Worst WCW/ECW storyline ever???

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For ECW I’d say the lesbian affair angle with Kimona and Beulah. Love triangles are nothing new, but that was a really cheap way to top it off.

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Taz vs. Pitbulls/Lance Wright from November of 1997.

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Mar 31, 2018 21:35:39 GMT -5 cjh said:

Mar 31, 2018 21:17:06 GMT -5 chazraps said:

ECW: Mike Awesome vs. Spike Dudley

As ECW was emerging in the TNN era, this gets either dismissed for how it looked on paper or overshadowed in the booking that followed, but this is where ECW hit the iceberg.

Spike Dudley was a beloved original and ECW lifer whom the fans had organically gotten behind.

Paul legit slowly built Spike up as a credible threat to the title. He was a legitimate giant killer who was also a beloved babyface.

Mike Awesome was the unbeatable ECW champion whom nobody could take out.

Mike Awesome performs perhaps the most brutal and uncomfortable man-on-woman violence in North American wrestling history, shoot knocking out Spike's girlfriend's front teeth.

So here you head towards the pay-per-view with a babyface who has been legitimized and being able to conquer the insurmountable odds, going against the towering unbeatable brute whose assault on Spike's loved one made it extra personal and got the crowd firmly behind Spike.

...and then Mike Awesome won.

At the time, ECW was actually building an audience with women because of how well Spike's romance was being handled, it was nuanced and believable. This would have been the perfect love conquering all story, giving everyone a feel good moment and getting the belt off of Awesome so he wouldn't show up on WCW a month later as ECW champion.

It's one of those situations like Triple H-Booker T at Mania 19 where because of the feud, you absolutely have to have the babyface win, or else you drive away your audience.

I watched ECW all the time back then and have absolutely no recollection of that woman being on TV besides getting clotheslined by Awesome and the promo afterwards that Spike did with her where she showed her missing teeth.

I recall NONE of that.

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Shane Douglas holding on to the ECW title for all of 1998 and not defending it from the spring of 98 until early 99 while recovering from an injury.

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Apr 1, 2018 14:38:54 GMT -5 toodarkmark said:

For WCW I hated when Brian Pillman had to become the Yellow Dog when he was pinned by Barry Windham in a loser leave town match. Its an angle that worked for Dusty in Florida in like 83, 84 with Windham, and he decided to recycle it.

Brian Pillman was on the cusp of higher card status, especially after Vicious legit killing him in War Games, and Dusty saddles him with this lame old gimmick. And Windham never once said "I did the same thing. I was Yellow Dog!" They had Tom Zenk under the mask too, like "Its not Pillman!", but it just went nowhere and really pushed Pillman down the card real quick.

I cant think of anything that bothered me much about an ECW storyline, but I disliked the Beulah pregnancy storyline.

Simon is up to this point in WCW television in the Unnamed Wrestling Forums recaps of 1991. I guess it was supposed to be clever because Windham did it and he was the one to get Pillman out of the company. Then him putting a bounty on the Yellow Brian's mask was forgotten when he turned face.

The Beulah thing wasn't a bad twist, but if you followed the house shows, the continuity is screwed up as six days earlier, she was involved in yet another piledriver spot with Tommy. So a pregnant woman is still taking physical abuse, from the father of her child no less? Go figure.