The end of CM Punk's title reign was very anti-climatic. Losing the title to a returning part timer and not even given the spot to fight for it at Mania... all to have Cena vs Rock II... that Once in a Lifetime that happened Twice!
Because even though they had rikishi say he did it. Which he did. They thought that he he would be a good heel. So they had triple h be the mastermind behind it all. So maybe it was because having triple h being the mastermind is what made it a good story.
The biggest anti-climax was the end of the blue meanie/jbl rivalry. Its little known but at ECW One Night Stand 2005 JBL attacked the Blue Meanie for real.
considering it was likely not supposed to end the way it did and lesnar most likely got too carried away i have to totally agree it could of gone so much better.
When rey mysterio won his wwe title and lost it the same night to JOHN CENA I thought rey would finally get a good title run but no John cena has to ruin everything
The Streak being broken was the most, and maybe the only, legitimately shocking moment in wrestling since I started watching as a kid. If anything it's the EXACT opposite of everything else in this video... We took it for granted the Streak would never end, the audience wasn't expecting anything exciting, and we got something that blew our minds.
There's still some speculation that Lesnar straight up TOOK that win from Undertaker, taking advantage of the "accidental" concussion. Heyman even hints towards this in interviews/public appearances.
Lesnar vs Ambrose at mania this year. it was advertised as one of the main events but it goes on so early and instead of the "grueling brawl" we were promised, Dean just got his ass kicked! my words after the match were "what the fuck was that?"
Kevin Nash In short, he lacks in about every aspect of wrestling enough to stop him from being good. But not enough to make him bad. He's just meh. He's always been meh.
its funny because whatculture always talks about how the crowd didnt like sheamus vs. daniel bryan lasting 18 seconds, but if you watch it, the crowd was going nuts.
I used to love telling fans who hadn't seen the Corporate Ministry angle to watch the payoff with the higher power being revealed. Reactions were always hilarious except 1 mate who actually guessed it would be Vince & his argument was "It seems like something he would do"
I was just about to say that. Seriously, WWE built up for a year who had hit Austin, then it's not only revealed to be Rikishi, but he has no cogent reason why he did it. Little wonder it was changed to him just being a pawn for Triple H.
Luton's airport alone makes it the worst place in the modern world, I don't care how many gang shootings there are in Detroit, I would take that over having to deal with the torture of going through Luton Airport just to get on a shit EasyJet flight.
I really liked Fake Diesel and Razor thing. Especially the part when Monsoon, Lawler and Kelly kept talking that they are not the real guys and heel JR was like "Oh fuck it, we own the copyright".
Lesner vs Goldberg at Wrestlemania 20. It could have been Epic but instead we got a match (in name only) that neither man cared about since they were both leaving the company the next day
The reason for The Undertaker's loss against Lesnar were anti-climatic was that it was against a part timer... If it was against some young and upcoming star then this one thing would pretty much be enough the push the lad's career to new hights for a good long period
Aces and Eights left me un satisfied. Bully Ray getting caught up in himself is what killed me though. He basically kicked everyone out, ended aces and eight and they just need MR.Anderson to win a stipulated match to finalize it. I loved everything about Aces and Eights but they had a major downfall and the story was ruined
Dan Matha's debut. Every single return that's announced rather than being a surprise. Apollo Crews on the main roster. Brock vs Orton at summerslam. Goldberg's return, again should have been a surprise
Adam's how-wwe-should-have-booked-the-higher-power idea was amazing. Its a real shame WWF/E didnt do something along those lines. I thought the fake diesel/ramon angle was kinda cool. It was a direct warning shot to WcW
After Undertaker kicked out of Sweet Chin Music + Pedigree combo,i was sure the streak would never end,and Undertaker would just retire after a few more matches.
The Anonymous Raw GM might have been anti-climatic, but it sure was entertaining to watch Edge meltdown and destroy the laptop while said laptop pleads for him not to.
NAH, TAKER LOOSING HIS STREAK WAS JUST PERFECT. like triple H said : kayfabe is dead. Now with defeating the streak, and busting Orton open which was a WORK btw, brings real life heat to brock lesnar. Which is perfect. Blurring the lines between real and kayfabe is thew new way to make people watch. Just like the Miz and Daniel Bryan promo.
Um, Not entirely sure exactly what you have been watching, but Lesnar started getting cheered after he beat the streak. If they let him do that just so he could get some heat, then it failed spectacularly.
Your reaction, is what the WWE need. You have real life anger against Brock Lesnar. Brock lesnar is a certified Heel. Plus not many can match his in ring skills. Even Kurt Angle said it, right now he is throwing 20 suplexes a match and makes it boring because HE IS A HEEL. He is a UFC and NCAA champion, brock knows more moves than 80% of the locker room. Don't play yourself.
His gimmick is " a shoot wrestler who don't give a fuck". Sets up perfectly a match with samoa joe or a returning Kurt Angle. Or even better, throw him in a feud with anyone ( say a Shinsuke or Sami zayn) and you can guarantee that whoever goes against Brock will get cheered a lot.
+Kakuta54 being a heel isn't an excuse to have boring matches, all in all we watch wrestling to be entrained, and recently Lesnar hasn't been entertaining. Knowing moves isn't the same as doing them all we're getting is suplexes. WWE don't need real life heat, kayfabe died a long time ago and the fans accept it. No one misses it really so no, I don't want to see Brock Lesnar cut open Randy Orton's head with his elbow and leave him bleeding really badly because "he's a heel", that's not entertaining, it's worrying, it's dangerous and it's completely unnecessary.
Regarding the Higher Power storyline, it would've made more sense to have the Higher Power be the Million Dollar Man. The story behind it being that the Million Dollar Man wanted to take over the WWF and get revenge on Austin for throwing his match with Savio Vega three years earlier so he'd be free of the Million Dollar Man as his manager as he said that he'd leave the WWF if Austin lost his match with Savio Vega.
Or Bret Hart. I know he would never return to WWF but you got to consider the Montreal Screwjob. Not to mention Bret had history with Stone Cold in the past. What also made more sense was that it should've been Jake "The Snake" Roberts like Adam pointed out in his How WWE Should've Booked videos.
Zoukon101 The problem is, Jake wasn't mentally stable enough at the time to be relied upon to be the higher power. It would've been cool of course but reality always ruins good ideas for storylines.....
I went to uni there. It was always very grey. Every time I'd get off the train or walk out the mall the sky would be grey and I'd think it was about to rain.
The worst part of The Streak ending, was that Undertaker was built so strong, always getting the better of Lesnar leading up to the match. Lesnar didn't get any damage on Taker in the promos until the Monday before Raw.
Its because Detroit is the butt of many crap places to live jokes over here Simon, that and its infamously known for high crime and the setting for Robocop
It was also the setting for the Justice League of Detroit line up . . . I'm going to shut up now as I just remembered that was the Dork Age for Justice League.
Here's a good one that's also painful to think about...William Regal getting suspended right in the middle of a massive push. He was the GM of Raw and had just won the King of the Ring tournament.
From what I heard, Undertaker was battling some sort of Cancer during WrestleMania 30. That's why he looked so frail and brittle. I think 6 hours before the show started Vince told Taker "How many years ya got left in ya?" And Taker said "Not Much" so the decision was changed because they figured it'd be his last match. Until Taker beat his Cancer and returned to Wrestling looking more Healthy.
+LEGENDARY IceMan it's a split personality really, sometimes he's idiotic goofball and sometimes he's and intense cool guy you can get behind its creative being inconsistent really
There's a bunch of more anti climaxes. Goldberg vs Brock. Ambrose vs Brock.The Unveiling of the Universal Championship. Jericho vs Triple H at Wrestlemania X8. Miz vs Cena at Wrestlemania 27. The Nexus. Royal Rumble 2014 and 2015. Many many more.
What about the time when Vince supposedly died in a car blast. They even made a fake obituary on the show, even though the fans saw right through it. It was entirely nixed couple of weeks later when Chris Benoit died for real.
On the other end of the spectrum, Sting's WCW return where he dropped down on that rope was so great. I was at that show too. I saw a lot of WCW shows. Some were terrible, some okay, and some were legitimately great. That was a very good show.
What happened with Luger was they did have the Lex Express go around the country with Luger. But fans didn't take to it like the WWE hoped they would. So they dropped the idea and the Lex Express was later used by DX and was the one that got destroyed by Stone Cold Steve Austin. It was the Undertaker who picked Lesnar to end the streak. A couple of years before Wrestlemania 30. The WWE asked The Undertaker who he wanted to end his Wrestlemania streak and he said Brock Lesnar. WWE actually wanted TNA star Abyss to end the streak. Abyss owns the rights to his character and when he was out of contract with TNA. WWE tried to sign him, with the promise he would end the Undertakers streak. The idea being a monster ends The Undertakers streak. Instead he rejected them and signed a new contract with TNA. Sting was only considered when Abyss rejected the WWE.
Freaking Sheamus vs Bryan, I remember what happened, I was at a sports bar watching it, and Sheamus came out, and I told myself "They haven't started yet, I can run to pee and I won't miss anything" I come out and Sheamus is world champion. WTF!
I missed it too! I orderes it like 5 mins after WM started and they were like "We've already had a title change hands tonight!" I thought Rhodes had lost his IC title to Big Show...I was wrong.
Even worse about Sheamus vs Daniel Bryan match was the fact there was a match featuring Kelly Kelly and Maria Menounos. That match was several minutes (but lefts face it felt longer than it really did).
Actually the reason behind Fake Razor and Fake Diesel was a lawsuit. WWE was suing WCW over stealing the two characters as Nash and Hall were playing the same people with different names. But in order to push the lawsuit the WWE needed to show they were still using the characters. Funny aside, one result of the lawsuit was that IF Turner ever sold WCW Vince McMahon would have first right of refusal. So Fake Diesel and Fake Razor was one of the major reasons Vince McMahon ended up owning WCW.
As a Detroiter I will accept the comparison to Luton. Although we've been getting better, the city still isn't that great right now and there isn't a whole lot of "touristy" things
Goldberg vs. Lesnar at WM20, Orton vs. Lesnar at SS 2016, Roman Reigns vs. Rusev at SS 2016, Lesnar vs. Undertaker at WM30, and Sting vs. Triple H at WM31
Fun fact: Since Undertaker was set to debut at Survivor Series 1990, he was afraid for the weeks leading into it that Vince was gonna have him come out of the Gooker's egg.
To be fair, the reason the Brock/Taker match was as bad as it was was due to Taker's concussion that he suffered early on in the match. I'm sure if that hadn't happened the match would have been MUCH better than the one we got.
Wade Barrett vs Randy Orton at Survivor Series 2010. The "Free or Fired" angle. I was expecting a Cena heel turn or a surprising return at least. And all i got was a Cena supposedly getting fired, just to be on every single RAW after. Haven't really been hyped for a wrestling match since...
