Really bad booking that baffled you

[4real]

Sept 14, 2014 23:47:06 GMT -5 madness50 said:

The main event of SummerSlam 2010. Just an absolute idiotic finish in which Cena got planted with a DDT on the outside and won the damn match less than two minutes later. An absolutely shitty way to end that match and it killed the Nexus in my opinion.

I believe the finish was rushed because they were running out of time but Cena should never have won that match, why he thought he should is beyond me

[Jedi-El of Tomorrow]

Stone Cold Steve Austin and Kurt Angle have an amazing feud in 2001, that really started after Triple H got injured. These guys were connected storyline wise for most of 2001, you go to 2002 neither guy wins the Rumble, Hogan is slated to face The Rock, so naturally we get Austin vs Angle at Wrestlemania 18 to blow off their feud. Oh wait, nope, instead their blow off happens on a random Raw, and Austin faces Scott Hall at Mania while Angle faces Kane.

Mark Henry debuts on Raw in 2009, destroys Orton, and the crowd goes nuts (crowds had been cheering Henry for awhile), but instead of giving us Henry vs Orton at SummerSlam, we get Cena vs Orton again. Henry doesn't even have a match at SummerSlam.

[kingoftheindies]

Sept 15, 2014 4:54:06 GMT -5 4real said:

Sept 14, 2014 23:47:06 GMT -5 madness50 said:

The main event of SummerSlam 2010. Just an absolute idiotic finish in which Cena got planted with a DDT on the outside and won the damn match less than two minutes later. An absolutely shitty way to end that match and it killed the Nexus in my opinion.

I believe the finish was rushed because they were running out of time but Cena should never have won that match, why he thought he should is beyond me

Jericho and Edge talked about it. It was rushed, but Cena also thought that the spot would be awesome despite them telling him it was stupid as hell. When the crowd shit on it, Cena admitted he was wrong.

[celtics543]

Sept 15, 2014 3:22:27 GMT -5 repomark said:

Sept 14, 2014 20:09:47 GMT -5 Sephiroth said:

Rikishi as the guy who ran over Austin. Seriously, this made NO sense to me. Of all the possible people, him??? Even if they revealed Triple H as putting him up to it, him??? To me the better plan woukd have been Jericho being the driver and he did it to get Audtin out of the way do there would be a chance for him to climb the ladder.

Good call! Jericho would have been a better choice, but I still theorise that they planned on it being Shawn Michaels but he was not ready/did not want to comeback at that time.

One minor one that always confused me (most of the major ones have already been mentioned) was after Vince won the Rumble he waivered his number 1 contendership status the following night, which was then given to Austin instantly. This rendered the Rumble match completely pointless. It led to the St Valentine's Day Massacre cage match, but surely the logical booking would have been Austin challenging McMahon for the number 1 contendership instead of the other way around?

Whilst we are on McMahon, I have a similar issue with him surrendering the belt shortly after winning it. Him becoming WWE champion in itself probably never should have happened, but I could accept it given he was one of the most over characters in the company, had a wrestler's physique and had won the Rumble that year. However, just surrendering the belt with out dropping it back to Triple H I thought was pointless.

The Shawn Michaels thing would've been pretty awesome, too bad it didn't work out that way.

As for the Royal Rumble thing, I believe they handled that by Commissioner HBK saying that since Vince gave up his number 1 contendership it went to the second place finisher in the Rumble, which was Stone Cold.

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Alex Riley. All of it. Tossing him out there when he wasn't ready and essentially punishing him for it. And then not rewarding him for actually making the effort to get better.

[543Y2J]

Nexus vs WWE Summerslam ending

Cena vs Barrett TLC

[unc40]

Batista winning the Royal Rumble.
The Nexus storyline going nowhere.
Superman Cena beating the odds.
Daniel Bryan joining The Wyatts.

[schma]

Admittedly I found the Orton punts a bit baffling. In Kayfabe this guy is injuring wrestlers constantly, threatening their very careers. Is he fired? Nope. Not even when he punts Vince. I know that most of the guys he punted were legit injured and this was a way to write them off but I feel the only way him punting should have ended was with a lineup of all the people he'd punted taking their shot at him.

[ayumidah]

Seth's promo, the end of the match against Roman tonight.

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- Rollins losing to Reigns clean tonight on Raw this week 6 weeks before the PPV
- Swagger beating Bo tonight 6 days before the PPV

[CATCH_US IS the Conversation]

Sept 16, 2014 2:06:40 GMT -5 @kn said:

- Rollins losing to Reigns clean tonight on Raw this week 6 weeks before the PPV
- Swagger beating Bo tonight 6 days before the PPV

I can't really call Swagger beating Bo "bad booking". Swagger is a former WHC and it's not like we're supposed to "take Bo seriously" as a "serious threat".

[xxshoyuweeniexx]

Sept 16, 2014 2:08:55 GMT -5 CATCH_US IS the Conversation said:

Sept 16, 2014 2:06:40 GMT -5 @kn said:

- Rollins losing to Reigns clean tonight on Raw this week 6 weeks before the PPV
- Swagger beating Bo tonight 6 days before the PPV

I can't really call Swagger beating Bo "bad booking". Swagger is a former WHC and it's not like we're supposed to "take Bo seriously" as a "serious threat".

It's less about the result and more about the timing. These two should have blown off their feud at a PPV, not 6 days before it.

[schma]

Yeah, WWE doesn't put much effort into midcard feuds these days so something as built up as Bo/Swagger was certainly a PPV match I figured. It could be because they need to fit all the title matches in but that seemed a really weird choice.

[Injustice45]

Jack Swagger losing to Rusev; he didn't even win one time against him.