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Post by donny on Dec 30, 2011 10:45:45 GMT -5
While I would have to give a "dishonorable mention" to transitioning CM Punk's "Voice of the Voiceless" storyline into a feud between HHH and Kevin Nash, I think that the worst booking move of 2011 has to be the wasting of the first ever John Cena/Rey Mysterio match on free tv. In an age where every "big" match has been done to death, this was the one match that had never been done and could have had a monster buyrate for the company. It also could have let them hold off on CM Punk's return to the company, which would have made that angle a bit more realistic. The way that they wasted that match was the equivalent of WWE opting to do the first ever Hulk Hogan/Ultimate Warrior match on Superstars instead of at Wrestlemania.
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Post by cabbageboy on Dec 30, 2011 10:51:30 GMT -5
See, the whole post MITB scenario of Cena/Rey/Punk/Nash/HHH and everything else is all one barrage of bad booking. It's hard to single out one bad booking move.
Thus, I will say the disaster of the Edge/Ziggler feud. Ziggler would have been well served having a solid feud with Edge and losing a hard fought match at the Rumble. But putting the belt on him at all, especially in the idiotic Dusty Finish way he got it, and then the way Edge immediately crushed him....it just killed Ziggler. In fact every time the announcers call him a former world champion it makes me cringe.
In fact now that I think about it Edge's last 6 months as an active wrestler were a fiasco for SD. He had the awful Kane feud with Paul Bearer. The Ziggler feud was booked awfully. And Edge inexplicably went over Del Rio at WM and severely hurt ADR's momentum. Edge did nothing wrong himself, but the booking did nothing to put anyone else over and actively hurt a few guys to put over a retiring wrestler.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 30, 2011 10:53:24 GMT -5
I'd gotta go with the shotgunning of the Punk angle. He should have been kept off of TV for weeks, yet he was back in a week's time. They quickly turned what could have been the most memorable angle in maybe a decade into just another storyline in a hurry.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 30, 2011 10:58:01 GMT -5
Edge/Ziggler is my worst booking move of 2011.
The problem was that Ziggler lost every World Heavyweight Championship match and then was given the belt without winning... only to lose it ten minutes later.
Although he no longer has the infamy of being the shortest-reigning WHC, it nearly crippled Ziggler. Thankfully, it was a close-call as he rebounded once he moved to RAW, but you could've easily had another Jack Swagger case.
The other one had to have been Triple H and Kevin Nash segwaying through CM Punk's "Voice of the Voiceless" bit in the summer of this year. Punk had one of the best promos in all of wrestling this year when he confronted Vince McMahon and referred to Colt Cabana and Luke Gallows, but a few weeks later, it developed into Punk being sort of a mediator between an incompetent GM and a disgrunted friend.
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Post by stinger on Dec 30, 2011 10:58:02 GMT -5
The way that they wasted that match was the equivalent of WWE opting to do the first ever Hulk Hogan/Ultimate Warrior match on Superstars instead of at Wrestlemania. No. It wasn't. Hogan and Warrior were the biggest stars in wrestling at the time. Cena will never be as big as Hogan was at the time of WM6 and Rey is not as popular as Warrior was.
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Post by frogsplash45 on Dec 30, 2011 11:00:06 GMT -5
Making NXT into a two-man roster version of ECW for like 20 weeks.
If they wanted to change the format of the show, fine... but be concrete about it. Don't make us suffer each and every week as they try to make things more and more ambiguous.
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Post by Metalheadbanger Man on Dec 30, 2011 11:08:05 GMT -5
Christian's 2 day reign. He finally wins the title in a huge, emotional manner, and he loses it instantly all to fuel a cliched "The fans are responsible for this downturn of fortunes!" heel turn and make Christian into a whiny douchebag who never wins.
Don't get me wrong, I love Christian, but that was so sad.
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Post by Arrow on Dec 30, 2011 11:09:19 GMT -5
I've seen this opinion tossed around the board about the Punk storyline a couple times before, and now that we're months removed from the storyline, I'm beginning to agree: the biggest problem with the angle was that you were never really going to surpass Money in the Bank in terms of hype and intrigue. That said, the follow up should have still been focused on CM Punk, not Triple H. I wouldn't have minded everything else had Punk either faced Nash at Night of Champions, or Triple H turned heel and been CM Punk's main enemy. But keeping Hunter face caused the focus to shift to him and hurt the story as a whole.
Another one I'd like to mention is having Cena submit ADR and win the WWE title at Night of Champions. Was there even a point to that? I don't believe Del Rio needed to be champion at all, but the least they could have done was have him get DQ'ed or cheat at NoC and then retain in the exact same way he did at Hell in a Cell and Vengeance. Punk's win at Survivor Series would have come off a lot better.
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Post by frogsplash45 on Dec 30, 2011 11:14:46 GMT -5
Christian's 2 day reign. He finally wins the title in a huge, emotional manner, and he loses it instantly all to fuel a cliched "The fans are responsible for this downturn of fortunes!" heel turn and make Christian into a whiny douchebag who never wins. Don't get me wrong, I love Christian, but that was so sad. I think that booking decision actually worked out in the end. "One... More... Match..." is hilarious, and I think it is something that eternally puts Christian in the title picture.
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Post by donny on Dec 30, 2011 11:15:17 GMT -5
The way that they wasted that match was the equivalent of WWE opting to do the first ever Hulk Hogan/Ultimate Warrior match on Superstars instead of at Wrestlemania. No. It wasn't. Hogan and Warrior were the biggest stars in wrestling at the time. Cena will never be as big as Hogan was at the time of WM6 and Rey is not as popular as Warrior was. Are Mysterio and Cena as popular as Hogan and Warrior were in their prime? Probably not. But, they, like Hogan and Warrior, were the number 1 and number 2 babyfaces of the entire company at the time. I don't know about you, but the number 1 and number 2 top guys in the company squaring off for the first time seems like a pretty big deal to me.
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Post by Big Daddy Bad Booking on Dec 30, 2011 11:20:06 GMT -5
Miz being champion for as long as he was. It wouldn't have been so bad if he lost the title at 'Mania, which should have happened, but it didn't, and therefore dragged a worthless angle right down into China.
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Post by Urethra Franklin on Dec 30, 2011 11:23:38 GMT -5
Miz being champion for as long as he was. It wouldn't have been so bad if he lost the title at 'Mania, which should have happened, but it didn't, and therefore dragged a worthless angle right down into China. I know that you sell the Royal Rumble based on the battle royal itself and the title matches are normally throwaways (see: Holly, Hardcore vs. Lesnar, Brock), but a months long feud with Jerry friggin' Lawler in 2011 did the Miz no favours.
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Post by FUNK_US/BRODUS on Dec 30, 2011 11:41:22 GMT -5
The months that followed MITB.
- Transitioning the belt back to Cena two weeks after MITB. - A heatless Del Rio cashing in on a defenseless CM Punk after a pointless Kevin Nash. - Punk losing to Triple H. That match never needed to happen. - HHH being a face at a time where Punk needed a clearly defined enemy, in a feud where Punk almost seemed like the heel. - Cena getting the belt AGAIN at Night of Champions, beating Del Rio clean as you like.
Just a mess of booking that didnt need Kevin Nash, where several things were forced through just because Creative put too many ideas in, when you couldve held Cena/Rey until Summerslam, and paced themselves a little.
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Post by BigWill on Dec 30, 2011 12:23:35 GMT -5
No. It wasn't. Hogan and Warrior were the biggest stars in wrestling at the time. Cena will never be as big as Hogan was at the time of WM6 and Rey is not as popular as Warrior was. Are Mysterio and Cena as popular as Hogan and Warrior were in their prime? Probably not. But, they, like Hogan and Warrior, were the number 1 and number 2 babyfaces of the entire company at the time. I don't know about you, but the number 1 and number 2 top guys in the company squaring off for the first time seems like a pretty big deal to me. Mysterio was not #2 babyface. That right went to Orton. Plus Mysterio isn't much of a spectacle at this time. Maybe if they did the match in 2006 it would have been a big deal, but now not so much. Everyone knows at this point Mysterio's knees are pretty much held together with glue, so we aren't guaranteed to have a great match. Plus the fact that Mysterio's credibility was way down at that point. He didn't even look like a main eventer having jobbed clean to multiple people like Del Rio, R-Truth, and Punk. So no one would be expecting any less than another *Cena Wins* match.
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Post by Bo Rida on Dec 30, 2011 12:24:58 GMT -5
The conspiracy angle/anonymous Raw GM going nowhere, what's the point of investing in a storyline with no conclusion? Of course the conspiracy angle could still be ongoing but if that's the case they really need to mention it occasionaly.
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Post by donny on Dec 30, 2011 12:27:18 GMT -5
Are Mysterio and Cena as popular as Hogan and Warrior were in their prime? Probably not. But, they, like Hogan and Warrior, were the number 1 and number 2 babyfaces of the entire company at the time. I don't know about you, but the number 1 and number 2 top guys in the company squaring off for the first time seems like a pretty big deal to me. Mysterio was not #2 babyface. That right went to Orton. Plus Mysterio isn't much of a spectacle at this time. Maybe if they did the match in 2006 it would have been a big deal, but now not so much. Everyone knows at this point Mysterio's knees are pretty much held together with glue, so we aren't guaranteed to have a great match. Plus the fact that Mysterio's credibility was way down at that point. He didn't even look like a main eventer having jobbed clean to multiple people like Del Rio, R-Truth, and Punk. So no one would be expecting any less than another *Cena Wins* match. Are people honestly saying that the first ever meeting between John Cena and Rey Mysterio would not have been a big PPV main event? I have to ask what you would consider a PPV worthy main event. Cena-Miz, maybe?
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Post by BigWill on Dec 30, 2011 12:32:37 GMT -5
Mysterio was not #2 babyface. That right went to Orton. Plus Mysterio isn't much of a spectacle at this time. Maybe if they did the match in 2006 it would have been a big deal, but now not so much. Everyone knows at this point Mysterio's knees are pretty much held together with glue, so we aren't guaranteed to have a great match. Plus the fact that Mysterio's credibility was way down at that point. He didn't even look like a main eventer having jobbed clean to multiple people like Del Rio, R-Truth, and Punk. So no one would be expecting any less than another *Cena Wins* match. Are people honestly saying that the first ever meeting between John Cena and Rey Mysterio would not have been a big PPV main event? I have to ask what you would consider a PPV worthy main event. Cena-Miz, maybe? Just because it's their first meeting doesn't automatically make it a big main event. You have to factor in the fact that Mysterio was basically nothing more than a midcarder at that point, who couldn't even beat the top heels at the time. Who's going to believe he has a chance against Cena? Also trying to build a feud around 2 superstars who share the same fans is not a good idea, as you're forcing the fans to make a choice, thus lowering both superstars popularity.
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Post by Turd Ferguson on Dec 30, 2011 12:36:32 GMT -5
Half assing the HHH/Nash storyline.
I know a bunch of people didn't want to see it to begin with, but if they were going to go with it no matter what, they should have really given it good build. Bring in HBK, Waltman, or something. Between the delay due to Nash's health, and then having HHH gone selling his injury, it felt like they were going with a proper build and then it fizzled out and forgot to take the match off the booking sheet.
Vince's hotshot return, too, gets an honorable mention.
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Post by anticonscience on Dec 30, 2011 12:37:42 GMT -5
One that hasn't been mentioned so far that I hated was Christian becoming champ by getting kicked in the balls.
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Post by BigWill on Dec 30, 2011 12:40:32 GMT -5
IMO the worst booking move was keeping HHH a face during the entire Summer angle. It did nothing but prevent CM Punk from gaining full support of the fans.
Also second place would go to Cena winning the title at NoC. It served no purpose other than it allowed commentary to constantly brag that Cena is now a record setting 10 time WWE champion so as to help build up for Cena's match against the Rock.
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