10 Best Booking Decisions In Wrestling History

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@bobbyfagan7760 2 ай бұрын

Mankind winning the world title in 99, that pop stone cold got

@marcohavokkhaos 2 ай бұрын

And it continued on when Foley became champ.

@GeneHackmansGhost 2 ай бұрын

Having Matt Damon win every single title at the 97 Cage in the Rage was ace booking

@dylanogg347 2 ай бұрын

Matt Damon!

@sbpmchris 2 ай бұрын

Miaaattt Daaammmon!

@TheMemeMachineMatt 2 ай бұрын

Allowing Scott Steiner to cut that promo had to be the best decision TNA ever made.

@All5Horizons 2 ай бұрын

I literally would have watched every week if they started a “Moment with Steiner” segment where they just let him say any words that came to his head.

@MrPauljayburke 2 ай бұрын

My number 1 - taking the KOTR win from HHH and giving it to Austin. Changed the business and all because Vince wanted to punish someone - the most Vince-outcome ever!

@iDollaSign 2 ай бұрын

Why does everyone say Austin didn’t have any submissions when he literally was using the million dollar dream as a finish just a few months earlier 🙄😒🤦🏾‍♂️

@martinmcnulty1482 2 ай бұрын

Well I’d say he probably meant that Austin had no submissions compared to Hart. In some way there was no way Austin was gonna submit Hart unless the bookers decided to do something extremely mad

@oxrhino 2 ай бұрын

Andre the giant heel turn has to be #1 look at the numbers from the network prime time event

@Filmation77 2 ай бұрын

Being the Elite actually made fun of The Botched Dark Order attack by "Eliminating " the Creepy Crawler who did the REALLY fake Punches .

@BerylliumGold 2 ай бұрын

When "Hulk Hogan instantly becomes champ" popped up, I was terrified he was defending WM9

@MrPauljayburke 2 ай бұрын

Lots of comments absolutely right but my contribution - listening to Edge when he turned down beating Taker at Mania. It wasn't even *that* big a deal then but think of the mega implications that decision had for Mania & WWE's most unique character after that.

@ChristopherJohn4389 2 ай бұрын

5:43 Ahh 19972. Great year for wrestling.

@jarlwhiterun7478 2 ай бұрын

It will be!

@RancidMango5150 2 ай бұрын

The excellence of execution. Still the Best eva!

@artirony410 2 ай бұрын

I'm glad you talked about the original inspiration for the nWo here instead of this just being the millionth video fellating the nWo as the greatest thing to ever happen in wrestling

@marcohavokkhaos 2 ай бұрын

It's actually the worst thing to happen to WCW

@artirony410 2 ай бұрын

@@marcohavokkhaos in the long run yeah

@Adam-zw1ck 2 ай бұрын

Uh no 🤦‍♂️

@artirony410 2 ай бұрын

@@Adam-zw1ck what?

@jarlwhiterun7478 2 ай бұрын

Dumb "fans" to think NWO isn't still the most successful wrestling angle of all time, slightly beating Stone Cold vs McMahon.

@bradypurvis 2 ай бұрын

Funk #49 starting to play in slow motion while your corpse just sits in the helicopter is just absolutely hilarious 🤣🤣🤣

@rubenayalabravo1367 2 ай бұрын

It's 6:16 in L.a.

@chrisrivers4560 2 ай бұрын

People always say steve austin had no submissions. Are we kayfabing or being serious?

@MarashcinoLarry Ай бұрын

I ignorant when it comes to Japanese wrestling. It was cool hearing these stories. Thanks, Simon!

@yadielenielbellecolon982 2 ай бұрын

Thank For the Top 10 Video 🧾🙊🤯💐🥰👍💗🌟🥇🏆😇🙏🏿🕊️✝️💟☮️🤍🌟🥇🏆

@JMartNotKMart 2 ай бұрын

I’m a simple man, I see Simon, I click.

@Handsome_Black 2 ай бұрын

Andy must have written this list.

@craigcarlock8910 2 ай бұрын

Hogan starting the nwo was the only time I liked seeing hogan on my tv screen

@mattyg4186 2 ай бұрын

Simon we both share the best match ever !

@jamalvargas6146 2 ай бұрын

Not Wrestling But Liam McGuiry Vs Emmanuel Newton In Bellator MMA he was the defending champion and McGuiry was the fast rising star with a hot undefeated streak It was going to go one way and I loved It alot

@maurojuan5667 2 ай бұрын

booking undertaker to be undefeated till he lost to brock at WM30?

@miguelautry5763 2 ай бұрын

Good list

@sharpefilms2287 2 ай бұрын

Unrelated to the list really but can we talk about the fact that Hogan was 31 when he won that first WWF championship? Dude looked 60. his whole career, muscles aside.

@geekytushar6455 2 ай бұрын

The Bloodline took wwe from 2019 to 2024, deserved a mention

@ComaAlpha 2 ай бұрын

Shawn should've been the third man and WCW vs WWF/WWe should still be going on today. Instead of nWo they would've been called The Kliq (like what Hunter and Shawn were calling themselves pre "degenerates" Bret Hart promo) and with Shawn's mic and ring skills the WWF would've been hit with a huge blow. Hogan being outnumbered by Scott, Kev, and Shawn would've forced things to work for him, brother.

@mikeydoc11 2 ай бұрын

Wrestling has existed for over 100 years, to say AEW having a terrible Dynamite then 2 weeks later having a good Dynamite is the 10th best booked thing that’s EVER happened is the most ridiculous thing I’ve ever seen 😂😂

@MrSHADOWANGEL999 2 ай бұрын

Glorious

@miketsamasiros3960 2 ай бұрын

Tony Khan taking over the final creative decisions for AEW has been the absolute worst booking decision any wrestling company has ever made in the long term. If he grew tf up and stopped obsessing over WWE, I think they'd be better off.

@DG_Raizen 2 ай бұрын

It should be noted that most people want to see a major promotion succeed. It's just a lot of people don't think TK is the best person to run the ship. It feels like the more criticism TK gets, the more these wrestling media channels come to his defense or hype him up. It's like the media drooling over a crappy presidential candidate(s). They're not good, we know they're not good, but they want us to start acting like they are. It's the same with Meltzer. The more he is criticized, the more these channels push his opinions. At this point, I'm convinced these defenses are done to encourage hate watching as any engagement is good engagement.

@jorgebarrera2165 2 ай бұрын

Thanks guys, that’s great, everything is great, we’re all great

@Limavadian 2 ай бұрын

🙄 If there’s a way for you to block me on KZfaq, PLEASE do it. 🙏

@WristFreeze97 2 ай бұрын

@@DG_Raizen Or, get this, people have different taste than yours. Why do WWE-fans insist that their type wrestling show is the only right way to do it? Frankly, if AEW was like WWE, I wouldn't watch it. It's not perfect, but I'd much rather watch it than I would anything WWE.

@ComaAlpha 2 ай бұрын

They need Jericho and Raven booking the main event cards and hire Vince Russo for the mid and lower cards. I would love to see Raven being a head booker again. He hasn't booked matches since his WWF run in the early 90s when he was also a co producer of Raw.

@SiriusBlackoutFr 2 ай бұрын

surprised they didnt make a netflix doc about Montreal

@D_AshProject 2 ай бұрын

Next year

@SiriusBlackoutFr 2 ай бұрын

@jakenolan5897 oh yeah For the Netflix deal Nice

@LibraJohnny 2 ай бұрын

We have Wrestling With Shadows and the DSOTR episode about it yet.

@thatboybear 2 ай бұрын

This is why I kinda shake my head at Taker’s take that Vince didn’t intentionally hold anybody back during the Invasion angle. DDP got put in an absolute trash program that killed every bit of the shine he had in WCW. Booker T overcame his early booking to claim some traction, but it took a lot longer than it should have. Booking makes or breaks you. Hell, it’s the only reason Goldberg exists.

@cerbrs.publications 2 ай бұрын

0:35 😂😂

@ferox965 2 ай бұрын

Hogan becoming champ in 1984 should be number one. It changed the game. Number 2 would be Andre turning heel. That was huge.

@nathanheckelman302 2 ай бұрын

Honorable mentions should be Jon Moxley defeating Tetsuya Naito at Windy City Riot 2024 for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship, despite some in the NJPW Locker Room disagreeing with the decision to make Jon Moxley the Champion, the shot caller for that decision was the original Ace of NJPW, the Eight-Time IWGP Champion and current President of NJPW, Hiroshi Tanahashi, he even stated that its a massive opportunity for NJPW with how big a star Jon Moxley is and whoever beats him for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship shall become a bigger star and get a brighter light shone on them. Also A.J. Styles winning his first match for the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship against Kazuchika Okada fully legitimized The Bullet Club as a proper threat to all weight classes in NJPW. Also Switchblade Jay White betraying Kazuchika Okada and Chaos to join The Bullet Club as its new leader.

@JOSHUABLEVINS-cb9wb 2 ай бұрын

I just wanted to see if Simon would actually respond to me lmao.

@DeAndrecastle 2 ай бұрын

6: 16

@Mister6 2 ай бұрын

WTF is with the narration???

@Adam-zw1ck 2 ай бұрын

Thank you lmaooo I thought I was going crazy. Why the hell is Simon talking like that??

@cathallynch8269 2 ай бұрын

Yeah, such weird enunciation and intonation 😅

@patrickdepew4976 2 ай бұрын

Ranking Shane Douglas' belt toss ahead of Hogan's heel turn, and praising Tony Khan becoming sole booker when it's blatantly obvious that he's terrible at it.......just smh.

@juiceweezer 2 ай бұрын

No love for Dustin Rhodes as Sevin? 😮

@marcohavokkhaos 2 ай бұрын

It's how I feel about Roman, every single year

@masterrserch3971 2 ай бұрын

#7 3:51 The moment when 5 or 6 year old me, already watching wrestling for quite literally as long as i could create memories, knowingly cemented his wee self as a Hogan HATER, all time... but then subconsciously became a damn near ONLY STRICTLY HEEL fan... He beat my then favorite, the Iron Sheik and i got so mad... i can safely and honestly say, 80s kid/wrestling fan, never spent one day as a Hulkamaniac or even fan... didnt mind AS MUCH with nWo... but yeah, fcuk a Hulk Hogan!!!

@tomkee4479 2 ай бұрын

I love Simon but Hogan's heel turn was number 9!? We're talkiy6ng about booking that changed the industry or had a huge impact. Hogan turning heel was o6ne of the if not the biggest things in the history of pro wrestling that changed the business

@My19812011 2 ай бұрын

I don’t think it’s in any particular order so it doesn’t mean that Hogan turning heel ranks below any of the others if it was ranked in order

@theLeomega 2 ай бұрын

I think the slump suffered by the WWE could have been avoided, if I had been given the book.

@CarlosCruz-ox9wc 2 ай бұрын

TK taking over booking is the exact opposite of a good decision lol

@dancehall9615 2 ай бұрын

I mean Andre heel, Roman heel,

@cathallynch8269 2 ай бұрын

I've met you in person and this is not how you talk, Simon 😅

@Acerthorn 2 ай бұрын

How about a list of booking decisions that seemed absurd at first but ended up being the right call in the long run? That sounds like an interesting premise! An example would be having Cody Rhodes lose at Wrestlemania 39!

@boyankovachev7982 2 ай бұрын

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@KK-qs2kq 2 ай бұрын

Hogan tirning heel.

@nickhorton7093 2 ай бұрын

AJPW !!

@EdricioAlexManhique 2 ай бұрын

Obrigado pelo apoio

@jamesmcgeachy5433 2 ай бұрын

🎉

@aporkpiepizza 2 ай бұрын

I hate the phrase "Say what you want about WCW". WCW from 96-99 was the only good place to watch wrestling. Everything the Fed did was a response to either them or ECW. The company got complacent just like the last 20 years of WWE and we're sold rightly for it, but they were great while it lasted

@marcohavokkhaos 2 ай бұрын

People always hate on AEW. No matter what they do, fans crap all over it.

@jimmythickness 2 ай бұрын

Please stop talking like that

@lln2v 2 ай бұрын

@roostermcscratch9060 2 ай бұрын

God bless his soul, but I can’t stand Simon Miller.

@ToddSmith23 2 ай бұрын

AEW and the word booking should never be in the same sentence

@rahulmungekar1982 2 ай бұрын

Why are you speaking like this

@ToddSmith23 2 ай бұрын

Your AEW best booking was Tony booked something so bad even the AEW fans hated it, so Tony stopped that and tried something else.

@jessemarques9577 2 ай бұрын

Peepee poopoo 0:17

@MultiOliver22 2 ай бұрын

Another aew, dave melzer mark

@KelticTim 2 ай бұрын

Is there a reason you stretch out words with an E in them? It sounds ridiculous

@ToddSmith23 2 ай бұрын

There is less to hangman’s game, much much less

@ScarredCore1 2 ай бұрын

Another video to sugarcoat AEW…

@Adam-zw1ck 2 ай бұрын

Wait what? Was there even any aew stuff on the list?

@WristFreeze97 2 ай бұрын

@@Adam-zw1ck AEW was mentioned once (1), it's just that some WWE diehards are so insecure they lose their minds when you say anything positive about AEW.

@ScarredCore1 2 ай бұрын

@@WristFreeze97 so you think that mention was better than The Rock turning heel again this year? Burying the hatchet with CM Punk and letting him come back and feud with Seth and Drew? Letting AJ Styles be the inheritor of Bullet Club after Prince Devitt? Turning Roman finally heel? Hell, even CWC back in the day was a better contender, yet you crybabies always find a way to try to justify sugarcoating a dead company...

@ScarredCore1 2 ай бұрын

@@Adam-zw1ck read my reply, you will understand why. This list is just trying to calm the storm that's dramatically effecting aew in a very bad way...

@scotte2177 2 ай бұрын

Anything aew is not worthy of a top 10. To say hogan turning heel is #9 behind ecw anything is dumb. They went out of business

@gregmartin114 2 ай бұрын

Aew isn’t in top 10 for anything in wrestling history

@ikarosimon3865 2 ай бұрын

Mark detected

@oxrhino 2 ай бұрын

AEW derangement syndrome

@matthewcox9993 2 ай бұрын

It's okay to want to be positive. But positivity doesn't change the fact that AEW isn't great like delusional fans like to tell everyone. Until Tony and fans get that, things won't change.

@Adam-zw1ck 2 ай бұрын

No shit it sucks but what a weird statement to make lmaooo

@WristFreeze97 2 ай бұрын

"Cheesburgers don't taste good, and if you think they taste good you're delusional"

@WristFreeze97 2 ай бұрын

Personally, I can't watch a full episode of any weekly WWE show, does that mean that WWE is objectively bad and everyone who likes it is delusional?