10 Times WWE Totally BOTCHED The Booking

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Ай бұрын

Despite all the magic moments WWE has given us over the years, they sometimes botch the booking entirely. From turning Austin heel at WWF WrestleMania X7 through to all of the WCW Invasion storyline, these are times that Vince McMahon and co totally botched the booking of the show.
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@StunnedByWrestling Ай бұрын

Do you agree with my picks for the worst booking botches in WWE history? What would your picks be? As always, if you enjoyed the video or even if you didn't, your 👍 or 👎 are much appreciated!

@kidgruesome407 Ай бұрын

I LOVE this channel. Its hard to get exited for bad booking but i watch all your vids.

@roninmarketing4048 Ай бұрын

Yes, especially with Sting. That was heartbreaking how we never got the match we ALL wanted.

@DaManEX1983 Ай бұрын

Sting and Starrcade 1997 and its aftermath.

@kidgruesome407 Ай бұрын

@@roninmarketing4048seriously, sting should have won his debut match. maybe even given the WWE title just to put him in the lineage. if sting was absolutely set to lose then have sting vs taker.

@PlatinumRoseLady Ай бұрын

Brock ending The Streak Also - Brock ending The Streak And finally - *whips out megaphone* BROCK. ENDING. THE. FRIGGING. STEAK.

@braddelisle6902 Ай бұрын

"hey I have an idea, let's set up a real boxing matches and when they don't NATURALLY go the way we want, well punish the winner" dumbest idea ever. Poor Bart Gunn, they did him dirty for NO REASON!

@MrJamBluejam Ай бұрын

Roman never won back to back Rumbles, but I can understand why it feels like he did.

@javi994 Ай бұрын

Thank god he didn’t, tho I can just imagine the crowd 😂

@DomSte128 Ай бұрын

Vince took EVERY opportunity to BURY WCW, he only pushed ex-wcw guys if they went to WWF before WCW's downfall, bury Sting, bury wcw's PPV to NXT and even buried the Big Gold, the best looking belt of all time, to a generic WWE title.

@stevegallo8483 Ай бұрын

Booking DDP as the one stalking the Undertaker's wife was another example of Vince burying a WCW guy.

@criminalmindsgirl2936 Ай бұрын

Even Roman being heel was awful. The same mess...consistent interferences and him barely showing up to defend his title. It was all predictable. If he wasn't related to The Rock or had Paul Heyman as his manager. Dude would be a mid carder

@bluraysrule8809 Ай бұрын

LOL

@jasondouglas152 Ай бұрын

Very true. Suffering succotash

@derychweber6134 Ай бұрын

Yes I agree totally. I find him boring and guess got sick of them pushing him all the time.

@NUCNWolf Ай бұрын

Bro just learned what being heel means lmao

@boredbitch666 Ай бұрын

^ Bro doesn't know dominant heels exists lmao

@Skoswanson Ай бұрын

Bro you’re one of my Favorite Channels, Keep up the bloody good Work 👊🏽👊🏽👊🏽

@MarvelMTs Ай бұрын

HHH being racist to Booker T and then winning was atrocious. Why no one resisted the idea is beyond me. HHH could get the title back at Backlash after giving Booker the title

@J00icus Ай бұрын

Most based moment in wrestling history. Cope-a-Cabana.

@CreightonRabs Ай бұрын

8:02 In retrospect, the best move WWE made with Roman Reigns was to not only reinvent him as the "tribal chief" and play off of the real-life family history in the industry with the Bloodline angle, but also by pairing him with one of the best talkers in the business in Paul Heyman.

@melanineyedoc Ай бұрын

Uh, I'm pretty sure Batista won the Royal Rumble in 2014 and Triple H did in 2016, so when did Román win B2B Royal Rumbles?

@kenmasters4219 Ай бұрын

He didnt

@laurenalexander4438 Ай бұрын

I still think the entire roster should've walked out when Vince didn't cancel Over the Edge

@erictorres112 Ай бұрын

And they not paid?

@boredbitch666 Ай бұрын

ever heard of a union?

@jerm5948 Ай бұрын

Bart Gunn was done dirty

@Robert-ey9xh Ай бұрын

I'd have both rescheduled and refunded everyone's money.I'd have done the Invasion better.Hell,my cats could've done that one better.

@criminalmindsgirl2936 Ай бұрын

No, it made it clear that Hogan was running things. Creative control

@criminalmindsgirl2936 Ай бұрын

If they wanted Austin to turn heel. They should've just had him turn heel at the Invasion PPV. Not at WM 17

@megamanxhunter Ай бұрын

I think the heel turn wasn't bad. The only issue was there was no credible babyface to face heel Austin, especially with The Rock leaving to shoot The Scorpion King.

@criminalmindsgirl2936 Ай бұрын

@megamanxhunter , I only found some of his heel work entertaining

@SiReTV8929 Ай бұрын

I don't think the Invasion PPV was in the tentative plans of the WWF until maybe, a couple of months into the storyline, so in hindsight I don't think Vince could have planned the turn on that show.

@mrrobluxo2369 Ай бұрын

Austin’s heel turn was more of a timing thing. Stupid as hell u have him turn in his hometown when he’s extremely over. Another thing was there really was no other credible faces to rival him. Not even the rock who people were starting to sour on when he started going to Hollywood

@JacobyJ56 Ай бұрын

There is no more overplayed Moment On wrestling KZfaq then Team Cena versus The Nexus

@jaysonarends145 Ай бұрын

Huh

@bluraysrule8809 Ай бұрын

Reading is fun.

@Kiernanglynn20 Ай бұрын

The internet community craps on 01 heel Austin all the time. I honestly thought it was entertaining as hell. I know he’s said he didn’t really like it but he was definitely a great heel

@anonamatron Ай бұрын

Actually Yokozuna challenged Hogan, not the other way around. I somewhat bought this as a kid and remember being happy Hogan got thr belt away from the bad guy but I was totally disappointed Bret lost it and thought it was stupid that the "match" was two seconds long. I saw Bret with that belt at a house show, and high fived him even after he beat Papa Shango (who I was REALLY stoked to see live). So, I guess you'd say he was my champ. I liked Hogan a lot back then though because he was the superhero on every VHS PPV I rented.

@jeremywilliams5141 Ай бұрын

Let's not forget two of the worst booking decisions which both involve The Fiend Bray Wyatt: Hell in a Cell 2019 and Super Showdown 2020 against Seth Rollins and Goldberg respectively. Also, Roman Reigns never one back-to-back Royal Rumble matches. He only won in 2015.

@robertmoore294 Ай бұрын

Vince is cold hearted. Most of the problem is all on Vince behind the scenes and everyone still support that guy.

@michaeljohnston4459 Ай бұрын

Lets not forget every WWECW angle. Actually, on second thought, lets forget about that.

@americancheez Ай бұрын

I actually loved the Auston heal turn. It wasn’t that plausible, I admit…but the comedy that ensued was golden.

@bluethunder250 Ай бұрын

Personally, I think Austin did a great job portraying a paranoid, psychotic heel. And he was able to get people to boo him. Look at his promo after Judgment Day and see what I mean.

@michaelgrant6899 Ай бұрын

He started the "WHAT?" chants, making him the most despicable heel to his coworkers and future wrestlers

@cliffbot638 Ай бұрын

@@michaelgrant6899 Even he regrets starting it. That chant is a cancer to the WWE

@officialfumofeltingchannel1490 Ай бұрын

@@cliffbot638No for modern scripted WWE its necessary to let wrestlers know they are boring us all

@javi994 Ай бұрын

JR sold that turn like the world was ending

@michaelgrant6899 Ай бұрын

@@javi994 Nothing will ever top J.R and Heyman on commentary.

@panelvixen Ай бұрын

What if it had been Bray Wyatt that ended the Undertaker's streak?

@byroncormier8532 Ай бұрын

The Owen situation isn't technically a booking decision. It was a tough call that with the benefit of hindsight was a mistake but in that moment and without said hindsight is tough to say how you'd react in the same spot. I personally feel it was wrong but at the same time there is a reason show business has the saying the show must go on. As stupid as that is.

@spinmaster0 Ай бұрын

The invasion was one of the worst - choosing product superiority over potentially making billions! WWE had to win, even when Sting finally came over.

@stevegallo8483 Ай бұрын

The WCW Invasion never had a chance. Vince wouldn't buy out the contracts of the top WCW guys (Sting, Goldberg, DDP, Hall, Nash, Hogan, Steiner, Flair), so there were only the mid card and lower card guys available.

@andrewblanchard2398 Ай бұрын

ROMAN REIGNS was never meant to be a main event player

@melanineyedoc Ай бұрын

I don't agree with the WM17 pick. The only thing that derailed that run was that there were no credible faces on his level. Triple H was heel and so was Rock. Taker hasn't ever been the main babyface, HBK was gone, Angle was just not ready yet

@meatwad376 Ай бұрын

Scotty 2 Hotty?

@HikeWizard Ай бұрын

Rock wasn't heel in 2001. He left for a while the raw after WM17.

@PlusUltraAdrian Ай бұрын

But fans didn’t want to boo Austin either. Yes, he portrayed the character well, but it was a heel turn that didn’t need to happen. Especially if you have no top babyfaces to feud with him.

@PhantomofDB Ай бұрын

Roman Reigns beating taker at mania should be on here. It was meant to be a career ending match but Roman was not the guy and put on a horrendous match so they had to undo it. All for taker to have 2 losses now

@RedragonReviews Ай бұрын

You completely right about that 14:07 Vince is wild man just wild

@IncredibleFulk1 Ай бұрын

14:49? The video is only 14:29.

@RedragonReviews Ай бұрын

@@IncredibleFulk1 my bad I guess I put the wrong time frame

@KevPlayeruwu Ай бұрын

The worst is that The Nexus thing, Wrestlemania 9 and Stone Cold heel turn were ideas of the own wrestlers 💀

@marvelsProtege Ай бұрын

15:09 this was more than money this was no one is more important than the business I can't blame his wife for hating VKM with all her heart

@jerichobeach2967 Ай бұрын

Austin heel turn was great. Still better as a face but austin could do no wrong in those days Hit the nail on the head with the RR forced stuff

@rileyholden-zc9ip Ай бұрын

Asuka and Becky never should have lost to Beinca and Reah

@chrisinglis5631 Ай бұрын

Does Triple H have any victories that aren't in matches that have no DQ? 😂 I swear, if he can't hit someone with a sledge or a chair hes basically worthless.

@hugheswhiteman1674 Ай бұрын

Hogan+Cena+super Roman=Vince. Flip it how you want, it's the same 🥪 the invasion angle sucked

@jefferyjones8399 Ай бұрын

Heel Austin could have worked but I wouldn’t have aligned him with McMahon

@boredbitch666 Ай бұрын

stone cold should've been aligned with paulie

@fohawk871 Ай бұрын

01 heel austin was amazing and fun to watch. Him and hhh beating brothers of destruction was the most infuriating moment of my childhood

@NuMetalfan1996 Ай бұрын

Hogan and Bret at Mania 9 Babyface Diesel in 94/95 Bob Backlund as WWE champion in 1994 The 2001 Invasion nWo in WWE Goldberg in 2003 The 2006 ECW Relaunch December To Dismember Vince McMahon’s illegitimate Son Khali as world champion in 2007 The 2010 Nexus Invasion The Anonymous Raw GM Miz and Swagger as world champions in 2010 Del Rio as WWE champion in 2011. Bray Wyatt as a whole unfortunately (RIP) Batista winning the 2014 Royal Rumble and not Bryan. Babyface Roman Reigns from 2014 to 2020 Jinder as WWE champion in 2017 The Brand Split as a whole, they treat it like a joke. Kofi as WWE champion in 2019. Strowman as Universal champion in 2020 Miz as WWE champion again in 2021 Big E as WWE champion in 2021 Cody Rhodes as WWE champion in 2024 I would say they are WWE’s worst ever creative blunders.

@BusinessMan1619 Ай бұрын

The PPV should have stopped when Owen died. We now know for certain that it was a tragic accident but in that moment it could have been a crime scene. The police should have immediately come in to investigate for possible foul play. Nobody could have known all the details in the moments after.

@thomasbecker6185 Ай бұрын

So Mr AI may I ask you are these really your pics because it sounds like you just made a very obvious list with storylines that people have bashed to death

@andrewblanchard2398 Ай бұрын

06:34 BUTTERBALL aka BUTTERBEAN had a loaded glove

@paulweston8408 Ай бұрын

Something I never hear about with Cena and the Nexus Summerslam angle is what happened on RAW the next night. Each member had a match against a WWE Summerslam team opponent. If I remember correctly, Nexus won all but one match. Try and guess the only WWE wrestler to go over? Cena, of course it was John Cena🙄

@younglove3362 Ай бұрын

I was happy Austin won against the Rock. So I wasn't mad when Vince came out to help. The Rock was on the verge of gaining a momentum comeback. He would have won if Austin didn't have Vince help.

@stevegallo8483 Ай бұрын

Hogan beating Yokozuna at that Wrestlemania right after Yoko won the belt from Bret was BS. Then Hogan was supposed to drop the belt to Bret at a later date, but that didn't work for Hogan, brother. He didn't think Bret beating him would be believable. He instead dropped the belt back to Yoko. Having Brock Lesnar end the streak was another bad booking decision. Lesnar didn't need that win. If the streak had to end, give the honor to a young guy (like maybe Bray Wyatt?) who could benefit from it.

@adicrossover7744 Ай бұрын

Going with Bret in 94 almost destroyed the WWF. Of course Vince held onto Hulk as long as possible. Bret, Diesel and Shawn were terrible draws

@andrewblanchard2398 Ай бұрын

WWF'Ss greatest decisions was to not give the WWF TITLE to : OWEN HART & BRIAN PILLMAN

@leethecomedian Ай бұрын

This may be a crazy statement But I think if sting doesn't get hurt by Seth rollins He goes on a hell of a run and we don't even remember Wrestlemania. But what happened happened

@andrewblanchard2398 Ай бұрын

why do so many wrestlers get covered in tattoos ?

@MrBrownsugar85 Ай бұрын

lol this made me glad that Vince is gone

@VinlandicSoul Ай бұрын

Hearing you mention Roman Reign’s forced push gives me much pleasure & validation. I’ve always felt that way.

@gabrielledormuth4634 Ай бұрын

He was forced down our throats from the beginning If they let Roman get over the regular way it would have been a lot better in the long run

@andrewblanchard2398 Ай бұрын

the worst was making the FOLLOWING WWE champion ROMAN REIGNS KOFI KINGSTON BRAY WYATT SETH ROLLINS and many others

@symesalexander390 Ай бұрын

AMEN ‼️ 😊

@J-High666 Ай бұрын

Roman no matter what will have a push especially since the rock is in charge or are the gonna do a quarter back sneak and then 1 of Vinces boys is in charge i mean power juggle the silent partners

@Michaelssj2 Ай бұрын

I agree

@drums4lyfe0987 Ай бұрын

When Roman returns, he will get the giant pop Vince always wanted... without him🤣

@criminalmindsgirl2936 Ай бұрын

All Cena ever did was pull backstage politics. Another Hogan 🙄🤦‍♀️

@ElmoKnowsWhereYouLive5150 Ай бұрын

I'm dying of AIDS.

@dollarbill6342 Ай бұрын

People still aaying austin turning made no sense did you watch the build or just know the histiry of the match lol

@alexmelendez6732 Ай бұрын

Sting vs hhh was an internet mark dream match stemming from wrestling message boards in 2001. I thought the match was great truthfully qw waited at that point 20 years for the nwo to finally face dx it worked i loved it. It was not lazy but sting losing was lazily bad. And arn anderson did say hhh wanted to put sting over vince said no way he wanted the last big star in wcw to pay his dues by losing again bad call. And yeah hogan getting the title at mania 9 is a whole story in its own.

@donaldsalkovick396 Ай бұрын

Of course we got to get racism in there

@andrewblanchard2398 Ай бұрын

WWE wouldn't let CODY RHODES win clean

@BoereViking Ай бұрын

14:14 if the show stopped the satanic ritual wouldn't have been complete...

@TheHive616 Ай бұрын

I've always wondered, it seemed like 99 SHOULD have ruined WWF, but they got bigger than ever, despite spending most of that year being kinda... Well, inconsistent, let's say. I think maybe a sacrifice was BEING made, that Vince would never risk being anywhere but the top. It was like what Disney did in the 30s, except it didn't start WWII...

@BiggieTrismegistus Ай бұрын

🤦🏻‍♂️ Oh dear god...

@TheHive616 Ай бұрын

@@BiggieTrismegistus It's true, Walt Disney made a pact with the Blood God to ensure Adolf Shitnose would rise to power. Of course, even the Blood God can't stop syphilis-fueled insanity and poor military tactics, but he gave him the chance...

@FULANODETAL Ай бұрын

ALL NXT

@kazallroberts Ай бұрын

For me at least I didn't care how The Invasion was going to play out because how the storyline succeed, it's unlikely we would have gotten the Ruthless Aggression era which help bring a lot of fans back to the product. I say this because the WWF's product following Wrestlemania 17 up till June of 2002 wasn't the best.

@whoppingsausage Ай бұрын

Goldberg

@jamilaharmstrong9677 Ай бұрын

Um, I don't know where you get your info man. Roman Reigns did not win back to back royal rumbles. He only won one

@jasontodd1896 Ай бұрын

Austin heel turn in 2001 was terrible . Him teaming with hhh was dumb af . Hhh buried Austin during their feud. Austin never beat hhh in their whole feud 1999 to 2001. Smh

@mikeklassic78 29 күн бұрын

Any match with Dopey Dom is a bad booking....and an insult to real wrestlers

@shrews12001 Ай бұрын

The Nexus was never going to be anything. None of them were any good and it felt terribly forced when they tried to make them look like a threat.

@bustakitayancey7261 Ай бұрын

I've just gotta state the obvious according to how I, Bustakita, sees it: Rasslin and its storylines aka kayfabe, was so much more better wen tthere were more different rassling outlets/promotions had people junpimg from this organization to that organization. I won't lie though, my favorite rassling days were the 80s to the mid 2000s (right about 2000-2006, 2007). I loved the NWO, Da Outsidaz, DX, Hardcore Stone Cold. But wen VM decided to literally buy out all the different promotions that's when Rasslin lost its appeal to me. I like a few of the rasslers that are out now 😍 but I'm not as invested as I was long ago.

@chris_t2020 Ай бұрын

I love Bret but he wouldn't have been able to beat Hogan clean.

@mysticx0 Ай бұрын

you mention hhh racist comments in the booker fued and the very next clip is lesnar but you dont mention how he beat rock for the whc, lashley for his title, kofi for his title, big e for his title. that says so much more than a comment about bookers hair.

@agent95_ Ай бұрын

Roman wasn’t a bad decision when you base it off how much heat he drew. And how the crowd are begging for him to come back. Roman was star just like Rock from the get go. And the fans begged and pleaded for him to go away… until he did.

@noneedtoknow-yv2tu Ай бұрын

It's called a Vocal minority. Roman has barely ever been in the top 10 in merch sales his whole career including his knockoff reign of terror triple h "tribal chief" 💩run.

@agent95_ Ай бұрын

@@noneedtoknow-yv2tu what does absolutely any of that matter when every night the fans are chanting we want Roman. That statement was apples to oranges.

@noneedtoknow-yv2tu 9 күн бұрын

@@agent95_ chants that don't reflect in Roman's merch sales. Even after the Paulie rub and knock off evolution he's only number four on out of 10 on merch sales,it's piped in. The fuck you solo chants I'll give you that's real but I've been to a recent smackdown trust me it's piped in. We want Cody chants was real but not we want Roman chants it's just reality. If you can't see that get your head out of Roman's a$$.

@andrewblanchard2398 Ай бұрын

WWE SCEWED STING

@AnthonyChobotdoespopcult-jz7jr Ай бұрын

Hogan is the king of botching

@kevincrittenden7567 Ай бұрын

You really gotta start fact checking ur stuff, roman did not win back to back rumble. In fact he's only won one rumble.

@e93sports80 Ай бұрын

Roman never won back to back Royal Rumbles.

@ev14304 Ай бұрын

this video was poorly booked

@cliffbot638 Ай бұрын

For Sting I can kinda understand why they did what they did. They tried to get him for years, only for him to go to TNA and then finally sign with the WWE when he's old? I'd be a little miffed myself tbh.

@kidgruesome407 Ай бұрын

he didnt sign because they treated wcw talent like garbage. he waited over a decade so they could get over their hatred of wcw but wwe fucked him over anyway.

@michaelmartinez5217 Ай бұрын

Dude you speak to slow, for me. It freaks me out , don't know why but it do...

@michaelreich4827 Ай бұрын

Putting a women's match as the main event of a WM should be #1.

@zinniaq3020 Ай бұрын

I loved the main event

@Pariahcarey34 Ай бұрын

Wrestlemania 9 was the best ending in Wrestlemania history. The fans loved it when it happened, people still rage about it, and it’s another item on Bret Hart’s list of things to be bitter about. Lord only knows who Bret Hart would be if he didn’t carry his misery around and display it on his sleeve. Still respect the guy, just like I respect the Hulkster, but it’s as true as Hogan looking out for himself (and rightfully so).