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Post by Andrew is Good on Jan 14, 2015 11:49:02 GMT -5
So I've watched since birth due to my parents being fans during the 80s boom period, and I guess I have to go by years I remember. i also have a pic from Christmas 1988 with a George Steele LJN doll and a ring to prove that because I don't even remember myself.
Ugh, I feel lame. Of course I would pick 2014, it's the most recent year and everything else is nostalgia. I guess that's what one could say and a lot of people have picked it.
In the past year or so, I completely stopped watching Smackdown, even though I would watch it every week. Hell, when i was at work in a work camp, and I was just on my computer, I would just watch youtube videos instead of watching Smackdown because nothing happens. It's all just either retreads of Raw or dress rehearsals for Raw. 2009 was pretty bad as well with the guest host thing, so I guess I could go with that as well. I was thinking Impact was actually going to be successful, because the seeds were there. When wrestling was bad in 1995, WWE specifically, WCW had the chance to storm Monday Nights and be like, yeah, that show is shit, here's something new, and I think that's why it became so successful.
I remember there was this Raw a few weeks before Impact on Monday debuted, and it was possibly the worst WWE Raw ever. It had senseless matches, and the infamous Little People's Court. The reason I picked this year was because it's really shown that Vince needs to go. Vince is clearly off the rails and is reaching Dixie Carter levels is absurdity and stupidity, especially while Triple H for example runs good shows on NXT.
I was listening to Review a Raw, and they discussed the legacy of Vince McMahon, and how now people are going to say, yeah, he did great things, but those last couple of years, he was so out of touch and didn't know what to do, and he's too old now to change his ways.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 11:53:34 GMT -5
2007 was the first full year I started watching pro wrestling.
Looking back, not a great start.
2014 is a close second.
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Post by Ben Wyatt on Jan 14, 2015 11:59:10 GMT -5
1995 and it isn't even close. Let's recap shall we: The worst Royal Rumble ever, featuring some of the worst characters ever to enter a WWF ring and the 60 second intervals. One of the worst WrestleManias ever with more focus on the b list celebrities Vince brought in than the wrestlers. One of the worst PPV's ever in the King of the Ring. 3 Diesel vs Sid PPV main events. Diesel vs King Mabel at Summerslam. That Michaels/Diesel vs Owen/Yokozuna match in which a title was guaranteed to change hands but no titles changed hands in one of the most convoluted ways possible. Jacob & Eli Blu Duke "The Dumpster" Droese Doink The Clown & Dink Kwang Well Dunn The Bushwackers Mantaur Aldo Montoya Adam Bomb Jean-Pierre Lafitte Bob "Spark Plugg" Holly Rad Radford Man Mountian Rock Tekno Team 2000 Bodydonna Skip Bertha Faye Issac Yankem DDS Dean Douglas Avatar Henry O. Godwinn And so much more. Ding ding ding. We have a winner
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 12:03:19 GMT -5
I was listening to Review a Raw, and they discussed the legacy of Vince McMahon, and how now people are going to say, yeah, he did great things, but those last couple of years, he was so out of touch and didn't know what to do, and he's too old now to change his ways. I think that's going to be the main takeaway of the past few years in retrospective, just how much Vince has been strangling his own company to death because he can't see that he just doesn't have it anymore. He's turned into one of the same sort of the stubborn shortsighted old-timers he drove out of business in the 80s.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 12:04:57 GMT -5
I first got into it around late 2002, and took a break from late 2005 to 2008 (got back into it when I was going to Wrestle Mania 25). If I could nominate a brand, I'd say 2002-2005 for the RAW brand. I understood the need for a big bad heel champion, but Triple H became a total Scrappy by derailing the pushes of several over contenders. Smack Down, meanwhile, was on fire from 2002 to 2004. I just couldn't stomach freaking JBL as Champion.
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Post by spagett on Jan 14, 2015 15:25:00 GMT -5
2003 was pretty awful and 2009 deserves a mention just for utterly depressing Raw was all year. The endless Triple H/John Cena Legacy matches and the guest host era, dear God it was bad. But Smackdown was enjoyable.
I went with 2014, I think that we're in the longest stretch of terrible shows maybe ever. From the moment Rollins attacked the Shield with the chair the product fell off a cliff and the annual Post Summerslam Pre Rumble slump was even more pronounced in 2014.
2014 was also the year it was 100% confirmed that Vince has completely and utterly lost it. Whatever wrestling promoter ability he had, it's gone and at least until he retires/passes away we're going to be seeing a lot of out of touch crap that the fans don't want.
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Post by Bravo Echo November on Jan 14, 2015 15:40:22 GMT -5
2007 by miles. - Benoit - Cena's reign was boring me - Smackdown was at a low point (minus Edge) - The roster was decimated either by injuries or suspensions - ECW becoming a complete afterthought - Vince's bastard son angle ending the way it did
Though with that said, everything from Survivor Series onwards was wonderful.
EDIT: 2009 was bad too, but it edges out 2007 because Smackdown was running on all cylinders and everything up to Summerslam was great. Post SS? God awful.
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Post by bmfjules on Jan 14, 2015 15:53:16 GMT -5
The two people so far who have voted for 99 and 2000 respectively, I'd like to hear what made these generally regarded as awesome years by the rest of us, your least favorite of all time, even if it is nitpicky or personal stuff. For instance, even though it is not my least favorite by any means, the lost opportunity and general stupidity all over 2001 makes it one of my least favorite years to think about even if there was a lot of good stuff.
With the roster they had at the time they could afford to lay all sorts of eggs creatively and get out of jail free so to speak.
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Post by Venti on Jan 14, 2015 16:12:52 GMT -5
Why would anyone who sat through 2009 pick 2014? Granted Taker vs HBK was great and Hardy vs Punk feud was amazing, but that years wrestlemania was extremely worse than this years, the Orton Cena neverending feud happened, DX with Hornswoggle, pre-authority HHH still trying to be booked like a badass, and the guest hosts.... *shudders*
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Post by Deleted on Jan 14, 2015 16:18:52 GMT -5
The two people so far who have voted for 99 and 2000 respectively, I'd like to hear what made these generally regarded as awesome years by the rest of us, your least favorite of all time, even if it is nitpicky or personal stuff. For instance, even though it is not my least favorite by any means, the lost opportunity and general stupidity all over 2001 makes it one of my least favorite years to think about even if there was a lot of good stuff. With the roster they had at the time they could afford to lay all sorts of eggs creatively and get out of jail free so to speak. I could see 1999 - the shows had a fun frantic pace to them, but the ring work all around the card was absolute trash and there wasn't a good PPV all year and the storylines didn't actually make much sense.
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Post by nate5054 on Jan 14, 2015 23:37:38 GMT -5
2008 brought us Million Dollar Mania. Though the Rick Roll in it was gold.
2009 brought us Kroenke vs. McMahon...you know, Enos Kroenke...hahahahahaha, because his first name is Enos, and that sorta rhymes with Anus or Penis...he's an Enos...hahahahahahahahah.
So yeah, 2009
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Post by Deleted on Jan 15, 2015 1:57:41 GMT -5
2007 was a pretty bad year in wrestling. So many deaths, injuries, scandals, suspensions, and of course Benoit. Cena and his never ending title reign. Russo putting his fingers all over TNA dropping the quality down immensely from an excellent 2006. ROH didn't feel as exciting and awesome compared to 05 and 06 but it was still excellent. Honestly I'm sure if we do this poll next year, the votes towards 2014 will be way down. At least their was tons of great matches on TV this year. Plus 2014 felt somewhat fresh that we had other headliners outside of the usual Cena, Orton, HHH. Like The Shield guys mainevented quite a bit of PPV's this year. Hell Bray Wyatt even main evented a PPV against Ambrose
Edit: I thought 2013 was more tedious and worse then 2014 by far. Like I remember there was like 10 straight Raw and Smackdowns of Daniel Bryan getting destroyed by the Authority. The whole Big is broke storyline. A very boring Cena title reign. Daniel Bryan joining The Wyatt Family. Two time WWE Champion Daniel Bryan with a combined reign of 21 hours. Cena and Orton unification. Del Rio dominating the WHC scene. Concussions ruining the pushes of Dolph Ziggler and Fandango. f***ing Curtis Axel. RYBACK being buried and forced to become a heel to be fed to Cena. Sandow losing his MITB match to Cena which he still hasn't recovered from being a serious credible wrestler. Orton winning the MITB. A near death sickly burnt out CM Punk half assing and having a never ending feud with Heyman. Lesnar to HHH and spending most of the year feuding with HHH. A wasted HBK heel turn with no serious follow up. Also did I mention Daniel Bryan being bitch made for months by The Authority.
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Post by BRV on Jan 15, 2015 10:58:38 GMT -5
I was giving serious consideration to voting for 2009, exclusively because of how dire things were during the Guest Host era, another ghastly reunion for DX, and the revolving door of John Cena and Randy Orton championship runs, but the in-ring action on the whole was actually fairly decent.
I voted for 2010, because it was the continuation of the embarrassing Guest Host era, they butchered NXT season one and the Nexus invasion, Jack Swagger's catastrophic World Heavyweight Championship reign, Kane's catastrophic World Heavyweight Championship reign, John Cena being the company-saving hero for the billionth time, Randy Orton being the star of the show when John Cena wasn't around, and on top of it all, the actual wrestling took a giant step backwards from previous years.
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