10 Times WWE Benefitted From Their Bad Booking | partsFUNknown
Isn't it annoying when WWE benefitted from their bad decisions? Tempest thinks so. Here are 10 times WWE benefitted from their bad booking but let us know in the comments below if there are any you think we've missed!
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Isn't it annoying when WWE benefitted from their bad decisions? Tempest thinks so. Here are 10 times WWE benefitted from their bad booking but let us know in the comments below if there are any you think we've missed!
00:00 - Start
01:13 - 10
2:30 - 9
3:25 - 8
4:33 - 7
5:34 - 6
6:38 - 5
7:41 - 4
8:53 - 3
9:58 - 2
11:09 - 1
CAN YOU NAME EVERY WWE CHAMPION? | Survival Series - https://youtu.be/tR4m9shHZoQ
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00:00 "Righteous indignation is typically defined as the reactive emotion of anger over perceived
00:05 mistreatment, insults, or malice of another."
00:08 This is a feeling many wrestling fans have been made to feel over the years because of
00:11 the continued incompetence of WWE, and I don't know about you, but sometimes I need that
00:16 feeling, that outlet for my rage.
00:19 Yes, therapy would be more constructive, thank you for asking, but this is why it is so annoying
00:25 when WWE manages to benefit from their own incompetence.
00:29 I need my rage outlet, dammit!
00:31 I can't go back to playing Overwatch, I can't go back!
00:35 F*** Widowmaker bulls***!
00:36 Anyway, what was I saying?
00:38 WWE from time to time would luck into a fantastic moment or swelling of fan support for one
00:43 wrestler or a group in particular because seeing WWE fumble the booking bag with Daniel
00:48 Bryan one more time was simply the last straw.
00:51 Well here we will look at when WWE got bailed out when they didn't deserve to be.
00:54 I'm the righteously indignant Tempest hailing from partsFUNknown, and these are 10 times
00:59 WWE benefited from their bad booking.
01:01 But before we get on with our list, make sure of course that you like this video, subscribe,
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01:13 Number 10, Damien Mizdow Do you remember Damien Mizdow?
01:17 The guy that was Mr. Money in the Bank a year earlier and was one of the great intellectual
01:21 heels of the PG era?
01:22 Well WWE sure pulled the plug on his ascent hard when they fed him and the contract to
01:26 John Cena on an episode of Raw in late 2013.
01:29 From there, things wouldn't pick up for old Damien until it appeared to hit rock bottom
01:33 for him in 2014.
01:35 Not literally of course, that would be on the January 11th, 2013 Smackdown.
01:39 But at the end of 2014, Damien's standout was paired with The Miz as his stunt devil.
01:45 This damning idea that saw Damien play second fiddle to The Miz wasn't exactly where people
01:49 would have thought he would be a year out from cashing in the Money in the Bank briefcase,
01:53 but hot dog if the newly dubbed Damien Mizdow didn't put 110% effort into this ridiculous
02:00 gimmick.
02:01 He would mimic Miz's every move while wrestling and got so much more over with the audience
02:05 than he had ever been previously.
02:07 There's no way the people in charge could have thought this gimmick would have worked
02:10 as well as it did as evidenced by their chance to double down on it after WrestleMania 31
02:15 with Mizdow wrestling Miz for the right to be called The Miz.
02:19 He should have won!
02:20 He'd have been such a better Miz than The Miz.
02:23 But he didn't and he was released a year later.
02:26 That run he had however, while it lasted, mwah!
02:29 Brilliance.
02:30 9.
02:31 The Montreal Screwjob
02:33 On one hand, you could argue that purely in a kayfabe sense, booking Shawn Michaels vs.
02:37 Bret Hart for Survivor Series 1997 was a fine idea.
02:41 That sure seemed like the direction to go after Summerslam, but then you remembered
02:44 that this kayfabe business exists in a very not kayfabe world and then you realized that
02:49 this was very bad booking indeed.
02:51 I won't bore you with the details of the Montreal Screwjob, if you haven't heard of it, what
02:55 are you doing here?
02:56 But the long-term benefits of this famous bit of wrestling backstabbing truly are incalculable.
03:01 Born out of this bit of nonsense was the Mr. McMahon character, the perfect antagonist
03:06 to the emerging top babyface Steve Austin.
03:09 Without this development, it is difficult to say whether the WWF would have beaten WCW
03:13 in the Monday Night War at all.
03:14 The Austin McMahon rivalry remains one of the most important rivalries in WWE history,
03:19 and it wouldn't have happened without that night in Montreal making Vince McMahon the
03:22 most hated villain in wrestling.
03:25 8.
03:26 The Heist of the Century
03:27 This sure is a weird one because this simply is a case of WWE booking themselves into a
03:31 corner and then at the last minute deciding "fine, we'll do something else."
03:36 Leading into WrestleMania 31, Roman Reigns was the least over Mania main eventer in history
03:41 to that point, and isn't that a funny thing to say today?
03:44 The fans almost unanimously did not want to see the future Tribal Chief be the one to
03:48 defeat Brock Lesnar to win the WWE Championship, but WWE's own stubbornness took them to
03:53 Mania with that plan.
03:55 Until the week of the show, the word was Brock Lesnar was leaving WWE to make another run
03:59 at a UFC comeback, so keeping the belt on him seemed unlikely.
04:03 Then Brock announced that he was staying, so all of a sudden there was hope that he
04:06 could retain the title.
04:08 Unfortunately for fans, Brock had been champion since Summerslam and a part-time champion
04:12 wasn't a permanent plan at that time, and isn't that a funny thing to say today?
04:16 WWE's final answer to get them out of this particularly poorly booked WrestleMania main
04:20 event was leaving fans with one of the best WrestleMania moments of all time with Seth
04:26 Rollins cashing in his Money in the Bank contract and stealing the title out from under Brock
04:30 and Roman in the Heist of the Century.
04:33 7.
04:34 The Undertaker's Early Streak Matches
04:36 The Undertaker's WrestleMania streak is one of the most legendary and prolific creations
04:40 in WWE history, but damned are WWE if they try to tell you that this was always the plan.
04:45 I sure won't listen to that nonsense when there's a DQ win in there.
04:48 But while the streak as a whole can be looked at as one of the greatest long-term creations
04:52 WWE ever had, there are certainly a number of questionable steps taken along the way
04:56 when isolated.
04:58 Giant Gonzalez losing by DQ to set up a big blow-off match at Summerslam doesn't really
05:01 make much sense when you think about it.
05:03 The Undertaker beating Triple H at WrestleMania X-Seven when Triple H had just beaten number
05:07 one contender and soon-to-be-WWF champion Steve Austin a month earlier doesn't really
05:12 make much sense when you think about it.
05:13 But these things are absolutely justifiable when looked at in a broader context because
05:18 these wins at WrestleMania gave WWE its biggest selling point for each WrestleMania for nearly
05:23 a decade with the creation of the streak.
05:26 And in the grand scheme of things, did we really need to see another Triple H win at
05:29 WrestleMania or have Giant Gonzalez have his hand raised in victory?
05:32 No, we did not.
05:34 Number 6 - New Day's Terrible Babyface Run
05:37 Alright now we're getting into the sh*t.
05:40 WWE is quick to name the New Day as one of the greatest factions in history now, but
05:44 they sure weren't as quick to show you highlights of the group's first six months.
05:47 That's because there were no highlights from their first six months.
05:50 The New Day were a horribly bland babyface act out the gate, with their power of positivity
05:55 shtick not at all resonating with people who had been watching Kofi Kingston and Big E
05:59 be generic babyfaces for so long.
06:02 The power of the WWE fans' negativity reached its crescendo at WrestleMania 31, where fans
06:07 continued to chant "New Day Sucks!
06:10 New Day Sucks!" finally prompting WWE to allow the group to turn heel, which catapulted
06:16 them to the success they were destined to achieve.
06:18 The New Day's heel run consisted of them telling fans to be positive, only to be booed,
06:23 which only then churned Xavier Woods into a fit of very not-positive rage.
06:27 By the time they arrived at Summerslam 2015, they were the most popular act on the show
06:31 as a result of their impeccable character work, only made possible by a horrendous babyface
06:37 run to start.
06:38 5.
06:39 Rocky Maivia's Terrible Babyface Run
06:41 The same story as the New Day, but on a much larger scale.
06:45 Rocky Maivia did not resonate with the WWF fans when he arrived on the scene in 1996.
06:50 He was a smiling, white meat, mom and pop, apple pie babyface ready to give it 110% and
06:56 prove why he's the Intercontinental Champion.
06:58 And when you have badass Steve Austin quickly becoming the most popular star wrestling had
07:02 ever seen on the same show, yeah it doesn't take much brainpower to figure out why the
07:06 fans started to chant "Rocky Sucks."
07:09 This was the late 90s, and not the world that could be engrossed by this type of character.
07:13 But where WWE benefited from their poor attempt at booking a future babyface star is when
07:17 they finally released the shackles from young Rocky and allowed him to become The Rock,
07:22 the most charismatic talker they have ever had and one of the best heel promos in WWE
07:27 history.
07:28 I don't need you to give a history lesson on The Rock, you all know who he is, and don't
07:31 you lie to me because I have proof.
07:34 This might be the biggest case of WWE's benefit from their own failure because honestly, how
07:38 much more can you benefit than ending up with The Rock?
07:42 4.
07:43 Becky Lynch Turns Heel
07:44 God this whole saga feels like it was yesterday, and also a million years ago.
07:49 Becky Lynch was a popular babyface star on Smackdown in 2018 who did what a good contender
07:53 should do and worked her way up the ranks by beating the rest of the roster until she
07:57 had earned a title match at Summerslam.
07:59 Of course, it was only then that Charlotte Flair was unfairly added to her title match
08:02 (boy does that ever sound familiar) and steal the pin away from her to win the title.
08:07 Now if I didn't know better, that sure would sound like Becky was being wronged and thus
08:11 was the hero of this story, but not in WWE.
08:14 WWE instead tried to portray Charlotte as the hero, while Becky turned sour, attacking
08:18 not only Charlotte after the match, but the fans verbally on the following Smackdown.
08:23 She said the fans never supported her, which was categorically not true, and was so not
08:28 true in fact, that the fans forced WWE's hand to make Becky Lynch a no-nonsense, badass
08:34 champion of the people.
08:35 WWE was very resistant to this, and this wasn't a change made overnight, but they did end
08:40 up with one of their most organically popular stars in quite some time out of it, and it
08:44 stands to reason that Becky would not have been this popular at this level had the fans
08:49 not had to fight for her to be their champion.
08:52 3.
08:53 WWE Can't Book Bray Wyatt
08:56 Holy s***, which time do you want to talk about?
08:59 Bray Wyatt has had a difficult go of things over the years, thanks to his character requiring
09:02 a bit more brainpower to book than your average wrestling character.
09:05 Just about everything after he lost to John Cena at WrestleMania 30 was pretty pants,
09:10 whether it be his constant ramblings about buzzards, the projected maggots, the dirty
09:14 refrigerator, Sister Abigail, it was all just so bad.
09:19 But thankfully we live in a world where Bray Wyatt is a creative genius, and had we not
09:23 been forced to sit through those years upon years of bad booking of Bray, we wouldn't
09:28 have been gifted the Firefly Funhouse, a deconstruction of Wyatt's years of misuse by the company
09:33 and the most interesting work he had done since his days as a cult leader.
09:36 Unfortunately, the bad booking doesn't stop there, as WWE felt the need to treat their
09:40 fans the way a kid treats a whack-a-mole, feeding the fiend to Goldberg in 2020, but
09:44 again, at the very least, this absolute creative booking blunder freed Wyatt up to do the
09:49 Firefly Funhouse match at WrestleMania 36.
09:53 Even when WWE tries their hardest to ruin Wyatt's day, he always found a way to come
09:57 back.
09:58 2.
09:59 Sheamus Beats Daniel Bryan in 18 Seconds
10:01 WWE thought they were being real funny at WrestleMania 28, this show being attended
10:06 by many of the most hardcore wrestling fans in the world and watched by over a million
10:10 more at home, fans that had paid their money to see the matches that had been advertised,
10:14 including but not limited to Daniel Bryan vs Sheamus for the World Heavyweight Championship,
10:18 a match WWE decided fans just weren't going to get a chance to see on this night, as they
10:22 had Sheamus beat Bryan in 18 seconds as the Super Mario Sunshine Game Over music played
10:27 over top of it.
10:29 In one way, WWE greatly did not benefit from this, as Sheamus never got off the ground
10:33 as World Champion because of this booking fiasco, as so many fans held Bryan in such
10:38 high regard.
10:39 Where the benefit did come, however, is in the groundswell of support for Daniel Bryan
10:43 himself.
10:44 Bryan had been enjoying a stellar reign as World Heavyweight Champion prior to Mania,
10:47 but this support made it impossible for Bryan to slip back down the card.
10:51 If it wasn't over before, this whole incident made the "Yes" chant the phenomenon it
10:55 became.
10:56 Whether it was his fantastic feud with CM Punk, his team with future mayor f***head
11:00 Kane or his WWE title match with John Cena at Summerslam, a decisive WrestleMania loss
11:05 may have been the best thing to happen to Bryan.
11:08 That is until…
11:09 Number 1.
11:10 Batista Wins The 2014 Royal Rumble Those in WWE will try to tell you that the
11:15 main event of WrestleMania 30 was a brilliantly told story executed to perfection by the uber-talented
11:19 creative minds of those at the top.
11:21 Of course, anyone who lived through the "Yes" movement knows that this is not the case.
11:25 In the real world, WWE had no interest in paying off the Daniel Bryan vs. The Authority
11:30 storyline…
11:31 Maybe ever.
11:32 They wanted Bryan to wrestle Sheamus at WrestleMania.
11:35 Again!
11:36 And knowing them, they probably would have pulled the rug out from under them for a third
11:39 time.
11:40 But no, once Batista won the Royal Rumble in 2014, the fans made it their mission to
11:44 campaign for Bryan to compete at WrestleMania in nothing less than the main event.
11:48 It is incomprehensible to me that WWE didn't plan to pay off Bryan's story, but their
11:53 booking incompetence made for a legitimate fan-driven storyline that made for an even
11:58 more cathartic moment when Bryan finally did win the WWE World Heavyweight Championship
12:02 at WrestleMania.
12:03 It wasn't on purpose, but WWE's bad booking made for one of the best moments in their
12:07 history, so really, who can be righteously indignant about that?
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