5 Things: 5 Good Creative Ideas The Last 5 Years?

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With everyone so down on WWE creative right now, in the last 5 years can you even name 5 good booking ideas that went through with them?

I'll go with:

1. Initial Summer of Punk, Money in the Bank booking.

2. The Shield

3. Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels

4. Bringing back the Classic Intercontinental Championship

5. Initial booking of The Awesome Truth

Yours?

[EoE: Well There's Your Problem]

Daniel Bryan's booking directly after Team Hell No lost the tag titles to when he started the feud with The Authority. In trying to prove he wasn't the "weak link" (which most people thought was going to lead to a heel turn), he upped his wrestling game and fired up THAT MUCH, he somehow got even MORE over than he already was.

[Nickybojelais]

The initial impact of The Nexus, having a legitimately threatening group of young and hungry rookies ready to take over the old guard. Then Cena happened.

[Tiger Millionaire]

Seth Rollins being the one that turned.

[Perd]

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[Crappler El 0 M]

These are in no order and are not meant to be the five best. These are just five angles I thought of off the top of my head.

1. The Rhodes Family vs. Shield/Authority

2. Shield vs. Wyatts: Something's Got to Give

3. Daniel Bryan becomes a subtle heel after winning the World Heavyweight Champion.

4. Shawn Michaels is obsessed with breaking Undertaker's streak and puts his career on the line for one more chance.

5. Mark Henry is booked as World Heavyweight Champion and starts the Hall of Pain.

[PsychoGoatee]

Dolph's underdog character and how he's been pushed lately, especially at Survivor Series.

Seth Rollins and his incredibly entertaining sellout heel character.

Edge returning and winning the Rumble in 2010.

AJ Lee mania running wild and kissing everybody, running the show etc, it was genius.

Brock destroying Undertaker and Cena. (Where they went with it is still up in the air though)

[Bang Bang Bart]

Jan 7, 2015 23:55:08 GMT -5 EoE: Well There's Your Problem said:

Daniel Bryan's booking directly after Team Hell No lost the tag titles to when he started the feud with The Authority. In trying to prove he wasn't the "weak link" (which most people thought was going to lead to a heel turn), he upped his wrestling game and fired up THAT MUCH, he somehow got even MORE over than he already was.

Led to cool bits like Bryan wrecking the Shield by himself and beating Orton cleanly on Raw.

[Joe Neglia]

A lot of great choices already stated. A minor one but still one I appreciate - putting Jinder Mahal in 3MB. Even on as small as scale as it was, that was some serious stereotype-breaking they did there, given the vehicle.

[Starshine]

One I liked that had absolutely awful follow up was the Ziggler/Del Rio double turn at the 2013 May PPV (I think). It freshened up both Del Rio and Ziggler and promised a really interesting feud... Well, I mean, it should have. I'll give them full marks for the turn, but negative marks for everything after.

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Bryan Winning at Mania, the Lesnar/Cena Squash, and the Sting debut to Ziggler winning would be on here

If Creative didn't destroy them sometimes DAYS after the fact (And yes I know Bryan got hurt but the perpetual Kane feud beforehand didn't help him)

I'll go with instead, in no particular order

Shield vs Wyatts, which was just a consistently amazing match

The WWE Title Hijack by CM Punk

NXT, in general, if that counts

Mizdow

Crazy Coked out RKO Everything Face Randy Orton.

["Evil Brood" Jackson Vanik]

Cody's original masked gimmick was amazing and had so much depth to it. I really wish they took it further instead of having him casually drop it on a random episode of RAW. His match against Rey Mysterio at Wrestlemania made him look like a future star (which I hope he can be one day).

[Macho Pichu]

1. Mark Henry's been way better in the past 5 years than he was in the decade prior
2. The entire booking of The Shield. Not a single bad decision in the stable's booking.
2a. Shield vs Wyatts
2b Sheild vs Evolution
3. The Sting debut
4. CM Punk's pipe bomb, followed by walking out with the title
5. Using The Streak as Taker's storyline focus. Its part of why it being broken was so shocking.

[Cvslfc123]

1. The Shield's entire run
2. Mark Henry's Hall Of Pain run up until he got injured
3. Daniel Bryan's slow face turn as part of Team Hell No
4. Summer Of Punk up until Triple H got involved
5. Daniel Bryan from the end of his feud with Bray Wyatt until Wrestlemania 30

[TGM]

Awesome Truth, was probably one of the most entertaining angles of the past few years. It had so much more milage in it, it's a shame they brought Truth back as a nondescript face.

[FAR5222]

1. The Shield
2. Daniel Bryan's booking in the summer of 2013
3. The Summer of Punk until HHH got involved.
4. The Entire Mania 30 card
5. Nexus until Summerslam

Honorable mentions
Edge winning 2010 Rumble
Mark Henry Hall of Pain 2011
Brock Lesnar being the beast he is destroying Cena and Taker
HBK vs Undertaker I

As a fan those 5 listed are pretty important to me in my fandom of WWE.

[Lupin the Third]

1. Summer of Punk II
2. Bryan vs. The Authority with Bryan winning at Wrestlemania
3. Bray/Cena feud minus the Pay-Per-View matches. Love that crazy ass psychology Bray was using.
4. CM Punk/Undertaker feud for Wrestlemania XXIX.
5. Nexus up 'til SummerSlam