The most disappointed you've been in someone's booking

[H-Virus]

I think probably the biggest reason for me losing interest in WWE this last year is due to how badly handled so much of the talent has been. And yeah, I do understand that when your talent pool is as high as WWE's currently is, there are going to be some people who don't reach their full potential just due to a lack of time. However, I also believe that there's no excuse for someone like Braun Strowman and Rusev to have not held a World Title by now, or Elias not holding a midcard title at least, just due to how incredibly over they've all been at one point or another.

Between Rusev Day catching fire on Smackdown, and truck-flipping, cake-eating, shit-wrecking, not-finished-with-you Strowman getting some of the biggest reactions on Raw from 2017 into 2018, I would have bet money that at least one of them would win their top title at some point. But then Rusev Day got cut off at the knees, which has become far too typical for all of Rusev's pushes, and now he's back to that good ol' Evil Foreigner routine with Nakamura, because that's what people want to see in 2019, right?

And Strowman may have gotten it even worse with some of the most terrible '1 step forward, 2 steps back' booking I've seen in a long time, and he's now at the point where instead of being Universal Champion, Vince chose to take him out of a title match because he felt that losing AGAIN would hurt him too much, which probably wouldn't have been an issue if he'd just let him win it at any point in the last year and a half instead of leaving it on Absentee Lesnar the whole time.



What about all of you? Whether it's a particular phase or storyline of someone's WWE career, or just the entire career in general: What are the booking decisions that have bothered you the most?

[Abdullah]

The way they booked AJ Lee’s feud with Paige.

Very sexist of the same company that would champion women’s wrestling literally months later.

[Deleted]

Kevin Owens' Universal Title reign.

[brettappedout (BLM)]

Summer of Punk 2011. Just depressing.

[Deleted]

Tyler Breeze
Samoa Joe
The Broken Hardys
Lashley

The way they called up Ricochet, Black and Lacey Evans.

God the list goes on.

[abjordans]

Nakamura on the main roster has been a recent one for me.

[chronocross]

Booker.T going into his WM19 match with Triple-H and the actual match/outcome.

[Perd]

In a weird way, it’s still the build to the main event of Mania 30. I know it all worked out in the end. But when you consider what it took, just for them to do the obviously right thing, it’s the prime example of what’s wrong with this company. Their penchant to fight their fanbase, tooth and nail, on just about everything. Though, admittedly, they do seem to have gotten better about this.

[romanstylesiii]

Lashley and McIntyre. Both entertaining guys in other places. Get to the WWE and it has just been a dud. A boring dud

[Bub (BLM)]

So, so many come to mind. But, treating the Straight Edge Society like geeks before randomly splitting them up was garbage.

[Can you afford to pay me, Gah]

The way they don't capitalize on red hot talent that could easily help the ratings decline. By booking them like shit once they got hot. Ok you making me make a list and rant now, thanks, lol. Examples:

Rusev: The whole Rusev Day thing was amazing and extremely over. What they do? They job him, turn him, and refuse to ever push this man only because He married Lana. That screwed up a lame ass angle years ago. Because personal happiness I guess ins't allowed.

Braun: Was major over this time last year and most of the summer. What do they do? Turn the guy heel and face at random. Have Braun destroy him in a match. Killed him dead. Why? Got forbid we change plans. No we need to stick with Roman at all cost even though fans where booing him out of the building.

Brock: The fact this part timer been champion for most of the time for the last couple of years has done nothing for the company but piss fans off. He was fine as this big boss thing he was before they thought it was good to have him as champion. Not only that but while he is gone, we hardly even talk about him and most cases fans forget he even champion but yet the rest of the roster busting there ass weekly, nah none of them should get to be champion. We let the guy we give millions too sit at home with it.

Kurt Angle retirement match and pushing Corbin: What reason at all is Corbin getting so much air time and big matches? The guy is terrible and boring at every turn. Big deal if he "tall". That not impressive. Others are taller and way more entertaining. The fact of all people on your roster. You pick this clown to face Angle in his retirement match? So many better options and so many dream matches you could have had and been a better program.

The woman's Divison: Becky been killing it but instead of letting her shine, we have to keep shoehorning Charlotte into everything and how they are building up this WM match is terrible. The fact Askua went from unbeaten to an after thought, now a champion that is treated like an after thought. Rhonda ok she not as big of a deal that they want us to believe. She supposed to be the Woman's Brock as this final boss even thought she left the UFC on the lowest note. She ok in the ring fine, she can't talk to save her life. You had this First time ever WOmans's only PPV, an event that should have show cased how great they are. So we book one of the worst in ring womans wrestlers to challenge for the title?

NXT call ups: Ok its nearly hitting a year since the last draft. Yet Sanity is still on a Milk carton. WHY where they called up if you not going to use them at all? Instead Smackdown Tag team title was involving the Miz and Shane "I can't punch" McMahon. Every NXT Main Eventer gotten called since the Shield really and briefly Owens and Finn, none of them seems to see anything but a Mid Card title. Sure they get a World title feud but do they ever win? No.

[Hypnosis]

Ambrose in 2018. Came back to a big pop, then he and Rollins got put back with Reigns for a Shield reunion to try to save his reactions, which just dragged both Ambrose's and Rollins' momentum down (well, that, and Rollins losing the IC Title to Ziggler).

Ambrose turned heel on Rollins, and while the turn was promising at first, we got this:



They wrestled at TLC in a regular, clean match, despite having a heated feud that called for a wild brawl on PPV instead.

(I did like the gas mask, though. )

[ChitownKnight]

I think they booked Ambrose ok up until the end of his first title win. The main event of Mania 33 should of been Ambrose beating Cena for the WWE championship. they could of done the shield reunion/heel turn the next year. Ambrose is a talent that they should book as top face or top heel not a Jericho like Talent that gets slotted in the main event whenever convenient. The guy was the most popular from the shield.

[TWERKIN' MAGGLE]

Summer Of Punk 2011.
The Nexus after SummerSlam 2010.
Finn Balor after returning from injury.

[Shark]

Mar 23, 2019 15:51:12 GMT -5 Abdullah said:

The way they booked AJ Lee’s feud with Paige.

Very sexist of the same company that would champion women’s wrestling literally months later.

I honestly think AJ and Paige just had no chemistry and even if they were given something good, they couldn't have made it work.

[Chiral]

First Orton vs. Christian WHC match of 2011 made me want to give up WWE for good.

[chazraps]

Mar 23, 2019 16:13:57 GMT -5 chronocross said:

Booker.T going into his WM19 match with Triple-H and the actual match/outcome.

Mar 23, 2019 16:02:41 GMT -5 brettappedout (BLM) said:

Summer of Punk 2011. Just depressing.

Mar 23, 2019 17:39:25 GMT -5 Chiral said:

First Orton vs. Christian WHC match of 2011 made me want to give up WWE for good.

These three in this order (but with the top one lightyears ahead of the other two for obvious reasons).

[ChitownKnight]

Mar 23, 2019 16:10:58 GMT -5 abjordans said:

Nakamura on the main roster has been a recent one for me.

I think Nakamura has been booked pretty good. He’s got multiple US title reigns, clean wins over Orton and Cena, and he won a rumble. I know “Jinder argument” and all, but I feel like the wwe championship should be selective on who they crown and AJ and Bryan are the only ones worthy the past couple years.

[Abdullah]

Mar 23, 2019 17:38:41 GMT -5 Shark said:

Mar 23, 2019 15:51:12 GMT -5 Abdullah said:

The way they booked AJ Lee’s feud with Paige.

Very sexist of the same company that would champion women’s wrestling literally months later.

I honestly think AJ and Paige just had no chemistry and even if they were given something good, they couldn't have made it work.

I don’t think of it like that.

The way I see it, this was the first women’s feud to ever get a ‘this is awesome’ chant. They must have been the first women in years to get dueling name chants. Yeah, sure. Maybe they didn’t have the best chemistry. The extent of that is debatable.

But it doesn’t change the fact that WWE, champion of women everywhere, saw a hot feud between two women and diminished right out of the gate. Maybe their matches would have been better if the company were more invested in their success.

[abjordans]

Mar 23, 2019 17:47:35 GMT -5 ChitownKnight said:

Mar 23, 2019 16:10:58 GMT -5 abjordans said:

Nakamura on the main roster has been a recent one for me.

I think Nakamura has been booked pretty good. He’s got multiple US title reigns, clean wins over Orton and Cena, and he won a rumble. I know “Jinder argument” and all, but I feel like the wwe championship should be selective on who they crown and AJ and Bryan are the only ones worthy the past couple years.

Not saying he should be WWE Champion, but he should be more in the mix than he has been. He barely even gets on Smackdown anymore. And his “multiple” US title reigns are two short ones where he barely even defended