Storylines Most People Hate that You Liked

[thegame415]

For me:

Embrace the Hate - I loved the campiness of it, and think the feud was great until the end (should've been Ryder vs Kane at WM).

Kane/Lita/Matt Hardy storyline: It did what feuds should do - led one thing to another. It started with a feud with Matt Hardy that led to the debut and feud with Snitsky, and Trish also was involved with it, which led to Lita and Kane aligning which led to Lita and Edge aligning which led to Matt Hardy's return. It was like an actual story.

[chazraps]

Warrior vs Lawler. (June 1996)

This could be nostalgia and my love for summer talking, but I love Warrior best when he's just running over and laying waste to dudes, and I love Lawler best as the sneaky chicken who can jaw-jack and spew endless one-liners.

This one month feud gave me so much of both with the perfect resolution.

[the2ndevil]

Honestly? The InVasion.

Biggest problems I had was I thought the story ran too long, and didn’t like that people who were never in WCW or ECW switched to their side.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

I wasn't watching at the time, but watching old Kerwin White stuff I thought it was the perfect level of bad taste - a Latino guy essentially being a toothless white supremacist. I thought it was hilarious.

Also, and I'll harp on this one for decades if I need to - Jinder Mahal, WWE champion. I actually really like Jinder, but he had no business being champion and that made his reign pretty thrilling to me for the first few months because he simply couldn't be credible and could have dropped the title to anyone at any time. My main issue with him was usually his booking. His matches I thought were surprisingly entertaining clusterf***s.

Jerry Lawler vs. The Miz, which I absolutely love. I know a lot of people hated Miz as paper champion but I was all in on it. Your WWE champion was such a piece of shit that he barely beat a semi-retired man in his late 50s/early 60s, in a goddamn TLC match of all things. But watch the match and the crowd is electric for it.

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New Nexus was Punk at his best.

Shawn Michaels goes broke.

Majority of the reign of terror.

Miz/Lawler and most of Miz' title run.

ADR as a babyface.

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I gotta agree with Jinder being WWE Champion. What made that reign fun for me is that Jinder put his all into it. He turned his character up tenfold and was just a loud classic foreign champion. Something you'd see in an early 90s beat em up or 16-bit fighting game. What made the reign interesting to me is that the guy was also built up as a joke. He was a midcarder holding the WWE Title. Sure he beat some stars but his main thing was the fact he had goons. Without goons he was weak. With that in mind anytime he faced someone it looked as though they could easily win the belt off of him so I tuned into every match due to that. I didn't know when he'd lose it so every match was a must.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Nov 7, 2018 18:46:27 GMT -5 @kn said:

I gotta agree with Jinder being WWE Champion. What made that reign fun for me is that Jinder put his all into it. He turned his character up tenfold and was just a loud classic foreign champion. Something you'd see in an early 90s beat em up or 16-bit fighting game. What made the reign interesting to me is that the guy was also built up as a joke. He was a midcarder holding the WWE Title. Sure he beat some stars but his main thing was the fact he had goons. Without goons he was weak. With that in mind anytime he faced someone it looked as though they could easily win the belt off of him so I tuned into every match due to that. I didn't know when he'd lose it so every match was a must.

THANK-YOU.

And I think while Jinder has dropped like a stone on the card since dropping the strap, I think he has parlayed all that TV time into being a much more worthwhile character than he used to be. He may not be more over (although I actually think he is) but he's definitely better.

[Ryback on a Pole!]

Embrace the hate -- It was stupid as hell but fun, especially when Zack got pushed off the stage in a wheelchair

Bray vs Orton -- It trailed off at the end, the House of Horrors match was a let down but the first part was really good with Orton teaming with Bray.

May 19th -- I like stupidity in wrestling

[1 Free Moon-Down with Burger]

I thought the Cena-Rock feud was great stuff

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Nov 7, 2018 18:55:58 GMT -5 "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay said:

Nov 7, 2018 18:46:27 GMT -5 @kn said:

I gotta agree with Jinder being WWE Champion. What made that reign fun for me is that Jinder put his all into it. He turned his character up tenfold and was just a loud classic foreign champion. Something you'd see in an early 90s beat em up or 16-bit fighting game. What made the reign interesting to me is that the guy was also built up as a joke. He was a midcarder holding the WWE Title. Sure he beat some stars but his main thing was the fact he had goons. Without goons he was weak. With that in mind anytime he faced someone it looked as though they could easily win the belt off of him so I tuned into every match due to that. I didn't know when he'd lose it so every match was a must.

THANK-YOU.

And I think while Jinder has dropped like a stone on the card since dropping the strap, I think he has parlayed all that TV time into being a much more worthwhile character than he used to be. He may not be more over (although I actually think he is) but he's definitely better.

Yeah he's definitely better overall since then. He should be cemented in the midcard. I mean, it says something when AJ, Edge and many other stars and legends give Jinder props for his improvement and run. The booking just wasn't the best.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Nov 7, 2018 18:57:05 GMT -5 Ryback on a Pole! said:

Embrace the hate -- It was stupid as hell but fun, especially when Zack got pushed off the stage in a wheelchair

Bray vs Orton -- It trailed off at the end, the House of Horrors match was a let down but the first part was really good with Orton teaming with Bray.

May 19th -- I like stupidity in wrestling

Oh yeah I actually marked for Randy Wyatt. It was so obvious where it was going but I thought it was really well done in the runup to it. My main issue with it was 1. I didn't actually think the matches would be any good, and I was right 2. I really felt like they should have used it to get Luke Harper over.

[Moppy]

You had me at Embrace the Hate. Just outstanding stuff.

[Clint Bobski]

2011 World Heavyweight Champion and wrecking machine Sheamus, who won the title and defended it by overpowering everyone, and ran over every challenger, has to face the even bigger, even stronger, Big Show. Brogue Kick v WMD.

I know people aren't a fan of either of these guys, but I thought the whole feud was done really well, because Sheamus all of a sudden can't rely on his brute strength and has to try and come up with a new strategy.

Even though I'm a massive Big Show Mark, it should have ended with Sheamus winning rather than Show winning the title.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Jinder being Champ

Parts of the Invasion

Christian falling short to Orton

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Nov 7, 2018 18:22:17 GMT -5 thegame415 said:

For me:

Embrace the Hate - I loved the campiness of it, and think the feud was great until the end (should've been Ryder vs Kane at WM).

The only thing I liked about Embrace the Hate was when Kane tried to do it on Orton and he said i'm not John Cena, I've always embraced the hate

[Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite]

Was the Austin/Pillman gun angle hated?

If so that one.

[Wilfred]

Nov 7, 2018 19:18:15 GMT -5 Clint Bobski said:

2011 World Heavyweight Champion and wrecking machine Sheamus, who won the title and defended it by overpowering everyone, and ran over every challenger, has to face the even bigger, even stronger, Big Show. Brogue Kick v WMD.

I know people aren't a fan of either of these guys, but I thought the whole feud was done really well, because Sheamus all of a sudden can't rely on his brute strength and has to try and come up with a new strategy.

Even though I'm a massive Big Show Mark, it should have ended with Sheamus winning rather than Show winning the title.

Yeah I loved this reign too and it made the title relevant, in my eyes. Sheamus, who I wasn't particularly big on, had me believing it was a title worth having and it was prestigious for the first time in years. He was great as this silent ass-kicker.

[Starshine]

I didn't mind the Orton/Cena/Trips Mania 24 match. I remember a lot of people had a problem with Trips getting inserted into it. But it made sense from the story they had told up to that point, and look, you can't give them that benefit at even some of the best of times. I'm no Trips fan by any stretch. I think the guy is a self indulgent blowhard who's been a sloppy load since he blew his first quad. But if the writing makes sense, I can't blame them for going that direction.

[the2ndevil]

Seeing all the mentions of Jinder’s reign brings a happy tear to my eye.

First time I really cared about the WWE Championship in YEARS.

Also thought his matches with AJ were among the best both have had in WWE.

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Nov 7, 2018 18:44:19 GMT -5 @returnofthestryker said:

New Nexus was Punk at his best.

Shawn Michaels goes broke.

Majority of the reign of terror.

Miz/Lawler and most of Miz' title run.

ADR as a babyface.

I remember a lot of people here liking Del Rio as a face at first because he was so much more natural at it. Then they did the lame feud with Swagger and Ziggler got hot.