Sept 24, 2010 16:22:14 GMT -5
2007, well was bad, but it wasnt really the e's fault. benoit situation, hhh, edge taker injured. hbk took an extended vaction for a while, and kennedy screwed up his mega push. 2003 was just bad. they had all the talent, but it all went downhill after mania 19
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Post by agent817 on Sept 24, 2010 16:36:25 GMT -5
Maybe I should some of my input. I really wasn't following at some points. I can admit that 2001 was bad because the InVasion angle was just bad. My interest sort of faded during 01, but the Alliance bit was what added fuel to the fire. I didn't care what was going on. I tuned into RAW and Smackdown and while I wanted to see how the WCW angle was about to play off, it became even more ridiculous when ECW was added to the mix and Stephanie McMahon was named the owner of ECW.
Though 2002 had its bad points, there were some good points. The Katie Vick storyline, even I thought that was bad and I kind of got back into it during that time. The good parts were the Shawn Michaels/Triple H feud. I mean, come on, Summerslam was one of the best PPVs of 2002, so there were some good parts of that year. But the Billy and Chuck wedding bit, though I didn't watch that segment when it happened, I remember hearing about it and thinking "WTF?". Same with the HLA stuff.
Now with 2003, I remember tuning into RAW here and there and everytime I did, it was always Evolution coming out and ranting and raving about how they rule RAW and such. Granted, that was a good stable, but it kind of got old after a while. Or maybe the reign of terror was what turned me off of it.
I didn't really watch much in 2004, but I remember reading about and tuning into RAW at some point about the Kane/Lita/Matt angle. I thought that was a stupid angle, though I do remember watching RAW the night of the wedding segment and what stood out to me (And pretty much everybody else) was when Trish came out in that hot outfit she wore. Then came when Snitsky got involved and kicked a baby doll just to add cheap heat.
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Post by 67 more on Sept 24, 2010 16:44:22 GMT -5
Strangely 2007 is probably my favourite year.
2002 is my least favourite.
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Post by Junkenstein on Sept 25, 2010 14:03:30 GMT -5
03 was really bad. People have very selective memories about 07. Everything before THAT happened was pretty damn good and Mania 23 is one of my favorite Wrestlemanias. Even if the Benoit stuff never happened I doubt 2007 wouldn't be getting much love. It started crappy and never got better. RAW was bad and SuperCena was at it's height. Smackdown was just bland. ECW was pretty much the Bobby Lashley Show. There was that moronic McMahon/Trump angle. In fairness, the Mania was a decent show. But they didn't maintain that quality and after it you had Cena/Khali, the never-ending Batista/Edge feud and Vince winning the ECW belt. All before the Benoit thing. 2007 was a horrible year.
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Post by noloking on Sept 25, 2010 14:38:27 GMT -5
2007 and was a bad year, memorable, but bad!
Having bad memory, it is hard to pinpoint a bad year because stupid stuff gets filtered out of the memory banks!
Triple H did not ruin 2003 too much because Smackdown was great, but 2007 had too many problems and it was a shame that the greatest story of that year had to end because of some murderer, lawls!
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Post by Clash, Never a Meter Maid on Sept 25, 2010 16:23:21 GMT -5
The only years that I took issue with were '03 and '06. The storyline progression slowed to an arthritic crawl during both those years' second halves, and I actually took brief hiatuses during them.
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Post by nitrothunder on Sept 25, 2010 17:00:43 GMT -5
2001 was good until after Wrestlemania 17 when Austin turned heel and we had the invasion. 2007-the only good thing i could say about this year was i went to Wrestlemania 23.
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Post by fizzeewater on Sept 25, 2010 17:11:10 GMT -5
2001 for the whole botched invasion garbage. 2003 for Raw is HHH. Let's not forget Scott Steiner...(Smackdown! was pretty good though) 2004 started off awesome with Eddie and Benoit winning the belts but went into the gutter after WM
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Post by jivesoulbrah on Sept 25, 2010 17:29:53 GMT -5
2003, people had to pay to see Stephanie McMahon vs Vince McMahon in a daughter vs father match. Nuff said
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Post by -Lithium- on Sept 25, 2010 17:31:06 GMT -5
2007...
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Post by barthelemykaras on Sept 25, 2010 17:32:23 GMT -5
2001-The terrible invasion angle.
2003-The height of HHH's reign of terror, which nearly killed my interest in wrestling (and certainly was the beginning of my declining interest in the WWE product.)
2007-Khali as world champion. Vince as ECW champion. The beginning of a steep decline for the ECW brand in general. Shallow roster. HHH's second reign of terror. And of course, the Benoit incident.
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Post by Beatle619 on Sept 25, 2010 23:01:19 GMT -5
Are you kidding me? 2004 was great. The wrestling was great, (at least on Smackdown), and JBL's reign was awesome. His reign is easily the best heel reign of the past 20 years.
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Post by wcw on Sept 25, 2010 23:16:10 GMT -5
2000- Excellent year can't say much bad about it. 2001- A lot of talent made even horrid booking fun to watch 2002- Horrible on most ends 2003- Great on Smackdown horrible on Raw 2004- Solid on Raw but Smackdown took a turn for the worst 2005- Raw and Smackdown were meh but ECW ONS was excellent 2006- ECW is back what the hell could go wrong (Raw and Smackdown meh) 2007- Terrible year ECW being jobbed and Raw and Smackdown being terrible 2008- Meh ECW was watchable as a pure wrestling show but Raw and Smackdown were meh 2009- Smackdown was good Raw not so much ECW on its deathbed
I go with 2002, 2004, and 2007. 2003 was carried by Smackdown to be a decent year even though Raw had its worst year since 1996. All in all 2004 was pretty bad too as Raw went from God awful to watchable but Smackdown went from really good to almost unwatchable.
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