Thread 18746814

post the absolute worst of WWE's dark years

Kek what a gimp bitch

>>18746814 (OP)
I didn’t watch- to anons that watched both this era and 2009-2010: what was worse? The latter drove me away from wrestling and my fandom has never fully recovered

This is when Vince started going really senile

>>18746828
2017-2021 is worse. 2019 WWE was so bad it helped launch an immediately successful AEW. Of course AEW screwed it all up, but still. Bray Wyatt put on all time bad matches and angles for years too.

>>18746828
2009-2010 at least still had some star power to carry it. what bothered me the most about that era was the change in production, it felt so sterile and soulless, from the set to the camera angles

>>18746814 (OP)
>worst
>Brains Strowman
gain taste

>>18746828
>I didn’t watch- to anons that watched both this era and 2009-2010: what was worse?
2019 WWE was far worse. Like any point in wrestling it still had a few good things going on but there was so much garbage. Early 2010s though, like 2012, 2013 etc when they started the Raw Supershow shit will always be worse than either of them to me though

>>18746814 (OP)
It doesn't get worse than the dogfood/beans saga between Roman and Corbin/Roode.
Nia Jax slamming Lana through a table for 8 weeks in a row or however long was also noteworthy for just how inexplicably bizarre it was.

I actually thought Brains Strowman was a dimes gimmick

>>18746814 (OP)
Yeah see I know you're a zoomer because you didn't immediately go to the guest house era. Like the worst WWE has had to offer in the past 10 years. Still doesn't equate to how bad it really was during that time frame

>>18747088
>House
Host
Stupid voice to text

>>18746900
I watched that era on occasion because of The Rock’s involvement. It was definitely bad and didn’t fully pull me back in, but I think it was better than 2009-2010, probably 2006-2007 also. 2008 was an underrated year in between a lot of garbage.

the "no wrestling during commercials" period when every tv match was 2/3 falls

>>18747097
Post a vocaroo

>>18747088
>>18747097
Don't talk shit about Todd Pettengill.

>>18747124
Scott and todd in the morning.

>>18747120
No because then I'll just do all of my posts that way and none of you have the attention span to listen or click every vocaroo you see

>>18747124
More like Toad Pedophile

>>18747138
Hey, stop that. I'm warning you.

>>18747112
what the fuck did vince see in him

>>18746814 (OP)
>>18746827
>>18746836
>>18746839
>>18747112
All better than 2025 WWE and I mean it.

>>18746828
2009 at least had relatively sane camera work, 2019 had full retard Kevin Dunn cutting every second even when nothing was actually going on.

>>18747149
Stop being a contrarian retard. No one could actually believe this.

>>18747131
All I see is a ding dong diddly pinhead

Someone post the Roman Reigns Chihuahua mascot

>>18747250
kek reminds me of those early ai generated pics of triple h eating chilli con carne or some shit

>>18746839
What was the /asp/ reaction to this moment?

>>18747250
One of the most viewed wrestling videos on YouTube, by the way.

>>18747275
big dog roman is a draw brother

>>18747259
>Literally whomst?

>>18746814 (OP)
This era was kino

/asp/ > /pw/

>>18747363
I agree, pure Vince dementia kino

Add 2025 to the list.

>>18746839
>LOOK AT HIM PAL
>IT'S YOKOZUNA
>HERE IN THE FLESH
>JUST LIKE HOW YOU WANTED PAL

>>18746836
What was crazy is they had three cuck angles going on at the same time

>>18746840
Vince hasn’t had any power since 2005 outside of the small window where he pushed out HHH and Stephanie, who took power in 2005

>>18747259
>hideo itami really let himself go

>>18747250
>>18747275
There were two feuds where heels got Roman over. This one and Sheamus.

>>18746939
>>18747111
>>18747147
>>18747158
>>18747165
>>18747172
>>18747441
Hey cripple Take the wrestling fig out yo bussy, playa

A few years later but still of the same mentality

2019 was kurt's retirement run :(

>>18747503
one more match
TONIGHT

>>18747454
Is that the "THE LORE OF THE FIEND" review?

Drones be like "WWE is soooo good right now!" but who could trust the opinions of people who sat through shit like this?

>>18747528
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7MVYvp4kPU

>>18747503
He didn't get all of it.

I find that 2020 - 2021 was even more batshit than 2018 - 2019, especially once Covid hit and they stopped giving a fuck.

However I think the main difference is 2018 - 2019 was so bad it was boring while 2020 - 2021 was so bad it was kino, in the same way that The Room is.

Reminding you all of 2020 - 2021:
>Retribution
>Raw Underground
>The Burnt Fiend
>Alexa and Lily
>The Golden Egg
>Austin Theory mega bush
>Poncho Samoa Joe
>NXT 2.0 with 1995 WWF esque gimmicks

>>18746814 (OP)
just let it play out
>>18746827
just let it play out
>>18746836
just let it play out
>>18746839
just let it play out
>>18747234
just let it play out
>>18747241
just let it play out
>>18747250
just let it play out
>>18747499
just let it play out
>>18747503
just let it play out

>>18746814 (OP)
WWE’s dark years are 2024-Now actually

>>18747761
Then why does everyone keep going to the shows? During the actual dark years, they were getting 5k for their weekly shows and the crowd would be dead unless Orton was there. I remember there was a meme for a while that orton was the only over guy on the show. Now they have like 20-30 wrestlers who are over as fuck.

>Awwww you dont like how we book things? What are you gonna do, complain online?
>If they do things we dont like, me and my friend Mark are gonna stop watching!

Remember obese untrainable unemployable etard boomers want Vince back because of "Muh childhood, muh attitude era".
They are to be mocked and cyberbullied at every opportunity.

>>18747894
>NOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE COME BACK PLEASE START TUNING IN
>WE'RE SO SORRY ABOUT THAT PROMO
>WE WERE WRONG JUST PLEASE START WATCHING AGAIN
>YOU'RE THE AUTHORITY NOW
>WE'RE LISTENING TO WHAT YOU WANT

>>18747886
based randal

>>18747626
Did Nikki A.S.H start during covid or after? Because that was shocking

>>18747894
>NOOOOOOOOOOO PLEASE COME BACK PLEASE START TUNING IN
>WE'RE SO SORRY ABOUT THAT PROMO
>WE WERE WRONG JUST PLEASE START WATCHING AGAIN
>YOU'RE THE AUTHORITY NOW
>WE'RE LISTENING TO WHAT YOU WANT

>>18747911
Just looked it up, June 2021 to October 2022.

>>18747913
Corbin was the problem

>>18747923
Yeah their "big change" was just stop using Corbin as the GM and everything else was the same.

>>18747913
The Raw threads for that show were fucking hilarious. Possibly the most fun I've ever had on /asp/.

>>18747937
Absolute humiliation for Trips he was so smug during that My Friend Mark promo too

Braun Strowman was one of the only good things from this era fym

>>18747097
ayo this nigga talkin to his 4chan lmfao :skull:

>>18747503
>the only people who managed to carry Angle to a decent match in his retirement run were AJ and Corbin

>>18747495
If only Sheamus was young again so we could get a MONSTER HEEL Sheamus run
idk who could use the push from working with such a GREAT HEEL though

>>18748018
QRD? Brock didn't want to work with Jinder?

>>18748314
>Survivor Series had a Raw vs Smackdown gimmick
>Champions vs Champions through the whole card
>This was the main event
>Was fully set and advertised
>Brock refused to work with Jinder
>Wants to work with AJ
>They have AJ suddenly win the title from Jinder on a random smackdown like 2 weeks before Survivor Series

>>18746839
WTF! I thought Yokozuna died

>>18747112
If you don't get the meaning behind this webm lurk moar

Not one bad thing has been posted yet

>>18748525
Racist fed through and through.

>>18746827
dis nigga truly never recovered this.
and he deserved it, imho

>>18748525
Looking back, based Brock was right yet about a guy yet again.
Shinder was an anti draw even in jeetland. They realized very quickly and put the belt on AJ and Jinder's push was over.

>>18748525
it was never advertised and no proof brock refused

>>18746839
Apparently this dude was some friend of Nakamura and a shoot sumo wrestler (but not Yokozuna rank) who got him a sweet payday outta this. based good brother Shinsuke. gettin the homie paid.

>>18748152
blud fully, shoot delulu frfr

>>18748018
>>18748525
Speaking of Kino that we never had

>he didn't pop for BRAINS Strowman
but that was some good shit pal, that was some GOOD good shit right there

>>18748018
Brock refused to work this match. Straight up told em No. Chamge the belt. Not sure if he/Heyman pushed for AJ specifically to be the guy but I can see Brock wanting that match.

>>18748753
He didn't die pal! See I got him for you just like you asked, now gimme the money pal.

>>18746839
This match was Chris Jericho's last appearance in WWE. Also the rumble when Titus slipped under the ring

>>18748861
So utterly dimeless it actually circles round to being interesting

Speaking of Brock politicking, you now remember the mass seethe from this.

>>18747112
>waistcoat over a dress shirt
Why is this his ring gear? Was his gimmick a bartender?

I remember Raw in 2018 being Bobby Roode and Finn Balor every fucking episode, Braun Strowman carrying the show. Ziggler trying to get Drew McIntyre over.

>>18748861
Vince's dementia booking was awesome

For me it was Mysterio drama.

>>18748884
I get why they cancelled it in that it was a complete booking nightmare because how do you navigate The Fiend who is being booked like an actual supernatural monster who can take multiple curb stomps onto a tool box and just get up like it's nothing vs Brock Lesnar who wants to be booked strong too and will use creative pull if he has to do Fiend shenanigans and then how do you make Adam Cole look like he even stands a chance against these two and not completely bury NXT

>>18748779
and yes I posted this unironically and looked at each example individually

>>18748867
They really pushed Jinder for almost all the year too. Brought back the Punjabi Prison and everything, wouldn't unrelent and all it took was Brock to go "Doesn't work for me"

>>18748886
he was the raw gm at this point I think. vince made him wear a shirt when he wrestled because of his sad-looking stomach

>>18748886
His gimmick was Constable Corbin, the GM of the show. And I believe he was GM of both shows too. A Raw where he appeared in nearly every segment of the show was one of the lowest rated shows in years.

>>18748861
Speaking of Kino that we never had

>>18746836
you have to assume at some point that Rusev was just into getting cucked with how many storylines he got about the subject matter

>What should his heel gimmick be?
>Uhhh I dunno, he punches people in the dick

>>18748968
Pumpkin Boy vs Granny Shitfingers

>>18747112
I thought he was cool when first came up, but I stopped watching not long after. What happened to him?

>>18748980
Or Heyman was
>Heyman starts booking Raw
>Rusev cuck angle and Mike Bennett cuck angle at the same time

>>18748996
He had a few gimmicks during his run. Usually something to do with calling him [Blank] Corbin like King Corbin, Happy Corbin, etc.

>>18748996
A lot of being pushed and buried. Just constant start/stops
>Gets called up to Smackdown
>Does his Lone Wolf gimmick for a while, mostly floats around the midcard doing US title stuff
>Wins Money in the Bank
>Failed cash in
>Gets drafted to Raw
>Becomes heel GM of Raw and is renamed to "Constable Corbin" where he's also still an active wrestler and so he essentially books himself to win
>Raw ratings giga plummet
>Worst rated segments are the Corbin ones
>Vince panics
>>>18747913 happens
>They strip Corbin of his GM status
>Claim they're gonna use Corbin a lot less now on TV and he reverts back to Baron Corbin
>They still end up using him lots
>Angle is now GM
>Starts feuding with Kurt
>He literally retires Kurt at Wrestlemania in dominant fashion too
>Wins King of the Ring
>Switches his name to "King Corbin"
>Typical King of the Ring King Gimmick
>Nakamura wins the next King of the Ring
>Switches to "King Nakamura"
>Corbin feuds with him in a battle for the crown match
>Loses
>Switches his gimmick to a sad disheveled begger and is renamed to "Sad Corbin"
>Claims his wife left him and he's swallowing in debt
>Has that gimmick for a while, losing streak etc.
>During a Smackdown in Vegas he has a segment where he wins big money
>Ends up becoming Happy Corbin, a Rich Gambler Gimmick with his prankster sidekick Madcap Moss where they laugh a lot
>After a while Vince gets bored of that and Corbin stops being used
>Returns as Baron Corbin again like a year later, with JBL as his manager and his new nickname is the "New Wrestling God"
>Lasts really short
>Corbin ends up demoted to NXT again, starts doing the Lone Wolf gimmick and goes back to his old theme
>Turns Face for the first time in years
>Teams with Bron for a bit
>Bron gets called up
>Switches his gimmick to a Biker Gimmick
>Discussions to call him up again
>Gets released instead

>>18748990
Didn't one of their matches end in a double low blow

>>18748996
they actually used him well as a chickenshit heel
you posted an image of his best gimmick

>>18749272
Yup, and it was a PPV finish IIRC

>>18748996
>>18749226
Also his main roster theme was great
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTAiObI_U2Y

But it was cool to see this theme return when he went back to NXT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFyxa2l5onU

>>18748861
brock obviously had something against bray, they teased a feud a few times but it never happened. even the cancelled feud before he died it could've been brock but it was bobbo

>>18749315
He probably just didn't want to do any spooky shit and act like he is getting attacked by ghosts or whatever

>>18749315
>>18749353
The two of them seem like a bit of a personality clash too, Brock probably saw Bray as an out of shape geek who cared more about trying to create some gay story than a legit tough guy

>>18747626
Thunderdome era WWE was truly Lynchian.

>>18749298
Lmao yeah I think that's the Backlash logo. Kind of why I miss Vince because he'd book aggressively retarded shit that was funny. Haitch is just boring unless The Rock fucks up his plans

>>18749353
Speaking of having to sell spooky shit, this era was also when this match happened.

>>18749410
Oh yeah it was absolutely at backlash I mean it was the actual finish to the match, it was counted as a draw/double TKO

>>18749298
>>18749410
Nah that PPV closed with a random Joe vs. Roman match, it was the peak of main event Roman fatigue

>>18749410
With Vince's bad booking you could at least have a laugh with it, like pic related. With Haitch's bad booking, it's just boring.

I don't even think this was Ambrose's worst gimmick. It was probably his post Shield Pre-This gimmick one where he was coined as "Wacky" and the "Lunatic Fringe" and he'd carry around a plant pot as it was SOOoOoO Wacky and had his own Ambrose Aslyum match and his finisher was the Wackyline.

>>18747913
What were the marks crying about when this happened?

>>18749459
I dont think anything specific the ratings were just shit

>>18749446
>>18749410
All of the bizarre finishes from late 2010s WWE is all coming flooding back to me.

>>18749459
There was nothing specific the show was just bad. Corbin was dimeless, they were still trying to get Main Event Babyface Roman over with a John Cena-Esque Overcomes the Odds style babyface gimmick, Steph and Trips were all over TV burying the talent, Lesnar would win the title in a half assed match then fuck off for like three months so there was no world title around.

So Triple H did this promo along the lines of "Ohhh I don't like it, I'm gonna complain on the internet then me and my friend Mark are gonna stop watching! See you next week." Except it actually gave people a clue and they started switching off. Causing them to initiate panic mode and do that pathetic begging promo.

One of the highlights of this era

>>18749551
youre mixing up the two promos. the me and my friend mark promo was in 2014 when people still wanted bryan to win every match for some reason

>>18749585
the my friend mark promo was about cena retaining the title on a ppv after bryan had already relinquished it

>>18749585
Oh yeah I meant it happened over a long period. Around 2013 - 2018 was the slow sapping of the ratings as more and more people tuned out. Basically when the Authority was a thing.

When they rebranded Raw with a new logo and changed the commentary team and it lasted like three months or so. I think it was due to the "We're sorry, big changes are gonna come, we'll listen to you now" promo

>>18749647
Though actually thinking on it now this may have been much later, and the "we're sorry" promo lead to a completely different commentary change and new logo. Thats usually their go to for making big changes

>>18749615
Fuck that reminds me
>authority is supposed to disband
>come back like two months later or some shit
>gave Dolph what was supposed to be Roman's spot
>he goes back to the midcard despite the super face push in the match
Why the fuck did I keep watching I didn't tap out until Mania 32

>>18749647
that was way later and im pretty sure that was right before covid

>>18749647
BECAUSE THIS IS AN ABSOLUTELY KINO PICK

>>18749647
>commetator dio until vince saw him stand next to brock

>>18749696
I'd forgotten about that
>Lets do a Brock beats up the commentators bit
>Dio completely mogs him
>Is pulled off commentary
>Gets thrown onto NXT as a wrestler ASAP

>>18749667
Wasn't even two months later, it was literally the next night

>>18749667
>>18749667
I still maintain that the Authority Era of 2013 - 2018 was the worst Era of WWE even worst than now, even worse than Covid. Cause at least schizo Vince booking from 2019 - 2021 was funny to watch.

Nobody even properly beat the Authority for them to disband, they just quietly disbanded because they realized they were ratings cancer.

The only exception was 2016 Smackdown when the draft first started which was pretty good.

>>18748861
This match would have only been acceptable if Brock utterly squashed the other two especially Atom

>>18749298
This was kino albeit

>>18749781
That shit was unwatchable. Covid came at the perfect time. They fully gave up by 2018/19 and just decided to push a bunch of smark favorites, nxt shitters, britbongers and women.
if Roman never turned heel WWE would be fucked right now.

You now remember when they shaved Elias and tried to repackage him as a generic babyface

>>18749917
No they never that was just his brother

>>18749917
>You now remember when they shaved Elias and tried to repackage him as a generic babyface
Dumbest shit I've ever read. Ezekiel was Elias' younger brother.

Surprised noone posted the pic with all those goofy faces and masks yet, that guy's always in these threads early

SAAR I AM COMING SAAAAAAR
Remember when the entire internet didn't hate jeets? I always hated them but it's funny how much EVERYONE can't stand them now

>>18750116
Now that was actually good

>>18750267
funniest part is that they did it to themselves, really
if almost a quarter of the entire world's population weren't Indians and Chinese, they'd probably be hated on a lot less

>>18749917
Damn Zeke I wish you were still with us,I sure would love to hear you speak again my brother love u miss u HH

>>18747637
kek. once I didn’t have cable for like a week because I moved I realized that I didn’t have to let any of these things play out and I could just stop watching

>>18749917
some dudes should just never shave

>>18747886
Notice how you said nothing about the actual qualities of the shows- I rest my case

Why isn’t there any threads reminiscing on the best of WWE 2024-Now? Again: I rest my case- normie opinions don’t move me

>>18748980
I always thought it was Vince's years-long seething over Rusev and Lana announcing their shoot marriage in the middle of their first breakup storyline

>>18750267
Did he ever make his debut?

>>18750267
I always thought the "designated shitting streets" thing was funny but I didn't truly hate them until they singlehandedly ruined Canada. You can't not despise the people who turned your homeland into a third-world shithole overnight

>>18746828
17-19 was actually unwatchable.

>don’t do it Colby think of your family
>don’t hit this supernatural character with a small hammer after you already hit him with a big hammer in this hell in a cell match with shitty lighting
>oh you hit him! you’re dq’d pal doesn’t matter that the guy you hit got up and no sold the stretchjob

>>18751081
It wasnt DQ it was ref stoppage because bray wasnt moving for like 5 minutes straight. Smarks are just stupid

>>18750854
Yeah. He sucked. Then he disappeared again, tagged with another jeet for a short while and then they got fired.

>>18751098
They never said it was a ref stoppage. Iirc the ref stopped the match right after the hammer shot. I don’t remember who it was on the wwe watch along (booker t? x pac?) who completely burried that shitty finish

>>18751227
X-Pac during the watchalong and they never invited him back.

>>18751245
KWAB

>>18750854
It was the kizarny run where he showed up once, then dissappeared right after

205 live was based until Enzo got fired. Then Buddy was okay but it was never the same. Also Austin Aries honestly lasted longer than I thought he would there

>>18751227
>>18751245
https://youtu.be/bOov_WJrFk8?t=11594
starting with the laughing when he brings out triple h's sledgehammer

>>18747250
I wonder if this was a rib on Vince

>>18749457
This. If you can't be good just suck really bad so it's funny. That's why I always liked TNA back in the day and still watch AEW once in a while since I can at least laugh at some of the dumb shit they do. Honestly can't stand TKO WWE wish Vince kept running it until he was dead.

>>18747626
reminder that WWE was originally just doing reruns and only started doing no crowd shows because AEW kept up live dynamite at daly's place.

>>18749917
Vince may have done a lot of dumb shit especially in recent years but Ezekiel was genuinely one of the best gimmicks in recent years.

>>18750116
I liked ecofascist Bryan and Rowan's patrician metal taste

I don't know if I scrolled past it or not, but Bobby Lashley's sisters is an all time stinker.
Hi Max, how you doin'?

>>18752119
Oh, and on that note, whatever the fuck this was.

>>18752069
I don't think that's true. I vividly remember triple h doing commentary on matches right at the start of covid

>>18752135
He should have made that part of his gimmick.

>>18748885
Nobody expected Kofi to win, but we were expecting a good match like what Brock had shown us previously against Daniel Bryan & AJ Styles. Kofi got squashed. Then they made it worse by having Kofi immediately be his happy New Day self again and act like he was never the world champion to begin with. They could have put the belt on Brock without any of the backlash, instead, they handled everything in the worst way possible.

I probably got the years wrong but this dude flopped so hard lmao

>>18750763
Oh it absolutely was. Same thing happened with Lita. Vince is a PETTY bitch.

>>18752141
I vividly remember raw reruns for one, possibly two weeks. dynamite never stopped being live. I think Vince was betting on them doing the same thing and when they didn't he got spooked

>>18749667
Ziggler kept managing to get himself mega-over and they buried him every time for it. MitB cash-in, this, and then the career vs. title match against the Miz. Any one of those times was a great moment to push Dolph and instead, they made sure to bury him every time. Such a fucking waste.

>>18752236
oh yeah, but it's very much in the 18-19 spirit of "big fanfare to total disappearance". like how sanity got a big debut segment on smackdown and then didn't appear on TV at all for months

>>18752282
you're only allowed to grab the brass ring when they hand it to you

>>18748922
Drew got over with me after Braun turned on Ziggler and then Drew Claymore'd him out of nowhere. The camera angle and his face after was perfect. The only thing I can remember popping me during that entire period
https://youtu.be/J3SOGWpv1jE?si=kEzECmQAz1XUcvzf&t=135

>>18751804
Never seen this or even knew it happened. X-Pac is eternally based

>>18752282
Yeah I don't think Dolph could've been FOTC or anything but he definitely got to upper midcard to occasional main eventer levels over. That SS match was so annoying cause even with Sting it looked like he was finally moving up the card

>>18752236
I wonder what happened? Kurt and Gable took to wrestling like a duck to water. Seems odd that he'd be the shits.

>>18751804
This dude was such a good shill

>>18747112
Literal curtained off PPV. KWAB

>>18748525
why did brock want to work with AJ. i cannot imagine brock wanting to put on a bangerino so long as he gets paid. i'm frankly surprised he even cared enough to have an opinion about not wanting to work with jinder.

>>18752378
I remember thinking that Dolph completely stole the show. Sting seemed like a secondary point to me, which is likely precisely why they got pissed at Dolph. After that amazing performance, they made sure to have Dolph get immediately eliminated in the Royal Rumble and tossed out like trash. It was clearly a punishment.
Then he has the banger feud against Miz and their amazing match. The crowd was so hype for that. People had heard the rumors that Dolph might be leaving wrestling to do other things, so people genuinely didn't know if Dolph would win or not. At the start of the match, half the crowd was smarking it up and cheering against Ziggler. By the end, everyone was on their feet and screaming for Ziggler's incredibly emotional win. This was also a huge elevation for the Intercontinental Title. For the first time in a long time, it felt truly important again. So what was the followup?
It seemed promising as Dolph had a match against Curt Hawkins in which he squashed him for a quick win. Nothing major, but it was a good sign of things to come. After that there was a rematch with The Miz in which The Miz won by kicking Dolph in the balls. Such a fucking letdown.

>>18752282
Ziggler won the world heavyweight championship and was always a staple of the show during his prime what more did you guys want exactly?

>>18752119
when was the old day segment? Because these 2 are legit probably the worst segments in WWE history. In this one, there were ways for Sami to make it "so bad it's actually good" but no, this was just bad bad.

>>18749226
>>Discussions to call him up again
>>Gets released instead
corbin was back on the main roster when he was released. he was teaming with apollo but they only ever got brought out for stupid shit and to job.

>>18752388
IIRC he wasn't really sure if he wanted to do more amateur wrestling, WWE, or MMA. So he half-assed training because his heart wasn't in it. Even if he tried I think he was a charisma vacuum though.

This thread is great I forgot half this dumbshit.

>>18752388
He was DOA after that sexual assault charge.
Supposedly he was also a major pain in the ass in his training sessions, which is even worse because he wasn't even working with the PC coaches, they gave him one of the old timers that only get used when they absolutely "don't want this guy to fuck up". I can't remember which one they had overseeing him (Think it might've been Brisco but don't quote me on that) and whoever they trust to work with him but he just didn't give a shit.

>>18752442
Yeah I agree. He really should've tried to pull a Cody before Cody did. Probably wouldn't have been as successful but a TNA or New Japan run earlier could've had a spot for him further up the card when he came back
>>18752447
I think he could've been at AJ's level for a while. Not a consistent main eventer but at least a credible threat to them, with a brief WWE title run. But the last time I remember him challenging for the top belt was against Dean where the feud was "you always choke" and Dean was right because they kept him in the midcard too long

>>18752460
That's a 2016 one. I think Bayley's "This is Your Life" dud happened around then too, maybe a year later.
>>18752438
Brock is legitimately professional enough to work and make guys look good if he knows he make them look good. He worked his ass off for Finn, AJ, Rollins probably a few more that I'm forgetting. He only buries you if he sees absolutely no value in it (Jinder) or if you bring him retarded ideas that he knows won't make him look good (Dean).

>>18752442
dolph should have left the company in 2015 after they didn't get behind him despite mass fan support.
if you go back and watch the 2015 rumble, there are maybe 5 wrestlers that didn't get booed for not being daniel bryan. it was like, wade, dean, mizdow and dolph, and probably at least one other i can't recall.
that was both the correct time for the WWE to go all in on him, and for big zig to leave and build a name for himself outside of WWE if they didn't. instead they both fumbled.
he asked for his release in 2023 but it was way too late then.

Remember this shit? Also in hindsight I'm kinda surprised Tiny didn't hire her when AEW started. I can't remember if she sucked or not but their women's division was grim for a while

>>18748938
I'd actually have Cole pin Lesnar. I have no idea how we get there but it would be hilarious. If Brock was shot dead in the ring I think his corpse could still kill Cole, that's how bad of a mismatch this is. It would probably kill the fiend character and Cole's push at the same time. So win-win.

>morrison's big return reveal was stopping her from asking the miz a question
eternal jannetty

>>18752681
She had a little bit of run in Impact before she had her short stint in WWE, she was completely washed.

>>18752681
>>18752877
Isn't she also one of those that takes a lot of "trips" to Saudi or whatever sand country they shit on women in?

>>18748885
This was kino

>>18752200
Yeah I didn't like Kofi's run (especially since Bryan's eco terrorist gimmick was dimes), but they basically buried him and all the people he beat. It was funny but in the what the fuck sort of way lmao

>>18752236
He had those allegations come out and then I think they probably trained him wrong on purpose so that he would flop and they could just get rid of him.

>>18749307
'I Bring the Darkness' was the last theme Jim Johnston did. Of course, it was kino.

>>18747112
Go this guy was insufferable

>>18752438
AJ is that good. Also if you look at the match it enhanced Bork Laser's monster image.

>>18752549
You forgot Bryan. And people always forget that Brock actually does care about putting on an entertaining match which is why he liked working with those guys. Everyone assumes he's just a money and miles guy, but that's not entirely accurate. WM34 he threw the belt at Vince because the crowd shit all over him and Roman and he was pissed.

>>18750116
This run and belt was kino. His match vs Lesnar was well executed and his coming out as Kofi's last opponent during the gauntlet match to be a Number 1 Contender popped me and was a classic Vince is Evil moment

>>18752681
>>18752877
Her skin conditioned noticeably worsened during her second stint that made being a full-time wrestler a bad idea

>>18752438
Brock has no issue working with smaller guys if they can go in the ring like AJ or Bryan

>>18747913
Didn't the crowd actually cheer them for this?

>>18748990
But enough about Cena

>>18751098
Officially it’s a no contest

at least it had SOVL

>>18747463
so it was perfectly indicative of the times

>>18747112
Corbin and Evans completely mogged Becksethetty in this feud though

Pretty sure the Hackerman WWE 2K stuff that frontran the covid hoax was a form of predictive programming. Vince probably got advance warning that the financial system was about to run out of money via Linda's position within the Trump hierarchy. WWE had to run a cover-up per the favors given to the family.

Economically restrictive measures for alleged "health" crises. Buncha bullshit.

>>18746839
Based fatass burying jeribore under his fupa

>>18748885
Most memorable part of Kofi's run. The camera panning to Goldberg and Mark Henry's reactions in the crowd was fucking beautiful. You just know Vinny Mac told Dunn to make sure to catch Henry's agape mouth

A large mallet is okay, but a small mallet isn't.

>>18751512
Yeah you'd think Austin Aries would have instantly walked out when he got demoted to 205

They tried their absolute hardest with her multiple times. Turning her face, turning her heel, using her military background as a gimmick, giving her a southern belle gimmick, having her just randomly walk onto the stage and walk off every thing, pairing her with Ric Flair, at one point she was on both Raw and Smackdown at the same time but she was a face on Smackdown and a Heel on Raw????

Then after she's released she has multiple interviews with CVV, a bunch of podcasters etc. where she straight up says she has no passion for wrestling, just saw it as a way to get good money, to get on TV, and didn't care about working harder and won't wrestle again. And the reason she wasn't that good in the ring is because she didn't care enough to try to improve. That was apparently enough to make Vince go "OH, NEXT TOP FEMALE STAR"

But eh, once Vince sets his eye on something, it's set.

>>18754142
Yeah they bought into their bullshit.

>>18752438
Brock wants to look good and he likes entertaining people. I think a lot of you get worked by stuff you see online. Brock may prefer part time but he almost always delivered when it was time.

Drake Maverick having a peeing himself/peeing on other people's clothes gimmick. Possibly the purest Vince creation in WWE history.

>>18747112
The way he looks at those tarps like a man staring into the abyss always haunts me

>>18748885
This was based. Was watching with a group of friends and we all popped huge. Kofi and Jasethy had mega go away heat with us in 2019.

>>18755287
Didn't he thank Roman for the house at one point?

>>18754276
made me remember randy's night vision goggles attack

>>18751804
whose that tiny cutie on the end

>>18747112
this nigga must've been the most featured guy on the roster during this time
he had the most speaking time of anyone, multiple segments on every show and involved in bunch of storylines at the same time
I dont think anyone ever was treated this way except for Triple H in 2004-2010 and Vince during AE
fucking insane, hes not even a good talker

>>18755412
It’s easy to see why- he was super malleable and could slot into any role and got massive heat- everyone who worked with him got more over- not really that insane- we’re still talking about him to this day so it worked

King Corbin was fun

>>18749298
>the ref looking back out to gorrilla like 'what the fuck is this shit' hahahah

>>18755215
>blonde slut
>vince likes her
>pushes her to the moon
many such cases

>>18746939
>dogfood/beans saga between Roman and Corbin/Roode
It lasted like 5 months as well, I have no idea what they were thinking

>>18747147
The rumor was that he thought women found him attractive. Like he's not a bad looking dude and he pulls off the bald look well but he's not an Adonis

>>18748980
Imagine being a dimeless shitter like Rusev and needing to keep your job then your boss is an insane cuck fetish scat fetish human trafficker who makes you do this or you go back to the bingo halls

I miss the Raw guest host era during PG. Top level cringecore content

>>18755671
I mean that Vince thought women found him attractive

>>18755671
Wasn't that a joke?

>>18755586
She also had the added Vince bonus of having served in the military, which doubled Vinces boner as he could use her for patriotic stuff.

>>18748996
The usual.
They pushed him as a monster heel ex-footballer.
Then they wanted to see if he could be funny.
He can be funny, but funny and monster heel ex-footballer don't blend.
It buried his character, and the back and forth booking kept him buried.
One of those guys where if you just let him work his ideas instead of those of the office, he'd be fine.
Vince liked him plenty enough. Corbin must've done a lot of backtalk, which the old man wants to see and respects as long as you do business at the end of the day. It's something most of creative can't stand.

>>18746814 (OP)
2018 - 2019 was the most fun and that was when I was watching. I stopped watching during covid. The trolling was fun during those times, wolfchad, deanmark, kwabposting, deaddy threads, jannety, bitchtits, ding dong-diddly, etc.

>>18756066
also
>best attitude era episode by Vince, Uso watching the dudes shave each other's back. pissing on the costume segment
>Roman before the fale cancer announcement

Jinder Mahal was the last true champion.

All of these are kino, I tried watching again after covid was over but their video packages were terrible during WrestleMania, I'm not watching week to week of filler.

>>18755412
>>18755492
Then every segment he was in, the views would plummet, then when he wasn't in one the views would spike up. Viewers were actively tuning out and in depending on if the Corbin segment was done. Then there was a Raw where he was in almost every segment and it was their lowest rated Raw in years.

>>18755671
I know that was his reason for pushing Austin Theory or as he renamed him "Theory". He thought Theory was very handsome and that all the women would be attracted to him and all the men would be jealous of him and he'd be the next Shawn Michaels style of handsome heel.

They gave him a match with John Cena at Mania so that John Cena would give him the rub and the thumbs up and then when working with him Cena gave him the thumbs down and eviscerated him in promos to the point Theory just ended up looking worse even though he won against Cena at Mania, the damage was done by Cena's promos. A lot of them were unscripted so Theory had no idea what to do and it was just Cena drumming in the point that Theory is not the guy. Then after the match with Cena, Cena gave him a further thumbs down hence why they cooled down on him for a bit after that win. But then a few months later Vince was all "OHHH THEORY!!! again"

I always find it funny that the transition between Vince and Triple H happened when Theory held the MITB, and Paul was like "Nahhhh no way you're holding a world title" and just had Theory cash in on the US title.

>>18755679
>>18748980
This angle is retroactively even funnier once it was revealed Vince has a dildo collection named after black wrestlers and has a major blacked fetish.

>>18756292
>Theory just ended up looking worse even though he won against Cena at Mania
to be fair they didn't even give him a good win, he basically lost the match first

>>18749457
Everything you just wrote was over with me, brother. I remember all that stuff.

>>18748779
>>18748941
the most ironic posts in the thread bar none

>>18756138
Ehhh, the live crowd was eating his schtick up for the most part and there’s proof of that- ratings are a decaying metric only used by boomers and I hate to throw that term around loosely but yeah- Corbin was a good hand nothing more nothing less

interesting

>>18755327
Solid Snek

>>18749962
The redpill is LA knight was zeke

>>18756458
Iconic*

>>18757561
This image just threw me back, that match would've been so funny to watch