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Post by Gerard Gerard on Oct 30, 2014 19:43:31 GMT -5
Just curious as to what WWE executive decisions you considered to be so baffling, yet were so minor as to escape the general ire of the interweb.
Mine'd be the traditional Survivor Series tag match headlining the Bragging Rights PPV, just before.....it's coming....Survivor Series.
It's like they developed a slight profit allergy for a couple years.
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Post by BorneAgain on Oct 30, 2014 19:44:15 GMT -5
The complete disappearance of the Scramble match in the last 5 years.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Oct 30, 2014 19:47:58 GMT -5
The complete disappearance of the Scramble match in the last 5 years. Uhmygod, yes! They had four in the space of 9 months then hush it went. It'd actually be a pretty neat, midcard thingy if they got rid of the pointless 'interim' business. |
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Post by Dave the Dave on Oct 30, 2014 19:54:04 GMT -5
That's a good point. I think having scrambles for the main title isn't great...but if you do for the IC I think it will be more fun.
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Post by Brood Lone Wolf Funker on Oct 30, 2014 19:57:57 GMT -5
Talent wise
What was Dave Taylor doing managing Drew McIntyre
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Post by Starshine on Oct 30, 2014 20:02:55 GMT -5
That weird week Vladimir Kozlov turned up at ECW smiling and waving to the crowd despite never actually turning face.
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Post by CATCH_US IS the Conversation on Oct 30, 2014 20:18:26 GMT -5
That's a good point. I think having scrambles for the main title isn't great...but if you do for the IC I think it will be more fun. I like the scramble Match for the main title. It's a good way to get the belt off of a top face without "making them look weak" and it's a good way to get a belt onto a prospect without it being "forced"'. |
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 30, 2014 20:23:14 GMT -5
The Rock's new manager......DEBRA!
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Post by Famous Rocking Chimes on Oct 30, 2014 20:29:00 GMT -5
Does Kaval's whole WWE tenure count? He was screwed from the moment he won NXT.
Barely managing to last five minutes with Big Show and then losing his spot on Team SmackDown to Tyler freakin' Reks immediately after didn't help matters either.
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Post by Hit Girl on Oct 30, 2014 20:31:36 GMT -5
"I see......sand people"
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Oct 30, 2014 20:31:49 GMT -5
The Rock's new manager......DEBRA! It's a testament to the quality of that match that we can celebrate it all these years later without ever once referring to its build. Now, yes, it had the brilliant foreshadowing of Austin's "I need to be champion", but the Debra business just came out of leftfield and stood there awkward. |
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Post by One-Armed Drummer of Defrebel on Oct 30, 2014 20:32:04 GMT -5
I refuse to die before finding out why Michael Tarver kept popping about backstage in 2011 and why Nexus buried The Undertaker.
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Post by ASYLUMHAUSEN on Oct 30, 2014 20:56:07 GMT -5
The Rock's new manager......DEBRA! assuming you're referring to the run up to the match with Austin at Mania X7.... Baffling? Sure. Rock didn't exactly need a manager. But it did make "sense" (in a loose, Attitude Era/Russo booking way) from a storyline perspective. Under The Radar? Umm...it was a pretty big part of the biggest storyline in the company at the time. Hell, it's pretty prominently featured in the Greatest WWE Hype Video of All Time (usage of a damn Limp Bizkit song not withstanding) |
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Post by Abadebe on Oct 31, 2014 0:05:56 GMT -5
Ending Edge's Wrestlemania streak at WM23.
He was like 5-0 at that point and people were starting to notice. I remember thinking that if they started mentioning it on commentary, it could be established very quickly. They could then build to a streak vs streak match between Edge and Taker in a few years.
Instead Edge was thrown into the MITB match (which already had something like 28 other guys in it) and didn't win, thus ending his streak.
And in the end he got the briefcase anyway and then still went on to face Taker at WM24, making Edge's streak ending a total and complete waste.
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Post by Chiral on Oct 31, 2014 0:31:22 GMT -5
I refuse to die before finding out why Michael Tarver kept popping about backstage in 2011 and why Nexus buried The Undertaker. If they just changed the match order that night it would have made sense, have Barrett win by DQ from Cena, then in a rage they bury Undertaker to show they're still a threat. Instead it was another random mystery added to a long list of 2010 mysteries WWE frustratingly never intended to solve. |
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Oct 31, 2014 5:47:03 GMT -5
That one time Drew McIntyre was face against Jinder Mahal the week before 3MB formed
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Post by Mid-Carder on Oct 31, 2014 5:52:25 GMT -5
The Rock's new manager......DEBRA! assuming you're referring to the run up to the match with Austin at Mania X7.... Baffling? Sure. Rock didn't exactly need a manager. But it did make "sense" (in a loose, Attitude Era/Russo booking way) from a storyline perspective. Under The Radar? Umm...it was a pretty big part of the biggest storyline in the company at the time. Hell, it's pretty prominently featured in the Greatest WWE Hype Video of All Time (usage of a damn Limp Bizkit song not withstanding) But she wasn't even involved in the match and, IIRC, only appeared with him once. If anything it's featured too much in the video package. |
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Oct 31, 2014 5:56:30 GMT -5
Talent wise What was Dave Taylor doing managing Drew McIntyre Helping him to smack the Nasty Boys for trying to take liberties with them in a dark match. Such a shame there is no footage of that encounter, it would be fun to watch that pair get their comeuppance. |
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Post by Session Moth is over on Oct 31, 2014 6:07:45 GMT -5
Not so much a decision but the fact they have never made proper use of the very talanted Fandango. Very baffling to me.
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Post by MrElijah on Oct 31, 2014 7:39:08 GMT -5
Does Kaval's whole WWE tenure count? He was screwed from the moment he won NXT. Barely managing to last five minutes with Big Show and then losing his spot on Team SmackDown to Tyler freakin' Reks immediately after didn't help matters either. I know people get on Low-Ki but damn, it just seem WWE didn't want him to win NXT2 in the first place. |
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