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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 6, 2019 14:16:17 GMT -5
Debra winning the women’s title by technically losing an evening gown match because she was the woman to lose her clothes first And this is the Attitude Era in a nutshell.
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Post by chronocross on Sept 6, 2019 14:54:09 GMT -5
Morishima winning the ROH title in 07, never got into him to be honest. I mentioned this in another thread a couple weeks ago and got no backup LOL. I thought I was the only one that felt this way about Morishima. Around this time I stopped caring about ROH, the last event I went to was the first PPV taping in May 2007 with him vs. (I think) BJ Whitmer and just didn't care enough to go back since then.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 6, 2019 15:20:49 GMT -5
No Mercy 2007, where Randy Orton is awarded the WWE Championship, Triple H beats him for the title, and then Orton wins it back. All in one night. Just a masturbatory exercise in padding out everybody's title reign count. You know what made that even worse? Umaga got a shot at the belt, just for HHH to beat him, after beating Orton, and then he'd face Orton again that same night in a last man standing match and BARELY lose We think Cena and Reigns are bad but HHH was horrifying sometimes. You're talkin about the same Triple H who just about a year-and-a-half after this event no sold a sledgehammer shot from Orton while HHH was handcuffed to the ropes. Man I'm so happy that for the most part Triple H's in ring career is over.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 6, 2019 15:45:13 GMT -5
Smiley charismatic Jack Swagger winning the World Title and looking like this...
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Post by Starshine on Sept 6, 2019 15:52:15 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan beating Randy Savage the night after Savage had won it at Spring Stampede 98. Bret interfered on Hogan's behalf turning Bret heel. So they screwed up two of my all-time favorites to put the belt back on Hogan who I can't stand. I had already been over WCW and the endless NWO storyline for months prior to this and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. I never watched Nitro again after this episode unless it was for brief moments to point and laugh ay how comically bad the product was. Also the fact they pulled off the same thing twice in two years, with Savage winning the belt at Bash at the Beach ‘99 only to drop it to Hogan the next night with a slightly different Nash interference. It had to be some sort of rib on Savage.
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Post by HMARK Center on Sept 6, 2019 16:03:25 GMT -5
I wonder how Xavier winning the ROH title ranks on this. It made sense from a storyline perspective, but it was so early in the company's life, so its timing felt off and really didn't do Xavier many favors because the belt wasn't firmly established, nor was the the overall vibe of ROH. That said, it led directly into Samoa Joe's super reign and made Joe all the more over for dethroning him, so it served a purpose. As for World Titles, how about Triple H being stripped of the belt in late 2004 only to win it right back in the elimination chamber at the 2005 New Years Revolution and have another title reign arbitrarily added to his legacy? No exaggeration, that's what made me stop watching WWE after I came back to watch regularly in 2004 post-Benoit Rumble win. It wasn't even a rage quit, just a sense of "well, they're clearly not booking for a fan with my personal tastes, I'm better off walking away."
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Post by Some Guy on Sept 6, 2019 16:32:30 GMT -5
Big Show's reign in 1999 has to be up there somewhere. He was on his third face/heel turn in 3 months and thrown from a nothing feud with Boss Man to win the title because Stone Cold got hit with a car, then pulled it into the infamous ongoing Boss Man feud, then just lost it back to HHH six weeks later anyways. Then turned heel for the third time in less than a year just a few weeks later. Just a weird all around disaster.
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Post by chrom on Sept 6, 2019 16:34:35 GMT -5
Big Show's reign in 1999 has to be up there somewhere. He was on his third face/heel turn in 3 months and thrown from a nothing feud with Boss Man to win the title because Stone Cold got hit with a car, then pulled it into the infamous ongoing Boss Man feud, then just lost it back to HHH six weeks later anyways. Then turned heel for the third time in less than a year just a few weeks later. Just a weird all around disaster. I've always had the idea that Test should've been inserted into the match as a wedding gift from Vince and win the Title and drop it to HHH at Armageddon.
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Post by markymark on Sept 6, 2019 17:06:27 GMT -5
"Hervina" winning the womens title.
Pacman Jones pinning Sting to win the tag titles.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 6, 2019 17:43:41 GMT -5
Hulk Hogan beating Randy Savage the night after Savage had won it at Spring Stampede 98. Bret interfered on Hogan's behalf turning Bret heel. So they screwed up two of my all-time favorites to put the belt back on Hogan who I can't stand. I had already been over WCW and the endless NWO storyline for months prior to this and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. I never watched Nitro again after this episode unless it was for brief moments to point and laugh ay how comically bad the product was. Also the fact they pulled off the same thing twice in two years, with Savage winning the belt at Bash at the Beach ‘99 only to drop it to Hogan the next night with a slightly different Nash interference. It had to be some sort of rib on Savage. Glad I didn't stick around long enough to see ia happen a second time.
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 6, 2019 17:46:25 GMT -5
No Mercy 2007, where Randy Orton is awarded the WWE Championship, Triple H beats him for the title, and then Orton wins it back. All in one night. Just a masturbatory exercise in padding out everybody's title reign count. Orton and HHH running up more meaningless world title reigns? That's good shit, pal!
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Post by XaviersSS2015hair on Sept 6, 2019 17:50:19 GMT -5
Randy Orton beating Christian for seemingly no good reason after a day long title reign and Christian somehow winding up with a half assed heel turn out of it That felt so spiteful. I get that Christian and Edge were probably supposed to feud with Christian turning heel, but after Edge's retirement, Christian was a sentimental babyface that everyone was behind. Just a bad idea that I'm sure was fueled by Vince's weird opinions he forms about people. My favorite part about the whole Feud was after it was going for a few months and the announcers kept saying it "was one of the most even rivalries in WWE history!" Christian literally pinned Orton once in a tag match and won the title from Orton by DQ at MITB. Every other match they had ended with Christian getting pinned cleanly. That's my definition of a even rivalry.👍
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Post by Milkman Norm on Sept 7, 2019 10:18:56 GMT -5
Ronnie Garvin killed the NWA championship in an instant. No one bought him as a champ. But the match was fantastic. So the win was good from that point of view. But yeah... it was clear that Crockett wanted to Flair to win the belt at their premiere ppv in front of a large audience & the other heels had no interest in jobbing to a lame duck champion.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 7, 2019 12:01:27 GMT -5
Also didn't Dixie refute this by saying EY had the beard first on Twitter or some shit like that And she was going to sue them for copying her property. The woman's stupidity is outstanding Eric also hadn't won a match since November of 2012 I am pretty sure she tried to say that she said Yes first too... might have been kayfabed but... still.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Sept 7, 2019 12:05:12 GMT -5
Sheamus cashing in MITB on Reigns. Yeah I get people hated Roman but who the f*** wanted to see Sheamus as WWE Champion again? That reign killed his main event spot dead. That was bad, but I would argue that this one....... .....was worse. Well, it certainly was for Sheamus, though Daniel Bryan probably would have gotten just as over without it eventually.
In cheap-shotting Bryan, Sheamus looked like an absolute bellend, even more so when he wore the 18 SECONDS shirt the following weeks. It also denied fans of a close contest between the two, and started a trend of The Celtic Warrior to look like a total wanker in his feuds (Alberto Del Rio, Wade Barrett, Mark Henry, Damien Sandow). It also robbed fans of a chance to see these two at 'mania after their match the previous year became a battle royale.
this is classic Wrestling booking though. It's literally the Warrior pins Honky Tonk Man to win the IC Belt. Bryan was defending the title by hook or by crook the entire title run and was supposed to be a dastardly heel with how he was treating AJ and how obnoxious he was. The problem is the WWE grossly underestimated how popular/Entertaining Bryan was as the WOOOOORLD HEAAAAVYWEIGHT CHAAAAAAAAAAAAMPIIIIIOOOON!
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Post by Cyno on Sept 7, 2019 12:31:14 GMT -5
Man, reading about the Eric Young thing reminded me of how clownshoes TNA was when Dixie went full Dixie.
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Post by Gravedigger's Biscuits on Sept 7, 2019 12:33:43 GMT -5
Jeff Hardy winning the IC title because Umaga kicked out too late That was a planned title change, Umaga was beginning a wellness policy suspension and they needed to get the title off of him.
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Post by Nosnorb on Sept 7, 2019 13:52:18 GMT -5
this is classic Wrestling booking though. It's literally the Warrior pins Honky Tonk Man to win the IC Belt. Bryan was defending the title by hook or by crook the entire title run and was supposed to be a dastardly heel with how he was treating AJ and how obnoxious he was. The problem is the WWE grossly underestimated how popular/Entertaining Bryan was as the WOOOOORLD HEAAAAVYWEIGHT CHAAAAAAAAAAAAMPIIIIIOOOON! With Cody taunting The Big Show in the build up to 'mania about how he choked at 'mania so many times, that match was begging to be made a squash instead of Sheamus/Bryan, which was a World Title match and had the Royal Rumble winner. Also Didn't help that WWE had a WHC match at Extreme Rules the following month, which was everything the match at 'mania should have been.
It also sucks that Sheamus won the title at 'mania in an 18 second match that put a massive dent in his popularity, which is why I would put it in the list of worst title wins. Dude walked to the back with the belt after winning it on the grandest stage of all not joyfully happy, but incredibly pissed off, for good reason.
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Sept 7, 2019 15:13:40 GMT -5
On the note of Big Show and Cody Rhodes, how about Cody winning the rematch when Big Show stepped on a table in a Tables match?
It was hilarious to watch go down, but that's the sort of thing you should do on Raw for Cody to earn a title match, not on PPV to have the title change hands.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 7, 2019 15:37:35 GMT -5
Smiley charismatic Jack Swagger winning the World Title and looking like this... Like, why did this happen? He could still have done the really cool bit where he Ankle Locked Rey through half the arena while being his smug dick character
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