auph10imitated
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Post by auph10imitated on Mar 30, 2018 4:26:49 GMT -5
Kane, Lita and Matt Hardy is the worst nonsensical storyline in history for me.
She sleeps with Kane so he doesn’t beat Matt Hardy up even though Matt is a wrestler who gets beat up every night
She falls pregnant with Kane’s child. You would think in a situation like that you’d use contraception
She loses the baby when Gene Stitzky hurts her and in turn she joins forces with Kane who caused her all this bother them begin with like nothing ever happened
She turns on Kane and he is now the sympathetic hero after he basically raped her
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Bo Rida
Fry's dog Seymour
Pulled one over on everyone. Got away with it, this time.
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Post by Bo Rida on Mar 30, 2018 4:38:58 GMT -5
Expand Big shows strip mall to the authority in general. The Bryan saga had its moments and many think the ending was good but as a coherent story it was awful.
Seth's title reign was a mess as his character changed from month to month. The local men. The Bella saga. NAO tag champs. The roster standing on the stage like school kids. Undoing the s.series "ending". Ziggler and co being fired and just taking it. Wm32...
Not sure if Shane Vs 'Taker counts as the same story but that's up their too.
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mrbananagrabber
King Koopa
Paul Heyman's unofficial joke writer
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Post by mrbananagrabber on Mar 30, 2018 5:27:32 GMT -5
It maybe got abandoned because of injury, but "Jason Jordan is Kurt Angle's son" was terrible on every level.
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Post by PTBartman on Mar 30, 2018 5:40:53 GMT -5
"The Strike"
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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2018 7:36:00 GMT -5
This is from a different thread, but this is a candidate in my view, because what should have been great really, really wasn't. The Punk/Jericho feud. Matches were flat and lifeless but that's not my issue. So Punk's greatest moment for me, aside from his run with the New Nexus (I loved it, his Rumble run with all the members around him and the awesome RAW match with Cena) was his feud with Raven on the indies. It was based on lack of respect for each other, Raven who blew things several times over for addiction taunting Punk for his family history of addiction, and straight edge Punk furious that he was supposed to respect Raven within the code of honour. It came out of reality and felt real as a result. So who do they try and recreate the feud with? Jericho. Who has no history of addiction. Who when the feud is supposed to be based on the whole 'best in the world' shtick has no reason whatsoever to mention addiction starts to bring it up. It felt forced, fake and tacked on. I hated it.
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Woo
Hank Scorpio
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Post by Woo on Mar 30, 2018 7:37:00 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. There was no reveal. The Hornswoggle thing came months after the angle was dropped and was done for laughs.
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Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]
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Post by Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] on Mar 30, 2018 7:55:01 GMT -5
It's been brought up before but Sting's first promo trying to make his own path and saying him stopping HHH wasn't about WCW and Steph immediately comes out and makes it about WCW and the feud is built around Sting being the last great WCW legend that HHH has to beat, and then we get a shitfest Mania Match where Sting comes out to Japanese drums for some reason, and we get NWO and DX cameos because HEY GUYS NOSTALGIA, and the match ends with HHH hitting Sting with a sledgehammer, winning, beating Sting in what was basically his debut match with the company, and in the end, after Sting was bashed in the head by the dude who had to cheat to win... they shake hands, and hug, and everyone has a "WRESTLEMANIA MOMENT"
F*** you, seriously, F*** you for ALL of that.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Mar 30, 2018 7:59:08 GMT -5
The Authority also led to 4 weeks in a Row where both Raw and Smackdown ended with them kicking Bryan's ass.
Boring.
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Post by cabbageboy on Mar 30, 2018 8:25:49 GMT -5
It does seem like a ton of the really crap stuff has happened in the past few years, doesn't it? I haven't seen much ranting about how terrible a storyline was in the 1980s or 90s. I think in terms of long running crap storylines how about Lesnar's entire 2014-present run? It's actually not even so much a bad storyline as it is a massively ill advised mega push of a guy that doesn't deserve it and never has. But consider the following:
--Brock Lesnar ended The Undertaker's streak at WM 30. --Brock Lesnar then went on to destroy John Cena for the WWE title at Summerslam 2014. He did almost nothing with the belt, was never around, etc. --These two things were done primarily to build up a mega huge heel for Roman Reigns to defeat and cement himself as God's Gift To Wrestling. --For a variety of reasons, Reigns wasn't over. Thus, a change was needed and Rollins cashed in. This led to Rollins's entire awful title run. --Meanwhile, since they didn't get the job out of Lesnar that was required, WWE signed him to ANOTHER 3 year deal so that he could continue to put forth zero effort and bury all credible talent (Ambrose, Orton, etc). --After spending most of 2015 and 2016 not even knowing what to do with Lesnar there was finally a weird idea: Bring back Goldberg. So after Lesnar went over everyone on earth a 50 year old Bill Goldberg returns and demolishes Lesnar in under 90 seconds at Survivor Series. Then punks him at the Rumble just for kicks. --WWE apparently did not grasp that Lesnar's destruction was basically the endgame of the entire character. After all, where does the big bully go once someone kicks the crap out of him? Not to Vince. Lesnar instead goes on to beat Goldberg (who humiliated Kevin Owens here as well in that farce of a title match). --So now Lesnar is, again, a champion. What next? Instead of just getting this Reigns crap over with once and for all WWE holds off for an entire year! In the meantime Lesnar basically squashed any top challenger on Raw. Samoa Joe, Strowman, Kane, Reigns himself at SS, even the WWE champion AJ Styles (which proved Styles is a miracle worker). All of these men went down to a single F5, again just so Reigns can be the guy to kick out of it at WM to the crowd's apathy. --Finally we get to WM season. Reigns at long last finally addresses the elephant in the room, namely that Lesnar is a bum that never wrestles, collects a big paycheck to do very little, and is a waste of time. In fact, the rumors of Lesnar going back to UFC have been around for so long now that this match has been preemptively crapped on, and the build has done a lot to make fans hate Lesnar, but has done nothing to make anyone like Reigns. So we may get a WM 20 redo with both men getting crapped on by the fans.
The scary thing about all of this is that Lesnar, his push, and the incessant Reigns deification has left a path of buried wrestlers in its wake a mile long. Taker's streak? Gone. Cena has never really been the same since he was stomped. Rollins had his own awful title run and has never really recovered from it (and Lesnar factored in there too in a match where he destroyed Seth and made him look like a jobber). Dean Ambrose fell victim to Lesnar and his apathetic performances, and took a while to recover from it (debatable as to whether he ever did). Randy Orton was beaten senseless in that idiotic idea for a match, which led to a make up push including a Rumble win that led to the disastrous Bray Wyatt feud with maggots in the ring and the House of Horrors (this might have ended Orton's main event push for good). So the Lesnar plague infected Smackdown's booking as well. Kevin Owens had his title push killed off in order to indirectly feed the beast, and as such Jericho's feud with Owens meant less than it would have. And of course all of the title contenders Lesnar has beaten this year are all worse off because they jobbed in 6 minutes to a guy Goldberg destroyed in 90 seconds.
Just review all of that. Let it sink in how many careers have been sabotaged in order to push Brock Lesnar, and indirectly to eventually crown Roman Reigns. The hilarity is that after WM Lesnar is likely to take his ball and go home, while Reigns will be left as champion with no viable contenders since they've all been buried.
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msc
Dennis Stamp
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Post by msc on Mar 30, 2018 8:40:45 GMT -5
Didn't The Big Show/strip mall angle have the immortal line (paraphrased): "Giants don't live very long, so you don't have much left" or something like that. Urgh.
The Higher Power reveal was so bad, it had us convinced they'd panicked because it was meant to be Owen Hart. Innocent, more trusting of WWE's plot logic in those days.
Shampoo commercial feud was stupid. Also worse, as it was a swerve and I thought for a minute it was getting Tajiri on WrestleMania.
I've never seen the Kane/Lita angle before Snitsky punts the baby, and I'm glad.
Katie Vick and HLA made me switch RAW off, when I was a teenager. Both are instrumental, alongside Mr Perfect's death, in my taking a hiatus from WWE for a few years.
The Billy Gunn/Road Dogg title swerve was stupid, but do you know what was funnier? That storyline started with Billy Gunn sexually harassing Ken Shamrock's sister. That's not the funny bit, I hasten to add. So in the video package, Michael Cole goes "But this was part of Billy Gunn's master plan, to get an Intercontinental title shot!" So having legit pissed off the most violent man in the company, Gunn spends 5 weeks getting his ass handed to him. Come the match, Shamrock injures Gunn's ankle, wins clean and hurts Gunn so badly he is unable to compete of note in the Rumble match that night. Billy Gunn never wins the IC title, and has possibly permanent storyline ankle problems. Brilliant master plan, Bad Ass Billy Gunn, 10/10!
Sting/HHH was missing a vital element: Ric Flair interfering, then turning on Sting one last time!
Not yet mentioned:
DDP/Sara stalking angle
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Nosnorb
El Dandy
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Post by Nosnorb on Mar 30, 2018 8:52:01 GMT -5
Kane rapes and impregnates Lita. Lita gets attacked and has a miscarriage. This makes Kane a babyface. And Edge breaking up the couple made him a heel.
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Allie Kitsune
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Always Feelin' Foxy.
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Post by Allie Kitsune on Mar 30, 2018 9:36:15 GMT -5
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. There was no reveal. The Hornswoggle thing came months after the angle was dropped and was done for laughs. It should have just been Michael Cole. Sure, it would have been awful, but it would have made sense. E-Mailing himself crap from his phone and then being a big, grandstanding doofus about it.
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Post by Savage Gambino on Mar 30, 2018 10:22:42 GMT -5
The Cena/Eve/Ryder/Kane love quadrangle that helped nobody. Well, it did turn Eve Torres into the biggest heel in the company overnight. All because she friendzoned Zack Ryder.
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Post by Gerard Gerard on Mar 30, 2018 10:53:43 GMT -5
Punk's credibility has endured some serious missteps. The first Summer of Punk in 2008 ended up with him losing in a backstage skit. The peaks of Summer of Punk 2009 ended up in a rehash of the Montreal screwjob. You mentioned Summer of Punk 2011 ended up with HHH beating Nash in a ladder match. The Heyman feud was written backwards, with Lesnar beating Punk at Summerslam, but the feud continuing and Lesnar suddenly not giving a shit about Heyman as Punk whomped on him at HiaC 2013.
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Got fined anyway. Possibly a Moose
James Franco is the white Donald Glover
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Post by Talent Name on Mar 30, 2018 11:02:11 GMT -5
The Al Wilson saga or Chuck Palumbo possible abuser
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Mar 30, 2018 11:08:15 GMT -5
The Al Wilson saga or Chuck Palumbo possible abuser I don't recall that second one offhand?
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Mar 30, 2018 12:00:55 GMT -5
There was no reveal. The Hornswoggle thing came months after the angle was dropped and was done for laughs. It should have just been Michael Cole. Sure, it would have been awful, but it would have made sense. E-Mailing himself crap from his phone and then being a big, grandstanding doofus about it. I am a strong defender of this. Heel Cole was amazing for a while (particularly on NXT)... it felt like an entirely new kind of top heel character. If they'd pulled the trigger on him instead of feuding him with Lawler, it'd have done the impossible: made the Evil Authority Figure fresh. As much as people impugn the Hornswoggle reveal, it fixed the truly worst example of WWE's writing I can think of: Never revealing who the anonymous GM was. I could not wrap my head around how amateur that is... you can't set up a big mystery and then NEVER RESOLVE IT AT ALL. That's like... below the standards you'd expect from a fanfic on AO3.
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Got fined anyway. Possibly a Moose
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Post by Talent Name on Mar 30, 2018 12:14:53 GMT -5
The Al Wilson saga or Chuck Palumbo possible abuser I don't recall that second one offhand? When he was with Michelle McCool feuding with Noble there was hints of him of abusing her
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Reflecto
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Post by Reflecto on Mar 30, 2018 12:21:30 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. This is basically the same reason I'm actually down on the 205 reboot. It's basically WWE saying "We're forgetting Enzo, here's a huge-ass reset button", even if it means taking any gimmicks that WORKED on 205 Live and saying "this sucks. You're a good wrestler- you should be one." "k fam...I am Drew Gulak. I am a serious good wrestler here to wrestle good and put on the bestest fake fight on the card with another man I deeply respect." The Cena/Eve/Ryder/Kane love quadrangle that helped nobody. Well, it did turn Eve Torres into the biggest heel in the company overnight. All because she friendzoned Zack Ryder. In defense though, the rotten nature of that storyline is more a "time marches on." In 2012, yes, it'd make Eve Torres the most evil woman in the company overnight for friendzoning Zack Ryder. By 2015, people would make Eve the biggest babyface and Ryder the biggest heel for feeling entitled to have Eve because he wanted her. Now, it's 2018, and people are mature enough to say "No, no, it's possible for EVERYONE in the Eve/Cena/Kane/Ryder storyline to be a completely terrible person!"
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Post by JoDaNa1281 on Mar 30, 2018 12:43:09 GMT -5
The Cena/Eve/Ryder/Kane love quadrangle that helped nobody. Well, it did turn Eve Torres into the biggest heel in the company overnight. All because she friendzoned Zack Ryder. The best thing about that is...that was never the intent. Eve was not supposed to be a heel, both her & Cena weren't supposed to be booed after that, but they were. So, not wanting Cena to be booed, they have Eve cut a heel promo backstage the next week about how she used Zack, then had Cena slut-shame her in the ring later that night.
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