Only Vince’s booking could ruin the company’s top face, top heel, most compelling gimmick, a world heavyweight title match on PPV and one of the most famous match stipulations ever made all in one shot
@@eLite-Tiss91I gotta ask, what’s the point of this comment? Nobody even mentioned AEW, but you’re also saying that it was Vince’s booking that made AEW look good in comparison, not anything that they actually did as a company.
My honorable mentions: 1. Wrestlemania 2000 (Even though it was great to see The Rock hit Rock Bottoms on all of the McMahons, including Stephanie) 2. Summerslam 1993 (Lex Luger defeated WWF Champion Yokozuna by count out but still had balloons and confetti falling as if he did win the title) 3. Money in the Bank 2019 (Brock Lesnar out of nowhere runs down to the ring as Mustafa Ali was about to retrieve the briefcase, knocks Ali off, and climbs the ladder to retrieve the briefcase and win while the other competitors were killing each other in that match.) 4. Wrestlemania 34 (No matter who won between Brock and Roman, fans were going to jeer and boo anyway)
If shit didn't happen with the Vince allegations, TKO Merge, and the Final Boss turn, the ending to 39 and waiting til 40 would have been so significantly worse and NOT worth the wait.
Backlash 2018 is another one. When fans realized that Samoa Joe and Roman Reigns were main eventing the show, they decided to tune out and walk out of the arena mid match.
I remember the great American bash ending legit cried because I thought undertaker had killed Paul bear. My mom held me for almost 2 hours because I had cried.
Dishonorable mention to royal rumble 2022 for being a really boring rumble (tag team rumble) and having a boring winner. Making a rumble boring in the modern age is criminal.
I've honestly found the last few Rumbles boring. Which is just a shame really as it was always the match I most looked forward too in the year. Its now just full of the exact same spots every year, usually atleadt a few surprise entrants that go nowhere and have no real point to them and usually also just have a very predictable and telegraphed winner.
The worst part of the 2018 Hell in a Cell is that whatever spot that took Roman and Braun down took them out for like 8 minutes to allow the Ziggles/McIntyre vs Ambrose/Rollins mini match to take place outside the cell. Then after those four had finished that's when Lesnar's music hits and we saw Roman and Braun had been laying around the entire time.
Nothing against Miz but in my personal opinion, he never had any business being in the main event of WrestleMania. Never really saw him as a main event caliber talent. The midcard is where it’s at for him.
Hell In A Cell 2019 just proved that Vince did not care about the product anymore, he was getting more and more senile with his ridiculous booking to the point it made the product unwatchable.
Bray and Vince never meshed well unfortunately. No idea what Vince had against the guy, but Cena absolutely burying him during their half year feud is probably a good place to look. Vince always sided with his picked golden geese and the ones that abused that status and politicked with it definitely have a pattern no matter the era. Their opponents rarely ever got to climb back up the card and if they did, they were never utilized or booked properly. Bray found a way to rebound with The Fiend, Vince never understood The Fiend, they clashed over how to use and book The Fiend. The persona was simply used far too much, which I assume is a Vince decision based on merchandise sales. Bray seemed to want The Fiend to be more of special attraction, like Finn Balor and The Demon. Vince wanted the merchandise sales, plus more Fiend meant less Bray promo time in the grand scheme of things. I very well could be connecting dots that don't exist or looking far too much into it, but we do know that the two of them could never agree on a lot of things.
I feel bad for Roman back then for winning the Rumble. It was Vinces fault, but seeing Roman keep smiling but his Eyes showing his discomford in this Situation... it just hurts. Glad to see how beloved he is today. Dude earned it
It didn’t help the fact that the company did a pitiful job with Roman’s booking prior to his controversial win at the 2015 rumble whether if it was the fact that he clearly was nowhere near ready to be as pushed as fast as he was, his boring character work and the god-awful promos he was given.
Yes it was way too early for Roman to get this big spot. Fans just started to accept him during his hiatous because of his illness. But we give him that he never gave up so his spot nowadays is indeed earned.🎉
It was the fans fault for being dumb enough to think that Daniel Bryan should have won and even dumber to think he would have gone over Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 31 when that wasn't even close to being realistic
@@yomamasofat77 as much as we all love Batista he was just a victim of bad booking and bad timing during his return 2014. I’m pretty sure Batista himself made it clear that he didn’t even want to win the royal rumble nor did he even wanted to come back as a babyface.
8:23 wrong, wrong WRONG WRONG WRONG! The stipulation was, as hinted by Paul Heyman, if Undertaker didn't do the right thing (which was throw to the Dudleyz) he would bury Bearer in cement. Not if the Undertaker LOST. Undertaker won, stopped the Cement himself, but pulled the lever to kill Bearer anyway
Correct. Heyman was going to bury Bearer in cement, but the Undertaker used his newly-regained supernatural powers to shoot a lightning bolt at Heyman.
As if anything Hogan was involved in didn't involve his ego lol. This is the same guy that tried to politic Undertaker out of the game all because of his rising popularity.
Notice how most of theses happened in the 2010's.... And i just watch the Royal Rumble again this year notice how the top 6 of that Rumble are bigger names now...compared to 2010's one and done
It was Goldbergs fault for the Summerslam 03 finish. Triple H was going to drop it to him, but there was a tour of Australia after Sslam and Vince wanted a champion on a rare Australian show. Goldberg didn't want to travel, so that's why it went down like that.
I hate to keep bringing this up, but I keep hearing this, and it's annoying that everyone gets it wrong. HIAC 2019 didn't end in a disqualification. It was a ref stoppage. The referee didn't disqualify Seth Rollins, he stopped the match out of fear for Bray's safety. Kevin Owens won the NXT Title the same way. I'm not saying it was a good match or a good idea, it wasn't, but it wasn't a DQ.
It is indeed the dumbest ending to a PPV/PLE. The whole point of Hell In A Cell is that there are no DQ's. So to end a DQ-less match with a DQ defeats the whole purpose of the match. It was obvious to everyone that they had booked themselves into a corner with that match. They didn't want Seth to lose the belt, but they also didn't want to undermind their big spooky Fiend character and have him come out of the match looking weak. They could have found a way to book the match to achieve both, but the timing of the storyline was incredibly unfortunate with HIAC as their next big show. They were backed into a corner, and the only way out that they could come up with was the worst one. It was one of those trainwrecks that they should've seen coming, but somehow they didn't. They only realized it until after both trains were on the same track and chugging toward each other, and they had no choice but to watch helplessly as the disaster happened.
I really loved the ending of WM9 as a huge Fan of the Hulkster back in the days. And most of the Fans also liked the ending. So I can't understand why it's even up here.😅 If the only reason a ppv finally is bad, because of an unexpected ending than all of this is bullshxt.😂 So leave the classics out of this list, there have been way more worst endings than wm9.
@@sgefrascz8123 That ending made zero sense and it invalidated the entire "New Generation" thing. On the night, casual fans liked it, but given what it led to (which was pretty much Hulk spitting on the belt in Japan), it really was a bad idea in hindsight. Hogan should have won the tag belts with Brutus instead.
Yeah, The Rock definitely wasn't happy about getting booed while playing a hard line Babyface along with his cousin. But that's just what happens when fans see another Super Cena in the making
Yes of course,for Same Places in Pennsylvania. Royal Rumble 2014 at Pittsburgh in PPG Paints Arena While Royal Rumble 2015 at Philadelphia in Wells Fargo Center.
I was at the 2015 Royal Rumble. I'll never forget the eerie silence when Dean Ambrose got eliminated, followed by the loudest boos I've ever heard because we all collectively realized our worst nightmare was about to come true
I was in the crowd for Hell in a cell 2019. We all had such high hopes for the main event after the excellent opening match. We booed Seth because he had become a WWE bootlicker who brags about how much money he makes.
As always, Cultaholic gets it wrong. the GAB 2004 main event was that if Taker WON Heyman would bury Bearer in concrete. The idea was that Heyman wanted to force Taker to do something he could never do, surrender.
The idea that Summer Slam 2003 had a bad ending really needs to die. It was an Elimination Chamber match where Goldberg eliminated three main event wrestlers in little over three minutes. Evolution was still in its early days and their aura of success was highly dependent on Triple H being the top heel. And WWE were supposed to have four of their biggest stars, including their top heel, get squashed by Goldberg in less than six minutes? Triple H was only 34, in the prime of his career and he needed to be brushed aside for a man whose career peaked in 1998 and couldn’t work a competitive match? What was Goldberg even going to do after winning that Elimination Chamber? He would have just buried every potential opponent he had for the remainder of the year. Having him lose in a multi man match, following interference was the best way to end his streak without diminishing him and yes that streak needed to be broken. Booking him in three minute squash matches worked when he was starting out. That strategy was NEVER going to translate into a long term main event run. Everyone wanted a dream match with Austin, was Stone Cold going to lay down after five moves? Hell no. The viewers already voted with their remotes in 2000 that Triple H was more must-see than Goldberg. Summer Slam 2003 was exactly the right call. Triple H should have dropped the belt to Booker T that year and no one else.
WM9's ending was great at the time. Hogan was still #1 and it got the belt on him. It was also a shock to people tuning in Monday night. There was no internet so the only way to see what happened was to order the encore.
39 was the first time I had a visceral reaction to wrestling in a long time. Was watching it in discord with a buddy and i was like, I gotta walk away for a bit.
Yeah. The only way a double knockout might make sense inside Hell-in-a-Cell is if both competitors are passed out, their faces gushing blood, and are fading due from excess loss and can't continue anymore. Both beaten a pulp so bad and bleeding, neither can even answer a twenty count at least.
The Goldberg Summerslam I think has always been overhated. He ran through 4 other guys who are all considered legends now basically like nothing. And essentially beat himself by spearing a sledgehammer (which honestly made more physical sense then Brets hidden armor plate in WCW) with no one getting any real offense on him. The followup was a more then a bit fumbled of course, but the EC itself was a decent enough way to extend the story.
The ending of WrestleMania 9 was amazing and saved the whole ppv plus the pop was insane. Anyone that says otherwise is ignorant to the fact or just plain lying.
I've been trying to forget about that 2019 HIAC main event ending. Sacramento's WWE fans turned on that match and rightly so. Don't even get me started on how WrestleMania IX ended.
2019 Hell in a Cell is probably Vince’s most unforgivable booking mistake. Ruined the Fiend’s momentum and Seth’s baby face run in one match. Seth had to reinvent himself multiple times to recover from this and Bray ended up getting released not even 2 years later. It was so awful all around.
Marc Mero was accompanied by Sable the last time I attended a wwf event. And that’s absolutely fine by me. I haven’t even watched a minute of the garbage in nearly 20 years
I was at GAB 2004 (not bragging) and, while not on the same level, the reaction to JBL winning was akin to the streak ending. It vacuumed the air out of the building.
What's more worse about HIAC 2019 than Wrestlemania 27 is that the wrestling stopped via DQ in a HIAC match THAT'S NO DQ AT LEAST WITH MANIA 27 THE WRESTLING STOPPED BUT THEN IT WENT BACK ON AGAIN. HIAC 2019 SHOULD'VE JUST CONTINUED ON AND IF THEY NEED TO STOP THE MATCH FOR THE SAFETY OF THE WRESTLERS THEN DON'T SAY THE MATCH IS A DAMN DQ! Sigh god 😞😩🙄. But both of those ppv endings to me are definitely are tied at number 1 for me
Wrestlemania 9 ending was great, the crowd popped louder than ever. Everyone went home happy and loved it. It's the Hogan nonsense afterwards that really made it garbage and looked back on as crap.
This is a list for critics, by critics. They think they are above "casual fans". They were all wrong, they didn't realize 'the ramifications ' of what just happened. Vince catered to the global audience for many reasons, but he became particularly spiteful towards internet dwellers because they try and ruin his show about people in spandex pretending to fight by making everything so deftly serious. The Hogan ending was great, but the Internet would have you think it was one of the worst things ever. All wrestlers have egos, not just Hogan. Him getting his way is the result of him having more credibility than others who wanted things another way. Bret was an emergency champion lol, in 1993 they weren't looking at him as a company leader and they jumped at the chance to have Hogan hold the belt again, and rightly so. It was basically like a money in the bank cash in before it was a thing. They say it's "wrong", but making the crowd happy even just for one day is worth the risk that these smarks would never have the gonads to understand.
@@TheRealAhoy You know what else would have made the crowd happy? Letting Bret win. Hell, it would have been great even having Hogan and Brutus beat Money Inc. for the tag team championships (like Hogan actually did in 2002 with Edge), and maybe have them become the main event belts like some NWA territories used to do. 1993 was all about the *New* Generation, and having Bret lose the title to Yoko just so Hogan could win it seconds later because Mr. Fuji randomly challenged him was just shortsighted.
@@tafua_a 1993 was about navigating the steroid scandal. New Gen wasn't serious until 94 with Bret becoming a certified main eventer and Shawn basically climbing a ladder up to that spot. The golden era of wwe lasted from 84 to 92, it's a bit much to expect 3 months in to a new vision to completely abandon the stability there was and launch into brand new ethos' completely. Some of you I swear it's like you've never experienced a chance of decade. For the first year and a half of a decade nothing changes all too much, things only start to be noticeable 2 years in to the new decade. The expectations you have on wwe are bizarre and the spite is completely unloving and lacking empathy. Expecting them to just betray their foundation 4 months in because you're impatient for an initiative to bloom is selfish af. The fans were elated that Hulk won, who cares? Bret was established as a proper main eventer a year later.
@@TheRealAhoy Hogan wasn't even advertised as the main event. If they just had him and Brutus win the tag belts and let Bret retain against Yokozuna, the fans would have still left happy, and it wouldn't have been a "betrayal to their foundation". Especially since after that match, Hogan barely showed up on WWF TV, that's not really stability now, is it?
@@tafua_a Crazy, it's like you're so unprepared for the idea of surprises happening in wrestling, "wasn't advertised for the main event". Yes, he was a surprise, a surprise that crowd very much liked. You have the luxury of analysing stuff 30 years after it happened and seeing the 30 years of stuff connected to it, they didn't, they went with their gut. On the day, it worked, long term not as much as they would have hoped for but they sent the crowd home happy from a largely subpar WrestleMania. It bumped up that Mania at least 2/10, but people don't like to admit that.
I was at HIAC 2018, as Brock was walking towards the ring we were getting texts from friends that the show on the network had already ended. Such a mockery of the most dangerous match to have the participants taken out like that
