10 Promising WWE Storylines That Went Downhill Fast 

Stupid booking

Classic DX in Vince's ear. Owen was red hot in December of 97 and Mania 14 main event probably should've been him vs Shawn instead of Austin which is crazy to think about

@@lachlanbrunton3264i disagree Austin was the right choice overall

Tbh, hoping that the Nexus would succeed under 2010 Vince is thinking that a tree will start swimming with it's branches in lava. And I think Nexus was supposed to lose anyway; Cena simply changed the finish.

I still wonder where they was gonna take that one. Lol

Kane should have won many world championships. They really dropped the ball on him from 2000 onward.

Kane should have won way more but austin...... Then hunter....

I mean at least Kane had a pretty lengthy World title run in 2010 and even beat the Undertaker 3 times in a row! I know that feud isn't universally loved but I personally enjoyed it and I was definitely invested in it

Agree

2001 rumble too but we all know how that went.....

Reinvigorated Psycho Kane should've received a second one-on-one world heavyweight title match against Triple H. Kane wins, avenging his Mask vs Title loss to Triple H in June 2003 on Raw, the Katie Vick storyline(the insanity of that storyline speaks for itself) & the Championship Unification Match loss to Triple H at the 2002 No Mercy PPV(Kane's Intercontinental Title vs Triple H's World Heavyweight Title), which would've put Kane back into the main event spotlight. Instead, Kane wouldn't touch another WWE world title since King Of The Ring 1998 until the first Money In The Bank PPV in 2010, winning the match's briefcase & cashing in on then world champion Rey Mysterio on the same night to win the title, turning heel once again at Rey Mysterio's expense, like he did in Summer 2008 & had an astronomically better & longer title reign than his pathetic 24 hour sole WWE Championship reign.

I mean in retrospect Orton winning the match I have no issue with my issue was why did it need to involve Alexa turning heel and surely after being the unkillable fiend why was he put in a tag team instead of being the number one contender

@@josiahboatengmyrie I agree, we didn't have a chance to see the payoff of Bliss' betrayal (why the heck she did that?), meanwhile Orton became a tag team man made zero sense to me 😂 at least RK-Bro was entertaining

I couldnt be paid to care about any storyline involving a character that basically amounts to "gay mr rogers knockoff that occasionally wears an ugly mask." It was "over" by the standards of the day, but the standards of the day also got us a whole roster full of guys who make Colin Delaney look like Batista AND developmental getting a weekly TV show for some reason, so I shun modern wrestling standards. The shit was NOT over. Sorry, kiddos.

No reason? One of the combatants was a literal clown!

Their rivalry never happened in 2022 it ended in 2021

They definitely should've had a rematch at Mania 23

Vince was high when he created Retribution

The rebellion thing was good, but as soon as they signed their contract, it was bloody awful

It made all the sense in the world. On one hand, you have one of the all-time greats. On the other, you have a literal 🤡.

The fiend character was already on a downward spiral since losing to bill goldberg maybe he shouldn’t have been put over then at least randy is a full time wrestler that has done way more than anyone has for the company

​@@qwilliams1539I know the character was a hillbilly psycho clown, but let's not insult Wyatt like that...

@@urbaindelva7869 So Cesaro's run as a 'Paul Heyman guy' was more doomed to failure then it already was...

I don't know what Vince was thinking putting the WWE Championship on Jinder

@@jordanmccluskey891 to make tony khan have a rant 6 years later long term booking

I guess it was a glimpse as to what would happen if Shawn had went to WCW

Cesaro faced John Cena at that time. However, Cesaro facing Brock Lesnar? Talk about two big, strong, hard hitting dudes battling each other. Sign me up to watch that.

Saved his life too apparently.

TF is "Ebolution"?! 🤔

Yes, a champion and great wrestler. Your point?

The original plan was for Christopher Daniels to be the higher power but that changed to Vince McMahon

Why should a literal clown never lose?

@@qwilliams1539 best gimmick at the time.

We can't understand because they stopped everything after that, we'll never know the plans

For me it was bout 3. So predictable and boring. They need a refresh and know when to end storylines

​@Michael-yi1np sounds like someone was upset LA Knight didnt win

5/10. Nothing special but also not terrible.

Personally Cena, rey, and Shayna should have won but I did enjoy the Seth and Drew match. Best of the night for me.

5-6, maybe. It was just kinda ok.

Do u think Kane would have worked good on the SmackDown! Roster in 2004