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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Mar 29, 2018 16:32:39 GMT -5
Booker T. vs. Triple H or: The Racist Wins!
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 29, 2018 16:37:47 GMT -5
It's the closest WWE has ever come to admitting, "This story sucked, sorry fans. Here's a huge-ass reset button." It was shit, amateur writing, but it also was giving fans what they largely wanted, so a lot of fans gave them a pass on it. See also Rikishi going back to being happy and dancing just because he was told to. Also, Foley pointing out to Rock that the last time they'd been in the ring together, Rock had Rock Bottomed him. Rock waves it off with, "No one remembers that" and they continue being friendly.
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Post by Starshine on Mar 29, 2018 17:01:30 GMT -5
The 2009 Trips/Orton feud leading into Mania 25. I know a lot of people were hot for that feud since it kind of broke the 4th wall. But if you objectively look at that story, none of it makes any sense. Here's a timeline of exactly what happened leading into that match. - Mania 24, Orton retains the WWE title in a triple threat match against Cena and Trips. Loses the title to Trips the next month. - The week before the Rumble, Orton gets under Stephanie's grill and Vince threatens to fire him if he doesn't apologise to her. Instead Orton kicks Vince in the head. Immediatley after, he looks shaken by his actions. - Orton wins the Rumble by eliminating Trips. - Leading into the Elimination Chamber show, Orton gets into a fight with Shane, who wants revenge for what happened to Vince, while Trips (currently on SmackDown) gets in the WWE title chamber match. Orton also claims his IED led to him assaulting Vince. - At the PPV, Orton beats Shane, and Trips wins the title. - Orton attacks Stephanie on RAW, Trips runs him off and looks pissed. Their real life marriage is added into kayfabe WWE canon. - Trips wants Orton to face him for the title at Mania. Orton plays coy. Eventually the match is set up, and some weak no touch clause is set up only to immediately be removed the following show. - Orton goes on a long diatribe describing his "master plan." Bare with me here... getting a match with Trips at Mania for the title was his goal all along... Yes, that's right. The IED was bullshit. He did all of this because Triple H kicked him out of Evolution 5 years earlier and took the world title from him. Alright ignoring the fact Orton had a win over Trips at Mania already, they had been consistently feuding every year since then to this point. Fine, I can even forgive that too. But then we have the biggest problem with this whole angle which can be summed up with what Orton is claiming. Randy Orton attacked the McMahons in order to get Trips attention so he would have a chance to avenge his loss of the title to Triple H at Wrestlemania. Except when Orton kicked Vince, a) Orton hadn't won the Rumble, and b) Triple H wasn't even the damn champion. So master planner Randy Orton kicked his boss square in the head before he even had any sort of claim for a title match against his hated rival. In fact said rival was in the exact same damn Rumble match he was in. Any way you cut it, Orton would have to be a fortune teller, or have read the spoilers to know how his plan would work out. Yes, WWE sometimes writes dumb stories, but at least they tend to correspond to the laws of time and space.
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Post by warriorthug4edge on Mar 29, 2018 17:12:40 GMT -5
The Bella Breakup and reunion This makes perfect sense when you realize it ended around the time the storyline begged for Steph and Nikki to get their comeuppance.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 29, 2018 17:37:01 GMT -5
The Bella Breakup and reunion This makes perfect sense when you realize it ended around the time the storyline begged for Steph and Nikki to get their comeuppance. True, but it also came after a match between Steph and Brie where the audience seemed to be squarely behind Stephanie and throwing support at her, which was amusing.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 17:39:57 GMT -5
HBK's financial troubles. The premise was stupid but I thought the angle itself was pretty good. Largely because everyone played their roles superbly.
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Post by -Lithium- on Mar 29, 2018 17:57:37 GMT -5
The Cena fired by the Nexus angle has to be up there. There were some stumbling blocks along the way certainly but the logical payoff was Barrett wins the belt, finds an excuse to fire Cena anyway, then Cena eventually works his way back and takes it from him. So instead we get Cena fired and doing this big long passionate goodbye, only to come back immediately afterward and suddenly be able to curbstomp the entire group every single week, at one point even having his music play after he finished a beatdown. It's no wonder after the crowd had been cheering for Cena for awhile they were right back to being all in on booing him right after TLC. If Barrett wasn't going to win, I think the best ending would have been for Cenas to "interfere" (hit Orton), so the entire group will be suspended/fired from the WWE, rather then just Cena. That way, Cena takes out all of Nexus just like he said he would. Sacrifice himself for the WWE...
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Post by northernmonkey on Mar 29, 2018 18:14:03 GMT -5
It was bad to end Bad News Barrett
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Post by MrElijah on Mar 29, 2018 18:23:21 GMT -5
Billy Gunn chases IC Title, story ain't great but hey, Gunn rising up. Road Dogg puts on fun Hardcore matches, wants Hardcore Title.
Let's switch 'em. Why? SWERVE 'EM. Like, what was the point?
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Mar 29, 2018 18:32:36 GMT -5
- Rusev and Lana choose to celebrate their marriage - Here is Roman - Rusev, you are impotent - Lana, you are a whore - I'm now going to get your wedding cake all over you - I'm now going to kick your ass, completely unprovoked - I am a babyface
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Post by Can you afford to pay me, Gah on Mar 29, 2018 18:39:30 GMT -5
Vince McMahon Son angle ending up being Hornswoggle.
I second the CM Punk Summer of Punk. More so the whole HHH and Kevin Nash stuff that lead to the bright idea of 50 year old Kevin Nash in a ladder match.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Mar 29, 2018 18:44:52 GMT -5
What do you think are the worst written storylines WWE had produced? I think the saga of Big Show’s failed strip mall is my pick. They take a character that has almost no heat in Big Show, try to have him leech off of Daniel Bryan’s man of the people momentum with a convoluted tie-in to economic hardships using the one character who a year prior you had made an entire storyline revolving around him getting an iron-clad contract so he could not be fired. Then you remember he had the contract, give him a storyline where he could sue and financially ruin the WWE. Have him make the choice to drop the lawsuit that would save his finances in favor of a title shot that he doesn’t even win which would be the logical payoff to the storyline even though no one wanted that which makes him look like a huge idiot. And the next night he’s dancing in a diaper as baby new year like nothing happened. I think it’s hard to top that one.
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Post by Woo on Mar 29, 2018 20:04:00 GMT -5
Cena vs. Wyatt. Cena has to prove won't submit to the dark side by hitting people with chairs..... by hitting a dude with a chair. That story was abysmal. I genuinely thought Wyatt had broken Cena and won in defeat, but no, Cena just has zero psychology. Sting: This is nothing to do with WCW. JBL and Cole: THE WWE HAS BEATEN WCW.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Mar 29, 2018 21:15:22 GMT -5
The Cena fired by the Nexus angle has to be up there. There were some stumbling blocks along the way certainly but the logical payoff was Barrett wins the belt, finds an excuse to fire Cena anyway, then Cena eventually works his way back and takes it from him. So instead we get Cena fired and doing this big long passionate goodbye, only to come back immediately afterward and suddenly be able to curbstomp the entire group every single week, at one point even having his music play after he finished a beatdown. It's no wonder after the crowd had been cheering for Cena for awhile they were right back to being all in on booing him right after TLC. That was pretty bad. It's a shame that Barrett was the de facto leader, since while he could talk and had a good look, he was really mediocre in the ring at this point, and had the second worst finisher in the stable, next to Tarver. (Jeff Cobb does Tarver's finish MUCH better, while Tarver looked like he was doing it with about as much force as someone would use to empty a full laundry bag.) So, storyline wise, Barrett winning would make sense, I think they rushed to that payoff too fast to begin with. Still sucks they pulled the rug out from under the group, and they should have stayed the course, but I think it'd have bombed there, too. Nexus in general, for how badly such a promising faction was bungled. Out of the blocks, we had Tiegate, Cena's firing-that-wasn't, missing the boat on one of his best shots at an actual heel turn, the entire group sustaining injury after injury, and not doing anything with the Season 2 NXT rookies, apart from Michael McGillicutty and Husky Harris joining without any fanfare, where they could have used the mass beatdown at the end to for Barrett to recruit fresh blood into the faction. I'll say Hot Lesbian Action, though that wasn't so much an angle as a dumb one-off skit.
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Post by Sephiroth on Mar 29, 2018 21:15:55 GMT -5
Katie Vick. Nuff said.
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 29, 2018 21:21:38 GMT -5
That was pretty bad. It's a shame that Barrett was the de facto leader, since while he could talk and had a good look, he was really mediocre in the ring at this point, and had the second worst finisher in the stable, next to Tarver. (Jeff Cobb does Tarver's finish MUCH better, while Tarver looked like he was doing it with about as much force as someone would use to empty a full laundry bag.) So, storyline wise, Barrett winning would make sense, I think they rushed to that payoff too fast to begin with. Still sucks they pulled the rug out from under the group, and they should have stayed the course, but I think it'd have bombed there, too. Nexus in general, for how badly such a promising faction was bungled. Out of the blocks, we had Tiegate, Cena's firing-that-wasn't, missing the boat on one of his best shots at an actual heel turn, the entire group sustaining injury after injury, and not doing anything with the Season 2 NXT rookies, apart from Michael McGillicutty and Husky Harris joining without any fanfare, where they could have used the mass beatdown at the end to for Barrett to recruit fresh blood into the faction. I'll say Hot Lesbian Action, though that wasn't so much an angle as a dumb one-off skit. HLA was a mess. Didn't Jamal (Umaga) injure one of the women? He was downright reckless in his first run.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 29, 2018 22:21:50 GMT -5
I don't see how the Anonymous Raw GM can POSSIBLY be topped. It was a story with absolutely no idea where it was going nor any concern for having a payoff, just for the sake of having a deus ex machina that could do anything at all for no reason. Then, when they realized it should lead somewhere, it was just, "btw, it was Hornswoggle, we guess."
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 29, 2018 22:40:56 GMT -5
I don't see how the Anonymous Raw GM can POSSIBLY be topped. It was a story with absolutely no idea where it was going nor any concern for having a payoff, just for the sake of having a deus ex machina that could do anything at all for no reason. Then, when they realized it should lead somewhere, it was just, "btw, it was Hornswoggle, we guess." I still take it as it being he hijacked it for that one time, or else he just made his life awful for literally no reason before. Which is arguably worse. We therefore have NO reveal at all.
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Post by arrogantmodel on Mar 30, 2018 1:09:10 GMT -5
First one that came to mind was Edge & Booker's Japanese shampoo feud. At WrestleMania no less. Two of the best to ever do it, and that's what they came up with. For Wrestle-f***ing-Mania.
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Post by Rave on Mar 30, 2018 2:43:23 GMT -5
Cena vs. People Power was pretty damn stupid to begin with, but then the brainiacs writing it stopped paying attention to their own junk. Big Show was rehired on Saturday to interfere in Cena/Ace, where the stipulation was that anyone employed that interfered would be fired.
It took them over an hour and a hell of a social media roasting to notice they'd screwed up and cover their asses.
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